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19 years 4 months ago #5686 by albertw
Einstein@home was created by albertw
Hi,

Not sure if they are accepting new testers at the moment or not, but some of you may want to visit the site anyway.

Cheers,
~Al

Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to
search for spinning compact stars (such as pulsars) using data
from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. We plan to deploy
a production version of Einstein@home around the end of 2004, as part
of the American Physical Society's World Year of Physics 2005
activities.

We have just completed our first test release of Einstein@home, and
would like to solicit your help in testing it. Please be aware that
this is not a production version of Einstein@home: it is an early
(alpha) test release, which has undergone only limited testing within
the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and GEO project.

We would be grateful for your help in testing this first Einstein@home
release. If you would like to help us, please go to
einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ and click on the 'Download BOINC' link.
Download and run BOINC, and when prompted, enter:
<snip>
Register to get your own account set up.
</snip>
At the URL above, use the 'Your account' link to set preferences about
when Einstein@home will run on your computer, change your account name,
view your pending credits, upload a photo for our picture gallery, etc.

Since this is our first (alpha test, pre-production) Einstein@home
release, we are only accepting a limited number of users, who have
indicated an interest in helping. During the next few months, as we
continue and complete our testing, we will release new versions of
Einstein@home, and accept more and more users. If all goes well, we
hope to 'throw open the doors' near the end of 2004.

This first test of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over
the entire sky, using the ten most sensitive hours of data from LIGO's
second science run, S2. This same data has already been analyzed
using a very powerful dedicated supercomputing cluster (nothing
significant was found). For our first test of Einstein@home, we are
repeating this search with some small technical changes.

If you experience problems with Einstein@home or have suggestions,
please post a question on the message board at the URL above.

Sincerely,
Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Albert White MSc FRAS
Chairperson, International Dark Sky Association - Irish Section
www.darksky.ie/

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