February 24, 2005

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.

The project officially opened this past Saturday (Feb. 19th.) Part of the World Year of Physics celebration. Another such project is Quantum Diaries, a website that hosts the blogs of a variety of physicists from around the world. Hm, this post needs something. Perhaps a little humor?

posted by loto 19 years ago
  • The applications run by Einstein@Home may cause some computers to overheat. If this happens, stop running Einstein@Home or use a utility program that limits CPU usage. Hmm... I wonder if the CPU usage (I guess for that and SETI@home) is more intensive than that of Flight Simulator or an action game. Call me a coward but my computers are a few years old and I hate for them to be maxed out on heat like the warning says.
  • Great post - love "quantum diaries"! 10GeV banana for you!
  • I love distributed computing, but I gotta tell ya that it'll take more than using Einstein's name to pull my spare cycles away from Folding@Home. I'm all for Physics, believe me, but when it's a choice between doing something that might cure cancer and astronomical research, I gots to go with the cancer one. I do look forward to reading the Quantum Diaries. And for the humor: One atom says to the other, "Hey, I think I lost an electron." The other atom says, "Are you sure?" The first atom says.... ..."Yup, I'm positive."
  • isn't there one where you can help search for sasquatch? that's way more important than curing cancer or finding gay acting stars.
  • *uninstalls HelpTomCruise@Home software*