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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a game to hunt down gravitational waves
09 July, 2008 15:39
Jun 27, 2008
You can play a game and learn something about gravitational waves at the new website http://www.blackholehunter.org. This project was developed as part of the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2008. -- http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/all_news.php#151
"Black Hole Hunter game was developed as a part of the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2008, Can you hear black holes collide? presented by Cardiff University, Universities of Birmingham, Glasgow and Southampton in the UK in collaboration with the Albert Einstein Institute and Milde Marketing in Germany." -- http://www.blackholehunter.org/
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recent milestones as of July 7th, 2008
07 July, 2008 06:47
| Date | Member | Milestone |
| 7/3/2008 | SAV | 90,000 |
| 7/3/2008 | Mark | 100,000 |
| 7/2/2008 | Mark | 90,000 |
| 6/30/2008 | Mark | 80,000 |
| 6/29/2008 | Mark | 70,000 |
| 6/29/2008 | Kazuaki Kumagai | 450,000 |
| 6/28/2008 | Memory of SampsonStein | 60,000 |
| 6/28/2008 | Mark | 60,000 |
| 6/26/2008 | Mark | 50,000 |
| 6/25/2008 | Mark | 40,000 |
| 6/24/2008 | Andy Wright | 450,000 |
| 6/23/2008 | Mark | 30,000 |
| 6/21/2008 | Hammer | 2,500 |
| 6/21/2008 | Mark | 20,000 |
| 6/19/2008 | Mark | 10,000 |
| 6/19/2008 | Robert Felber | 600,000 |
| 6/17/2008 | rene | 150,000 |
| 6/14/2008 | Mark | 7,500 |
| 6/14/2008 | Pav Lucistnik | 700,000 |
| 6/13/2008 | becurb | 800,000 |
| 6/11/2008 | Mark | 5,000 |
| 6/11/2008 | Aidan | 10,000 |
| 6/8/2008 | silas428 | 2,500 |
| 6/8/2008 | codebeast | 80,000 |
| 6/7/2008 | Kevin | 2,500 |
| 6/6/2008 | Mark | 2,500 |
| 6/5/2008 | Memory of SampsonStein | 50,000 |
| 6/4/2008 | Mark | 1,000 |
| 6/4/2008 | Kevin | 1,000 |
| 6/4/2008 | Andy Wright | 400,000 |
| 6/3/2008 | Kevin | 500 |
| 6/3/2008 | Mark | 500 |
| 6/2/2008 | Mark | 250 |
| 6/2/2008 | Wendy! | 5,000 |
| 6/1/2008 | Robert Felber | 500,000 |
| 5/29/2008 | Goldm00n | 1,000 |
| 5/28/2008 | silas428 | 1,000 |
| 5/28/2008 | Aidan | 7,500 |
| 5/25/2008 | Robert Felber | 450,000 |
| 5/24/2008 | Dan | 1,000 |
| 5/24/2008 | InfoXbase | 1,000,000 |
| 5/23/2008 | Goldm00n | 750 |
| 5/21/2008 | Dan | 750 |
| 5/20/2008 | Artefact2 | 250 |
| 5/20/2008 | Goldm00n | 500 |
| 5/17/2008 | Goldm00n | 250 |
| 5/17/2008 | Tom Hunt | 2,500 |
| 5/15/2008 | Robert Felber | 400,000 |
| 5/15/2008 | becurb | 700,000 |
| 5/14/2008 | Aidan | 5,000 |
| 5/14/2008 | Andy Wright | 350,000 |
| 5/10/2008 | shd | 90,000 |
| 5/8/2008 | Robert Felber | 350,000 |
| 5/5/2008 | InfoXbase | 900,000 |
| 5/4/2008 | Pav Lucistnik | 600,000 |
| 5/2/2008 | Tom Hunt | 1,000 |
| 5/1/2008 | Tom Hunt | 750 |
| 5/1/2008 | Robert Felber | 300,000 |
| 5/1/2008 | Andy Wright | 300,000 |
| 4/28/2008 | Aidan | 2,500 |
| 4/27/2008 | Tom Hunt | 500 |
| 4/25/2008 | Tom Hunt | 250 |
| 4/23/2008 | Memory of SampsonStein | 40,000 |
| 4/23/2008 | Robert Felber | 250,000 |
| 4/21/2008 | Aidan | 1,000 |
| 4/21/2008 | Kazuaki Kumagai | 400,000 |
| 4/20/2008 | James P. | 80,000 |
| 4/19/2008 | Aidan | 750 |
| 4/18/2008 | codebeast | 70,000 |
| 4/18/2008 | InfoXbase | 800,000 |
| 4/17/2008 | steve | 20,000 |
| 4/16/2008 | Aidan | 250 |
| 4/16/2008 | Andy Wright | 250,000 |
| 4/14/2008 | Robert Felber | 200,000 |
| 4/14/2008 | s_osawa | 300,000 |
| 4/13/2008 | Hammer | 1,000 |
| 4/10/2008 | peter | 60,000 |
| 4/3/2008 | Hammer | 750 |
| 4/3/2008 | Robert Felber | 150,000 |
| 4/2/2008 | Paul Brownsea | 750 |
| 3/29/2008 | Andy Wright | 200,000 |
| 3/28/2008 | Hammer | 250 |
| 3/28/2008 | Pav Lucistnik | 500,000 |
| 3/26/2008 | Kazuaki Kumagai | 350,000 |
| 3/24/2008 | Robert Felber | 100,000 |
| 3/22/2008 | Robert Felber | 90,000 |
| 3/20/2008 | Robert Felber | 80,000 |
| 3/20/2008 | InfoXbase | 700,000 |
| 3/18/2008 | becurb | 600,000 |
| 3/13/2008 | Lysergius | 2,500 |
| 3/13/2008 | Robert Felber | 50,000 |
| 3/11/2008 | Kazuaki Kumagai | 300,000 |
| 3/9/2008 | Memory of SampsonStein | 25,000 |
| 3/6/2008 | Robert Felber | 25,000 |
| 2/29/2008 | SheltonJ | 10,000 |
| 2/27/2008 | Robert Felber | 10,000 |
| 2/26/2008 | Robert Felber | 7,500 |
| 2/25/2008 | Robert Felber | 5,000 |
| 2/22/2008 | Robert Felber | 2,500 |
| 2/21/2008 | Robert Felber | 1,000 |
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Welcome to our four new members! - Team Milestones
05 June, 2008 17:37
Welcome Kevin, Mark, Wendy!, and silas428! Happy crunching!
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Recent Milestones
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| Name | Milestone |
| Memory of SampsonStein | 50,000 |
| Mark | 1,000 |
| Kevin | 1,000 |
| Andy Wright | 400,000 |
| Mark | 500 |
| Kevin | 500 |
| Mark | 250 |
| Wendy! | 5,000 |
| Robert Felber | 500,000 |
| Goldm00n | 1,000 |
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the most massive Black Hole nearest to us
26 May, 2008 13:19
Also known as:
NGC5128, Centaurus A
Object Type: Galaxy; Central Black Hole; Elliptical; Active Galactic Nucleus; Quasar
"Astronomers obtained an unprecedented look at the nearest example of galactic cannibalism: a massive black hole hidden at the center of a nearby giant galaxy, called Centaurus A, that is feeding on a smaller galaxy in a spectacular collision. Such fireworks were common in the early universe, as galaxies formed and evolved, but are rare today. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the merged Centaurus A galaxy, officially called NGC 5128, with a dramatic dark lane of dust girdling the galaxy. Blue clusters of newborn stars are clearly resolved, and silhouettes of dust filaments are interspersed with blazing orange-glowing gas. Located only 10 million light-years away, this peculiar-looking galaxy contains the closest active galactic nucleus to Earth and has long been considered an example of an elliptical galaxy disrupted by a recent collision with a smaller companion spiral galaxy..." -- Google Earth
Simulation of NGC5128, Centaurus A
"The Hubble telescope offers a stunning unprecedented close-up view of a turbulent firestorm of star birth along a nearly edge-on dust disk girdling Centaurus A, the nearest active galaxy to Earth. The picture at upper left shows the entire galaxy. The blue outline represents Hubble's field of view. The larger, central picture is Hubble's close-up view of the galaxy. Brilliant clusters of young blue stars lie along the edge of the dark dust lane. Outside the rift the sky is filled with the soft hazy glow of the galaxy's much older resident population of red giant and red dwarf stars." -- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/14
Here is a Google Earth KML file I created with the location and stunning high detailed image of this black hole: NGC5128.kml
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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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