Results of S3 run!!!!

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When the results of Science3 will be available???? Do want you want to release that soon or the results will be not showed to the einstein@home and BOINC comunity????

It s important for us!!!
Thanks

The issue of releasing results has been discussed elsewhere. It is in part due to the fact that the results must be reviewed by a committee and approved prior to being released. That can take a lot of time.

11) Message boards : Discussion : Science : What's up with the data?
Posted 43 days ago by Ben Owen
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Hi folks,

We do appreciate that people want to see more of what is going on and are making efforts to provide more information, graphical and otherwise.

The "End of May" report card that Bruce Allen mentioned was finished at the end of June. It is now under review by the LIGO Science Collaboration.

Basically, the policy on the data has been that it represents the work of all four hundred or so Collaboration members, many of whom have sweated all day every day for a decade or more to get it to this point; and that no results using the data be made public without Collaboration approval. It would be very embarrassing if one person put out a wrong result with all our names attached to it. This doesn't mean that four hundred people have to read everything and sign off on it, which would take forever, but there are review committees that scrutinize things (down to picking the code apart) before saying OK and that takes time.

Hopefully the review is moving along and we will be able to show you all the Report Card soon. It may take a little while longer, though, because this is the first time they have contemplated "publishing" partial results in such form and they may have to sort out some broader issues. The previous results have all been technical articles and talks. As Greg pointed out, some are available at the LSC web site.

The bad news is that Bruce has disappeared. The good news is that he is incommunicado because last week Dave Anderson, father of BOINC, made a presentation at a conference nearby. Bruce saw the chance to grab him, and they are basically chained together for a couple of weeks sorting out some long-standing BOINC issues.

That's the current news.

Hope this helps,
Ben
12) Message boards : Discussion : Science : Progress metric
Posted 51 days ago by Ben Owen
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Folks, and those on other threads asking similar questions:

There has been a bit of silence on this for a while for several reasons.

(1) The labor shortage behind the scenes is getting more intense.

(2) There have been several scientific conferences lately, and many people are living in airports.

(3) Most importantly, we are trying to figure out various progress metrics for various audiences and timescales. The best sign of progress will be a technical paper for scientists accompanied by press releases for the public, but that's a while off. A shorter-term thing would be the "End of May" report, which will be like an informal conference paper; and you've probably figured out from the name that it's more work than we thought. Things like the "percentage of data analyzed" are trickier than they look - apparently the "Server Status" numbers that I pointed out in another thread don't necessarily translate to that, because due to server constraints a lot of things are done on the fly.

I don't really have a good answer yet, but I wanted to say that we haven't forgotten about this and we are paying attention to your suggestions. Can't promise on any of them because what is doable does not always map onto what is desirable, but more things are coming.

Hope this helps,
Ben