News

Two new papers about the Einstein@Home radio pulsar search

March 13, 2013

Two new papers, which describe the Einstein@Home search for radio pulsars and some of the discoveries, have recently been submitted for journal review. If you are interested in learning more, preprints are available from the Cornell University Library Open Access server:

- The Einstein@Home search for radio pulsars and PSR J2007+2722 discovery

Syracuse University rises to the top!

February 28, 2013

Thank you and congratulations to Syracuse University whose recent average credit value in excess of 3 million is one of the largest that we have seen in the project's history. This represents about 4% of Einstein@Home's total computing power. There must be a lot of Syracuse University campus computers crunching Einstein@Home! Without your help a few weeks ago, I don't think we wouldn't have made it past the 1 Petaflop mark.

Einstein@Home passes 1 Petaflop of computing power!

January 06, 2013

Congratulations and thank you to all Einstein@Home volunteers: sometime shortly after January 1st 2013, Einstein@Home passed the 1 Petaflop computing-power barrier. To put this in context, according to the current (November 2012) Top-500 computing list, there are only 23 computers on our planet that deliver this much computing power.

(One Petaflop is 1,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second.)

Congratulations and thank you again, and keep on crunching!