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Thank you for your interest in Einstein@Home!
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
and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@Home is a World Year of
Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS)
and by a number of international organizations.
If you would like to take part, please follow the "Join Einstein@Home"
instructions to the left. Einstein@Home is available for Windows, Linux
and Macintosh OS X computers.
Einstein@Home is just in the process of completing its second search
(S5R2/S5R3) of data
from LIGO's first science run at design sensitivity (S5).
We are also beginning a new search (S5R4) using 5280 hours of data from
the later (and most sensitive) part of S5.
For more information, please see the
"Science information" section on the left of this page.
Bruce Allen
Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and Director, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Hannover
Einstein@Home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
News items Nov 20, 2008
In the next days (probably Monday next week) we will begin testing
a new scheduler code. We'll start a specific thread on the
Problems and Bug Reports
message board to report problems with this new scheduler when we actually start testing.
Please prepare for some irregularities while we tune the new setup.
Sep 25, 2008
We have completed processing the S5R3 workunits. S5R3 was the first search
using the combined F-stat plus Hough method, which is currently the
most sensitive search technique that is known. This search used approximately one year of data
from LIGO's first science run (S5) at design sensitivity.
The S5R3 post-processing is being led by Dr. Maria Alessandra Papa,
one of the inventors of the search technique.
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.
Aug 1, 2008
Work on Einstein@Home will continue through the weekend and will be finished some time on Monday Aug 4. A news item will be posted when all the work is finished.
Jul 28, 2008
The Einstein@Home project will be shutdown for approximately one day starting some time after 1700 UTC Friday. Leading up the project downtime we might not have enough work to send out to everyone as we are near the end of our S5R3 analysis. During the outage we will be upgrading the hardware for the main project server and starting the new S5R4 analysis run with a new dataset.
Your patience is appreciated.
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