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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