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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We're a crunching! Welcome two new members!
17 May, 2008 09:18 CST6CDTWelcome Dan: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu//show_user.php?userid=325617, and Artefact2: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu//show_user.php?userid=203437
I always kid about computer exhaust, but I tell you - keeping even one computer crunching numbers can make the temperature uncomfortable. For me, much so - wrong side of the sun, and the computers included. I had to turn on my air, as embarrassing as that may be for this time of year.
Remember, water IS wet, and not always the safest way to cool your computers while you crunch. ;)
Again, welcome Dan and Artefact2!
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Welcome Goldm00n!
15 May, 2008 17:52 CST6CDTWelcome to our team Goldm00n! Happy crunching!
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shibby news on our world position!
15 May, 2008 17:46 CST6CDTOur team's world position has fallen below 100. Let's all have a cold one this evening! Congrats!
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Oh man, I will eat soup with a fork for not mentioning that our team is ranked #56 at the time of this post. We definitely have a dedicated group, which shows with our combined effort in support for this project.
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April 2008 milestones!
09 May, 2008 09:59 CST6CDT| Recent Milestones | |
| Name | Milestone |
| Robert Felber | 350,000 |
| InfoXbase | 900,000 |
| Pav Lucistnik | 600,000 |
| Tom Hunt | 1,000 |
| Tom Hunt | 750 |
| Andy Wright | 300,000 |
| Robert Felber | 300,000 |
| Aidan | 2,500 |
| Tom Hunt | 500 |
| Tom Hunt | 250 |
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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