Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. They 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. The 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 their first test of Einstein@home, they are repeating this search with some small technical changes. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
4:05 AM
