5614 Posted November 24, 2004 Posted November 24, 2004 Einstein@Home is a compuert distribution program. You download it in the form of a screensaver and when (and only when) that screen saver is activated ie. you are away from your computer for a while it will activate itself and then your computer is used with thousands of other computers to form one mega-computer. (available for windows, mac or linux) http://www.physics2005.org/events/einsteinathome/#einsteinathome (Read above site for more information) Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in his general theory of relativity, but only now in the 21st Century has technology advanced enough for scientists to detect and study them. Although gravitational waves have not yet been detected directly, their influence on a binary pulsar (two neutron stars orbiting each other) has been measured accurately, and was found to be in good agreement with original predictions. Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies in this field. http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ (possibly the official site) It comes out (final version) at the end of 2004. Einstein@Home will rely on private owners of PCs, like you, to donate computer time to the analysis of LIGO data.
Gilded Posted November 24, 2004 Posted November 24, 2004 Argh, I'm getting rather tired of these @Home things. >:/
TheBigDino Posted November 24, 2004 Posted November 24, 2004 cool, I might download it once it comes out.....
5614 Posted November 24, 2004 Author Posted November 24, 2004 Argh, I'm getting rather tired of these @Home things. >:/ maybe so, but the scientific comunity need your computer... seriously though, this would be a major break through for relativety and is a good cause!
atinymonkey Posted November 25, 2004 Posted November 25, 2004 I think I can safely say that everyone is aware of the @home programs. I have to concur with Gilded, I don't need more of these trying to pull at public resources. Especially as the other @home programs are a hell of a lot more philanthropic than this one. Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but there you go.
5614 Posted November 25, 2004 Author Posted November 25, 2004 Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but there you go. no, its ok, your entitled to publicly announcing your view! indeed it is that very point which is the flaw in all of them. seti@home was a create idea, not there are many of the "@home" projects, and they are pulling away "customers" from each other. hence these are not going to be able to go on for much longer. seti@home is more powerful than any super computer ever built, however there are not many more people who are going to download "@home" program, so they will become ineffective. at the same time, on a scientific community, no harm in announcing one, esp. one which is testing Einstien's theory.
Auk Posted December 16, 2004 Posted December 16, 2004 Neat, l'd definitely be interested in downloading it. Thx for the link.
MolecularMan14 Posted December 16, 2004 Posted December 16, 2004 lol, yea I'll check it out ASAP. dont forget to keep us udated! ...hmm...wonder if they'll have teams... Edit: ...apparently they do have teams, but I can't set up an account yet, so I'll let everyone know when I can make a team for us. Hope to get some ppl involved. Thanks to 5614!
MolecularMan14 Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 The testing version just became available, so I may hold back on making a team just yet. I will update you all when the final release becomes available to everyone.
MolecularMan14 Posted February 16, 2005 Posted February 16, 2005 Done http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_display.php?teamid=621
FCA/DP Posted February 23, 2005 Posted February 23, 2005 Right Einstein@home has now thrown open its doors and is available for everyone. http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
5614 Posted February 23, 2005 Author Posted February 23, 2005 yeah, but we wanna use MolecularMan14's link because that's the SFN (science forum network... ya know, what your on now!!!!) team one!!!! http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_display.php?teamid=621
FCA/DP Posted February 23, 2005 Posted February 23, 2005 I wasn't listed on it earlier. It must take a while to update its records
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