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scottish144

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E-mail I just got:

Dear scottish144,

Thank you for your contribution to the Einstein@Home project. We have completed a search for isolated pulsars using the most sensitive 600 hours of LIGO S3 data and are now doing an improved search using the more sensitive S4 data set.

At the current rate, this improved search will take about six months to complete. Our records indicate that you contributed to our previous search but are no longer active. Please consider restarting the project on your computer(s) to help us complete the S4 search more quickly.

Sincerely,
Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home

Might actually start crunching for them again. Have to sacrifice LHC or R@H though :(
 
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Spacehead

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Originally posted by: scottish144
Might actually start crunching for them again. Have to sacrifice LHC or R@H though :(
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So many projects, too few computers :(

Nice they recognized your contribution though :)

 
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scottish144

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Originally posted by: Spacehead
Originally posted by: scottish144
Might actually start crunching for them again. Have to sacrifice LHC or R@H though :(
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So many projects, too few computers :(

Nice they recognized your contribution though :)
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Don't know why. I only have 714 total cred.
 
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networkman

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scottish144 - try replying to him and telling him that your comrade at "Grand Rapids Radio Observatory" will be adding more CPU power this weekend! :D
 
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BadThad

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Interesting. Now that DC has "caught on" there's simply too much competition for spare CPU cycles. The relatively small pool of DCer's keeps getting more and more diluted with more and more projects. I can still remember 6 years ago here when there was only maybe 3-4 DC projects going on at one time. How many are there available today, 30? 40? 50?

I predict one day DCers will be paid for their work. I'm waiting for some smart guy to create a vast network of DCers to form an ultra super computer that get's "rented" by people to do heavy research.
 
silverpig

silverpig

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Originally posted by: BadThad
Interesting. Now that DC has "caught on" there's simply too much competition for spare CPU cycles. The relatively small pool of DCer's keeps getting more and more diluted with more and more projects. I can still remember 6 years ago here when there was only maybe 3-4 DC projects going on at one time. How many are there available today, 30? 40? 50?

I predict one day DCers will be paid for their work. I'm waiting for some smart guy to create a vast network of DCers to form an ultra super computer that get's "rented" by people to do heavy research.
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That already happened and it went bust. It was called "the process tree" or something. You'd sign up, and list your specs. Then projects would go to this company and submit work. They'd break it up, send it to users, and we'd get some money for doing our work. I'm not sure if I even got a single work unit, but I know I never got any money, and then they went out of business.

But the market is changing, and I could easily see something like this happening. Perhaps even a government funded central DC system much like BOINC for scientists at universities to write apps for.
 
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networkman

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I'm not familiar with the "process tree" project, but I have heard that IBM and some other companies were looking into providing "On-Demand Computing" for those companies looking to lease huge amounts of processor time so that they needn't invest in have computers on hand.
 
Freewolf

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I signed up for that one a while back but they didn't need any more machines from my area.
 
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