Einstein@home
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| Developer(s) | LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), Max Planck Society (MPG) |
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| Initial release | February 19, 2005 |
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | BOINC |
| License | GNU General Public License, version 2. |
| Average performance | 1.7 PFLOPS; 0.81 PFLOPS, |
| Active users | 36,647 |
| Total users | 440,542 |
| Active hosts | 50,310 |
| Total hosts | 1,579,553 |
| Website | einsteinathome |
Einstein@Home is a volunteer distributed computing project that searches for signals from rotating neutron stars in data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, from large radio telescopes, and from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Neutron stars are detected by their pulsed radio and gamma-ray emission as radio and/or gamma-ray pulsars. They also might be observable as continuous gravitational wave sources if they are rapidly rotating and non-axisymmetrically deformed. Einstein@Home examines radio telescope data from the Arecibo Observatory and has in the past analysed data from Parkes Observatory, searching for radio pulsars. The project also analyses data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to discover gamma-ray pulsars. The project runs on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform and uses free software released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Einstein@Home is hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany). The project is supported by the American Physical Society (APS), the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Max Planck Society (MPG). The Einstein@Home project director is Bruce Allen.
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