News

Can Einstein@Home pass the 1 Petaflop (1000 Teraflop) barrier?

December 10, 2012

The computing power of Einstein@Home has exceeded 950 Teraflops for the first time since the project was begun in 2005. Based on the rate that our computing power has been growing, I am hopeful that Einstein@Home will pass the 1 Petaflop barrier before the end of 2012. Einstein@Home volunteers: please keep your computers running over the holiday season, and please sign up any new ones that you might receive as a gift!

Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home

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Einstein@Home has passed 800 Teraflops!

November 27, 2012

Many thanks to the DC Russian Union for their ""Pulsar Rampage" computing challenge which helped to push Einstein@Home past the 800 Teraflop computing-power level for the first time in the history of the project!

Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home

Unplanned downtime Nov 17th

November 18, 2012

There was a scheduled power outage of UWMâ€™s physics building for November 17 but since we did not expect any disruption to the E@H servers we did not announce any downtime. The plan was to run E@H off of the data centerâ€™s UPS but unfortunately the batteries did not last nearly as long as expected. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this outage.