For those who don't know, its a project coming soon.

October 12, 2004

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. We plan to deploy a production version of Einstein@home around the end of 2004, as part of the American Physical Society's World Year of Physics 2005 activities. If you would like to register as a test user, please go to the APS WYP 2005 Page.

Testers: Please be aware that this is not a production version of Einstein@home: it is an early (alpha) test release, which has undergone only limited testing within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and GEO project.

Since this is our first (alpha test, pre-production) Einstein@home release, we are only accepting a limited number of users, who have indicated an interest in helping. During the next few months, as we continue and complete our testing, we will release new versions of Einstein@home, and accept more and more users. If all goes well, we hope to 'throw open the doors' near the end of 2004.

This first test of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over the entire sky, using the ten most sensitive hours of data from LIGO's second science run, S2. This same data has already been analyzed using a very powerful dedicated supercomputing cluster (nothing significant was found). For our first test of Einstein@home, we are repeating this search with some small technical changes.

Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration


Here's the email I got.

>Thank you for your interest in Einstein@home!
>
>Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to
>search for spinning compact stars (such as pulsars) using data
>from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. We plan to deploy
>a production version of Einstein@home around the end of 2004, as part
>of the American Physical Society's World Year of Physics 2005
>activities.
>
>We have just completed our first test release of Einstein@home, and
>would like to solicit your help in testing it. Please be aware that
>this is not a production version of Einstein@home: it is an early
>(alpha) test release, which has undergone only limited testing within
>the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and GEO project.
>
>We would be grateful for your help in testing this first Einstein@home
>release. If you would like to help us, please go to
>http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ and click on the 'Download BOINC' link.
>Download and run BOINC, and when prompted, enter:
> Project URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu
> Account ID: *****************************
>The account ID is case sensitive: please cut-and-paste it into your
>browser or type it exactly as above. At the URL above, use the
>'Your account' link to set preferences about when Einstein@home will
>run on your computer, change your account name, etc.
>
>Since this is our first (alpha test, pre-production) Einstein@home
>release, we are only accepting a limited number of users, who have
>indicated an interest in helping. During the next few months, as we
>continue and complete our testing, we will release new versions of
>Einstein@home, and accept more and more users. If all goes well, we
>hope to 'throw open the doors' near the end of 2004.
>
>This first test of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over
>the entire sky, using the ten most sensitive hours of data from LIGO's
>second science run, S2. This same data has already been analyzed
>using a very powerful dedicated supercomputing cluster (nothing
>significant was found). For our first test of Einstein@home, we are
>repeating this search with some small technical changes.
>
>If you experience problems with Einstein@home or have suggestions,
>please post a question on the message board at the URL above.
>
>Sincerely,
> Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
> Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Even though its in the alpha stage, just thought I should make the team since i'm interested in it.