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Einstein@home made their first pulsar discovery. Congratulations to Bruce
Allen and all the Einstein@home team, and to the 3 volunteers who's
computers made the discovery;
Link; http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/index.php
News stories;
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/12/4871630-trio-finds-a-pulsar-and-so-can-you
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/citizen-scientist-pulsars/
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100812/full/news.2010.401.html
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/12/pulsar-einstein-at-home-distributed-computing.html
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Now using alot less CPU for GPU app.
2011-01-20: Einstein@Home - New Einstein@Home Radio Pulsar Search and NVIDIA GPU Code
Einstein@Home is beginning a new round of searching for radio pulsars in short-orbital-period binary systems.
This is accompanied by the release of a new application (called BRP3). The new application is particularly efficient on NVIDIA Graphics Processor Cards (up to a factor of 20 faster than the CPU-only application). In addition, when running on an NVIDIA GPU card, this new application makes very little use of the CPU (typically around 20% CPU use when the GPU is devoted to Einstein@Home).
The NVIDIA GPU application is initially available for Windows and Linux only. We hope to have a Macintosh version available soon. Due to limitations in the NVIDIA drivers, the Linux version still makes heavy use of the CPU. This will be fixed in Spring 2011, when a new version of the NVIDIA Driver is released. Many thanks to NVIDIA technical support for their assistance!
Because we have exhausted the backlog of data from Arecibo Observatory, this new application is being shipped with data from the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey (from the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia). In the next weeks we expect to also start using this new application on fresh Arecibo data taken with the latest 'Mock Spectrometer' back-end.
Questions, problems or bug reports related to this new application and search should be reported in this news item thread as a 'Comment'.
Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home
wow .... work being generated from within Australia ... might have to stick the GTX275 and GTS 250 (dust off the cobwebs on that one) back into a cpl of machines and run some....
I ran a few dozen of these. All ran in about 1 1/4 hours on a GTX285 and the ones that have validated were 500 credits.
EDIT: I noticed the wu are using ~42% CPU and only 44% of the GPU. Not very efficient but good credits.
2011-01-22: Einstein@Home - Einstein@Home downtime Jan 26
The project will be taken offline for important database maintenance late on Tuesday Jan 25 (UTC). Estimated downtime is 24h, we'll try to keep it shorter if possible.
How can I tell if the work units are from Parks?
Actually, I don't know. I didn't find any discussion about it in their form.
Not sure if this is the right place, but this is pretty cool. I've just been advised by Bruce Allen that one of the workunits I crunched, along with Rudzik from Poland, has discovered a new pulsar J1726-3156, using the Parkes data. The data was collected in 1998-2000. The discovery has now been verified by current observations so appaerntly is now legit.
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/PMPS_discoveries/ (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/PMPS_discoveries/)
There's been 13 new discoveries by Einstein@Home volunteers using the Parkes Data, and I'm not 100% sure but it appears I may the first Australian E@H volunteer to discover one using the Australian data. So that makes it even more exciting.
Cheers!
Well done Steven. Maybe you get the thing named after you?????? Karma for that is more than appropriate. v:
Congratulations stevenm. A new pulsar!! +1 :congrats :congrats
Thanks Lawry and kashi.
I don't think it will be named after me. But J1726-3156 is good. It rolls off the tongue...sort of. :rofl:
Apparently it gets noted on the website and in a scientific publication and I get a certificate.
My kids are pretty impressed and really that's good enough for me. :wink
Great achievement and your name will go down in history. Your name will always be associated with finding J1726-3156. +1 :congrats :congrats :worship
Nice! You should scan your certificate and make it into a badge for your signature. ;D
Fantastic news StevenM. Have to hope that Australia gets the SKA awarded to it then many more will be discovered. Plus 1. :congrats :congrats :congrats
:boom: :dance2: :dance2: :boom:
A big congratulations to you stevenm for your major lifetime discovery, and +1 for Karma (I would have done two but wouldnt let me)
Regards
Tazzduke
I thought I posted congratulations. :blush1: Must've back scrolled the page before submitting. Sorry about that.
Well done StevenM, you've left another mark in history! :worship :worship :worship Plus one for that effort. It may even be another plus one but it's worth it. :congrats
Congratz stevenm and PLUS 1
True, it may not roll off one's tongue, but at least it (the discovery) will also not roll away from you, in perpetuity. v:
Well done Stevenm !!!
+ 1 for your discovery ... :congrats :congrats :congrats
EDIT: Steven - which WU's are you crunching ? ? Might give my machines a solid run at Einstein for a while after this AA... even if it means swapping over to the old nVidia GPU.
Thanks all for the congratulatory words and the karma. Its much appreciated. I sort of feel a bit lucky really. Its a bit like winning the lottery. I know you have to buy the ticket or in this case download the workunit, but its really luck of the draw as to which units contain something interesting. Anyway I'm certainly not knocking it. It is very exciting.
I'm running all types of workunits, though I think the Parkes data is in the Gamma Ray Pulsar Search #1, but I'm not 100% on that. I sometimes use my GPU but I work from home and using the GPU while I'm working I find slows things down too much, so I don't run it all the time.
Thanks again for all the kind words. I hope others in our team can have the same luck I did. And all the best for another succesful the AA.
:rocks
What a great idea. Badges ... smadges ... I want one of these!
"Discovery Certificates
Volunteers whose computers discover new pulsars receive framed certificates of appreciation. The latest batch is just being sent out! Here is a photo of one certificate and here is a photo of the boxes ready to ship to our vounteers.
Bruce Allen 31 May 2012 13:19:58 UTC · Comment "
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http://twitpic.com/9qjphh/full
"Einstein@Home volunteers discover nine new radio pulsars!
In the past weeks, Einstein@Home volunteers have discovered nine new new radio pulsars! Seven were found in data from the Parkes Multi-Beam Pulsar Survey (PMPS) and two in data from Arecibo. Congratulations to:
Robert D Burbeck (Derbyshire, UK)
Harald Buchholz (Springfield, Virginia, USA)
Andrew Fullford (Texas, USA)
Pavlo Ovchinnikov (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine)
Nemo Cluster (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
ATLAS Cluster (Hannover, Germany)
Victor1st (UK)
Dušan Pirc (Domzale, Slovenia)
Riaan Strydom (South Africa)
Edelgas (Germany)
Craig G (USA)
Brian Adrian (Dade City, Florida, USA)
Frederick J. Pfitzer (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Queens College, CUNY (New York City, USA)
Masor_DC (Czech Republic)
Gordon E. Hartman (US Navy Team, Dover, Pennsylvania, USA)
Eric Nietering (Dearborn, Michigan, USA)
Tim Taylor (USA)
Christoph Donat (Ingolstadt, Germany)
gone (USA)
Further details about these new discoveries can be found on this web page for PMPS discoveries and this web page for Arecibo discoveries, and will be published in due course. These discoveries bring the Einstein@Home discovery total to 22 new radio pulsars since the beginning of 2012!
Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home 31 May 2012 13:07:44 UTC · Comment
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Yes and they have a new ATI GPU application that I am now running on Linux and on Windows. You need to download the 7.0.27 version of BOINC for the application to work.
Quote from: Dingo on June 03, 2012, 02:24:50 PM
Yes and they have a new ATI GPU application that I am now running on Linux and on Windows. You need to download the 7.0.27 version of BOINC for the application to work.
yep I was looking into that today as well, I don't think it will run on my 4650 but we will see ;D
Yep I am on the same bandwagon as Dingo, running fine on my HD 5850, averaging around the hour and 10 min per task, I have tried running two tasks and have had no problems, but I lose two cores which at the moment I dont wont to lose as their is an AA in progress.
Regards
Tazzduke