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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Arecibo Radio Telescope & Welcome to our Team!

The 305 meter Radio Telescope

"Those who see the Arecibo radio telescope for the first time are astounded by the enormousness of the reflecting surface, or radio mirror. The huge "dish" is 305 m (1000 feet) in diameter, 167 feet deep, and covers an area of about twenty acres. The surface is made of almost 40,000 perforated aluminum panels, each measuring about 3 feet by 6 feet, supported by a network of steel cables strung across the underlying karst sinkhole. It is a spherical (not parabolic) reflector ." - [full article @ naic.edu]

Arecibo Observatory Platform Tour Video

Einstein@Home Arecibo Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Re-)Detections:

So far, the search has found:

• 2 detections of 1 NEW pulsar
• 242 re-detections of 123 known pulsars
• 20 MSP re-detections of 8 known MSPs

[(re-)detections information]

Welcome to our team, kh!  You are among friends!

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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:

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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05/15/2012 07:21 AM
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