Einstein@home needs more publicity
6 Jan 2006 19:14:25 UTC
Topic 190535
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Einstein@home is not as widely known SETI@home. Greater effort is needed to make more students & teachers around the world aware of this project as I am sure that many more of them would like to join in.
Einstein@home needs more publicity
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Einstein was one of the "events" of the world year of physics, which is over. And was recently mentioned, although indirectly, on
heise (in German) and /. in connection with the end of SETI classic.
Maybe someone gets them to do a full fledged article about Einstein?
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
I'm watching it for some time
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I'm watching it for some time now and try to make more team members have Einstein at least as their SETI backup.
Our team output for Einstein has increased since December, but when people enter a new project, they usually start to build up a stack of pending results before they reach their full credits throughput.
Many people have been unhappy with BOINC, pulled a bunch of WUs and uninstalled it. This might - together with the lowered initial replication - have caused a major increase in the amount of pending results (I had nearly 100 for a while and it's still 80 now). This effect should slowly begin to decrease now, as the "No reply" results get delivered again.
I think, currently it's hard to tell how much ressource share new BOINC crunchers gave to Einstein, the real values will not show before February.
p.s.: Pirates must have been a good advertizer for Einstein. I bet, many people wanted to be pirates and went over to Einstein from there.