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Started by Cruncher Pete, March 25, 2009, 09:47:25 PM

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Cruncher Pete

From Einstein News Archive:

25 Mar 09:

The Einstein@Home project has started a new search for binary radio pulsars in data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. This will run in parallel with the existing search for gravitational waves from rapidly-spinning neutron stars.

ONYX

Too bad Einstein server has crapped itself for the past few days

Cruncher Pete

From Einstein News Archive 23 Apr 09:

The database is still purging, at a rate of about 400,000 workunits per day. We expect that
this process will be completed by about 06:00 UTC tomorrow. At that time, we will do some additional
database maintenance (table optimization) and then restart the project. So in total about another 24
hours will still be needed to bring everything back to normal. Thanks again for your patience during
this unfortunate and long outage.

Cruncher Pete

From Einstein News Archive:

24 Apr 09:

The Einstein@Home project is finally back up and running properly. The binary radio pulsar
search may not be sending out new work for a couple of more days while we fix some VPN
problems between the WU generator in Hannover and the project database in Milwaukee.
However the S5R5 gravitational-wave search IS sending out plenty of work.
Many thanks again to our loyal volunteers and contributors for their patience!

Cruncher Pete

From Einstein News Archive:

27 Apr 09:

Over the weekend the VPN problems were fixed, so the Arecibo Binary Radio Pulsar search
is now also running correctly and sending out new work. So Einstein@Home has completely recovered and is
back in full operation again!

Cruncher Pete

Confused by curved spaces? baffled by black holes? than you are ready for Einstein@ Home.
Einstein@Home uses computertime donated by people like us all over the world.
I thought you might like to watch a related short video about black holes click here.  It is a facinating subject.

BF

From the Einstein@Home news feed:

Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:00 AM

The results of the first Einstein@Home search of (early) S5 LIGO data have been released on the arXiv.org e-print server.

BF

From the Einstein@Home news feed:

Tuesday, 23 June 2009, 10:00:00 AM

Webpages describing the new Einstein@Home search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data are online now. Follow this link to learn more about radio pulsars, how our new search works, and how it can help us searching for gravitational waves.

BF

The content of the entire Einstein website is currently:

Quote
Einstein@Home is down as the result of a fileserver crash.  I am working on repairing
the filesystem now but I do not have an estimate of how long this could take yet.  
Further news will be posted here when we know more.

Thank you for your patience.

BF

From the Einstein@Home news feed:

23/07/09 10:00

To date, the ongoing Einstein@Home search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data has re-discovered a number of known pulsars.  Interested users can find some information about these on the (re-)discoveries page. More information about the radio pulsar search may be found on this page.

Drudge

from Bruce Allen here:  http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=7493

QuoteOur main focus now is to try and speed up the application. E@H is currently processing about 18 minutes of Arecibo data per day. We think that, via various tricks, improvements, optimizations, and GPU-enablings, we can increase this processing speed by almost an order of magnitude, to about 2 hours/day. This would enable us to catch up on the PALFA data set (which on average is about an hour of data per day). Hopefully we can get many of these improvements working this summer and fall.

BF

From the Einstein@Home news feed:

Tuesday, 4 August 2009 10:00 AM

The Einstein@Home search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data has re-discovered four more known pulsars.
More information on these re-discoveries and four re-observations of pulsar J1903+0327 can be found on the (re-)discoveries page. For information on the binary radio pulsar search please have a look at this page.

Drudge

Tue Aug 11 23:26:28 UTC 2009

Einstein@Home is down as the result of yet another fileserver crash.  We are
working on repairing the filesystem now but it will likely take a couple days
before the project is running again.  Further news will be posted here.

Thank you for your patience.

:-((

Drudge

The latest from the most recent file server crash debacle at Einstein:
Fri Aug 14 17:01:20 UTC 2009

QuoteThe first attempt to fix the filesystem failed and the second attempt is
underway.  We will have more news in about 36 hours.

Drudge

Today's latest from Einstien@Home and the recovery from the File Server Crash:

QuoteSun Aug 16 12:47:54 UTC 2009

The filesystem repair is finally moving forward as hoped.  Step one is complete
and step two should finish in about 7 hours.  If everything works out we should
be able to start bringing the project back online at that time.

Thank you again for your patience.