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.
http://einstein.extracted.org
EINSTEIN@HOME Project Status
08 September, 2008 16:38
I live in La Crosse, WI on the other side of the State from Milwaukee Wisconsin where this project is being coordinated.
I am involved in the university system, and I managed to get a hold of David Hamer, a professor in the Physics dept. involved with the ligo and geo research as to the status of the site and availability of resources.
When I get this information, as he is a very busy man, I will post an update as soon as it is received.
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We have 5 new members to introduce!
05 September, 2008 03:06
Welcome to our team:
- Daniel
- Martin Toumoij
- martyfelker
- resident
- Matthew
Feel free to introduce yourselves if you would like, and have fun crunching!
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Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri
07 August, 2008 20:42
"This is the second black hole that we find in a globular cluster, so this is a very nice reassuring fact. But also, we know that there are seeds required to grow supermassive black holes from scratch. And if we find many of these, then it will be a nice source for the seeds to grow supermassive black holes."
"One implication of this discovery is that it is very likely that Omega Centauri is not a globular cluster at all, but a dwarf galaxy stripped of its outer stars and dark matter, as some scientists have suspected for a few years. More than two thousand years after Omega Centauri was wrongly classified as a star, it’s true nature is finally coming to light. But I wonder, does Omega Centauri have more surprises in store for us? This is Dr. J signing off for the Hubblecast. Once again nature has surprised us beyond our wildest imagination …"
Here is a Google Earth KML file for this location: Omega Centauri.kml
"For astronomers, Omega Centauri has been an outcast amongst globular clusters for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory provides a surprising explanation for Omega Centauri’s peculiarities."
Credit:
ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen), R. Gendler
Narration:
Dr. Robert FosburyDesign:
Martin KornmesserWeb Technical Support:
Lars Holm Nielsen
Raquel Yumi ShidaCinematographer:
Peter Rixner (www.perix.de)Script:
Lars Lindberg Christensen, Raquel Yumi ShidaDirector:
Lars Lindberg Christensen--http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic0809a.html
[Source for a PDF version of this transcript].
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Welcome to our team, niveous & Slacker1989!
07 August, 2008 08:00
Welcome niveous & Slacker1989! Keep em' crunch'n!
Here is some project news that everyone should be aware of:
Aug 5, 2008
The server upgrade is mostly complete, and we are now distributing work for our new search, S5R4a. If your personal BOINC installation has behaved strangely in the past days, please be patient. In most cases this will now sort itself out. We still need to track down a few remaining issues: some of the project PHP pages are not working entirely as they should, and there have been some performance problems with the web pages. Hopefully these will be resolved in the next few days.
Way to go everyone, our stats are hot!
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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:
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 gravitational wave detector. It also searches for radio pulsars in binary systems, using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. 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.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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