XS Einstein@Home Team hits 100,000,000
Last edited by PoppaGeek; 08-19-2013 at 12:27 PM.
I like large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate
Yeah! Go team XS
on a side note werdwerdus hit1,000,000
Eh, my "beating" is only gonna get worse. High temps predicted for next 2 weeks.
Nice numbers SC.
@werdwerdus
Xtreme Systems put up great daily numbers yesterday
1,292,148 ... is a new daily high!
As soon as a couple more folks join in we can easily take #2 in the daily scores and from there #1 is right around the corner ... seriously.
Any and all are welcome, there is work for GPUs and CPUs of all flavors - from Android to AMD and Intel - including Intel iGPU, Nvidia. Some many operating systems to choose from ... 32 and 64 bit for both Win and Linux, MAC OS X for both Intel and old PPC, did I mention Android in NEON and VFP variants, how about some Linux ARM just in case you're experimenting with a Rasberry Pi?
This project has THE best coverage when it comes to what hardware and software can be used to crunch there.
Here's a link to the home page just in case you want to look into the project some more
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/index.php
Let us know if you have any questions about the goals of the project, how to join, how to optimize your points, hey, just drop a line to say Hi :-)
Last edited by Snow Crash; 10-01-2013 at 10:41 PM.
Links to some Info and articles on E@H science projects.
Info on the Arecibo Radio Pulsar Search
Science article about the first E@H pulsar discovery
Additional material about the first E@H pulsar discoveryEinstein@Home (1) (E@H) is a volunteer distributed computing project (2).Members
of the public sign up their home or office computers (hosts), which automatically download
work units from the servers, carry out analyses when idle, and return results. These are automatically validated
by comparison with results for the same work unit produced by a different volunteer?s host. More
than 250,000 individuals from 192 countries have contributed; each week about 100,000 different computers
download work. The aggregate computational power (0.25 Pflop/s) is on par with the largest
supercomputers. E@H?s primary goal is to detect gravitational waves from rapidly spinning neutron
stars in data from Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and VIRGO (1).
Article on E@Hs current GW search (Gravitational Wave)
Technical paper on GC search method
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What is a radio pulsar?
When a massive star uses up all its nuclear fuel for energy production, it collapses under its own weight. The core of the star gets compressed so much that the protons and electrons within it combine to become neutrons. The resulting object is called a neutron star. (If the neutron star weighs more than two or three solar masses, it collapses further and forms a black hole.)
Radio pulsars are neutron stars with an immensely strong magnetic field. They rotate and accelerate electrons in their vicinity to close to the speed of light. These electrons emit polarized light (called coherent curvature radiation) in a narrow cone. When this cone sweeps across the line of sight to Earth, we see the radio emission brighten regularly, just like a lighthouse. Some radio pulsars are also seen in visible light, X- and gamma rays.
So far, pulsars have been the primary way that neutron stars can be observed. About 1800 of them are known today. Only a tiny fraction of pulsars is in binary systems where their masses can be determined. The known sample is not large enough to determine a firm upper mass limit, which would in turn give more detailed insight into the physics of such extremely dense forms of matter.
Last edited by PoppaGeek; 10-02-2013 at 02:50 AM.
About Einstein@Home
Thank you for your interest in Einstein@Home!
Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite. Einstein@Home volunteers have already discovered more than three dozens new neutron stars, and we hope to find many more in the future. Our long-term goal is to make the first direct detections of gravitational-wave emission from spinning neutron stars. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but have never been directly detected. Such observations would open up a new window on the universe, and usher in a new era in astronomy.
To learn more about Einstein@Home, please explore the links under "Science information and progress reports" below, or read some of the popular articles linked from "Einstein@Home in the News" below.
If you want to participate, please follow the "Join Einstein@Home" instructions below. It takes just a minute or two to sign up, and little or no maintenance to keep Einstein@Home running. Einstein@Home is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh OS X computers.
Bruce Allen
Director of Einstein@Home; Director, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Hannover; Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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