Progress of the project
9 Jan 2005 16:22:10 UTC
Topic 187221
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Hello,
I read this on the frontpage:
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.
Now we are already crunching 2 months on this project. How far is this search advanced? I mean how much % is already computated for this assignement? It would be cool if we had some kind of progress page.
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Progress of the project
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> Now we are already crunching 2 months on this project. How far is this search
> advanced? I mean how much % is already computated for this assignement? It
> would be cool if we had some kind of progress page.
>
> Greetings
> Pconfig
I remember reading in one of the project teams responses (that I can't find now) that we will start working on new data from the S3 run. (the new long work units might be from that run, I am not sure though) The S2 data was pretty much just for alpha testing purposes I believe. It allowed a known benchmark that the test results could be measured against for accuracy.
I think the project team plans several enhancements for the public release including an "expanded" forum format. I agree a progress page would be very cool. I like projects that keep me informed, even though I don't always understand all the advanced science. Something like X% of S3 run data processed, or any "highlights" or discoveries of possible scientific interest would be nice. (keeping in mind that any points of interest we reveal, would have to be reviewed and validated by other scientific methods and/or peers, before it could be considered an actual discovery.)
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