EINSTEIN@HOME - Team FreeBSD
A team dedicated to the users of FreeBSD running BOINC under linux compatibility mode, or a native FreeBSD BOINC build. Team FreeBSD is dedicated to users of FreeBSD, but not limited to JUST the users. Anyone with the interest in developing a community of people interested in technology, open standards, NIX or BSD based operating systems are welcome and encouraged to earn credits and share ideas and conversation.
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26 March, 2012 08:39 CST6CDTWelcome to our team binyo66, you are among friends! Keep your boxes blazed!
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27 January, 2012 08:37 CST6CDTWelcome to our team rick, you are among friends! Keep your boxes blazed!
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EINSTEIN@HOME Discovers a Second New Radio Pulsar from the Arecibo Observatory
10 November, 2011 16:16 CST6CDT| 11/08/2011 04:56 AM |
| Einstein@Home discovers a second new radio pulsar in Arecibo "Mock" data! |
| Einstein@Home has discovered a fourth new radio pulsar, J1952+25, in data from the Arecibo Observatory. This is the second Einstein@Home discovery in Arecibo data taken with the new "Mock" back-end spectrometer. Further details about the newly-discovered pulsar can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course. Congratulations to our volunteers, and thank you for contributing to Einstein@Home! We have found 14 radio pulsars so far, and I am also optimistic about our prospects for discovering new gamma-ray pulsars and continuous gravitational-wave sources. Bruce Allen Director, Einstein@Home |
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EINSTEIN@HOME Discovers a New Radio Pulsar from the Arecibo Observatory
27 October, 2011 17:04 CST6CDTI am delighted to announce that Einstein@Home has discovered a third new radio pulsar in data from the Arecibo Observatory. This is the first Einstein@Home discovery in Arecibo data taken with the new "Mock" back-end spectrometer. The pulsar is unusually interesting, as is a short-period (millisecond) pulsar in a binary system. Further details about the newly-discovered pulsar can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course. Congratulations to our volunteers, and thank you for contributing to Einstein@Home! Bruce Allen Director, Einstein@Home
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Einstein@Home currently processes PALFA Mock spectrometer data from Arecibo Observatory. This search runs is called "BRP4" (short for Binary Radio Pulsar search #4). It uses the computing power donated by volunteers from all over the world to search these data for radio pulsars in binary orbits. Thanks to the enormous amount of donated computing power Einstein@Home conducts the search with the highest sensitivity to pulsars in very tight binary systems.
[http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/BRP4_discoveries/]
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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:
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 a dozen 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.
My name is Andy Wright - the founder, but really the creator of Team FreeBSD. If you want me to add any links, or have any questions or inclinations for such things related to our group (or to just say hi) - send me an e-mail: einstein@extracted.org or Skype name: extracted
''It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure'' -- Albert Einstein
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Einstein@Home GPU Application for ATI/AMD Graphics Cards
After more than a year of work by Oliver Bock, Bernd Machenschalk, Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein and other developers, we are pleased to announce the release of the first Einstein@Home application for ATI/AMD Graphics Cards. This OpenCL application, which searches Arecibo data for new radio pulsars, is about a factor of ten faster than the same search running on a typical CPU. The application is currently available for Windows and Linux computers with Radeon HD 5000 or better graphics cards. We hope to have a version for Macintosh (Apple OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion) sometime this summer, but there are still some problems that need to be fixed or worked around. Volunteers who wish to run this application will need to install version 7.0.27 or later of the BOINC client. Please see this thread for more information, or if you want to ask questions. Many thanks to the AMD/ATI team for their support in the OpenCL software development effort. Bruce Allen Director, Einstein@Home
05/15/2012 03:36 AM
Einstein@Home volunteers discover three new radio pulsars in Arecibo data
Einstein@Home volunteers have discovered three new radio pulsars (J1901+0510, J1858+0319, and J1857+0259) in Arecibo PALFA data! Congratulations to:
- John A. Lorimer Jr. (USA)
- Ugur Munir Kir, Guzel Sanatlar Saatchi & Saatchi (Turkey)
- Philipp Kählitz (Germany)
- Termit (Russia)
- Philemon1752 (Switzerland)
- edgen (Russia)
Further details about these and our other newly-discovered pulsars can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course.
Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home