E@H Team Anand drops to 13

[ryokum]

With the end of Seti@home in our sights, we could use the help over at Einstein at Home. We are currently 13 in the standings. Our production has stayed flat for a couple of weeks now while some of the other teams are really ramping up production.

E@H Team Stats

 

[GLeeM]

Looks like maybe another overtake in a few days

Looks like this might be TAS's next project :thumbsup:

 

[Shuxclams]

Joined...........












SHUX

 

[mrwizer]

Although I will be going with whatever TAS decides on, I have added about 7 machines in anticipation (it looks like E@H will win). Sadly taking them off of FaD to do so. I am slowly rising in the stats though And my production is rising...

 

[Shuxclams]

Any word on how we're doing this week?













SHUX

 

[networkman]

Sorry guys, alot of the drop in rank has to do with a big drop in my own production; for quite a while I was doing about 27% of the TeAm's daily production, but the electric bills just got to be too much and I had to shut down machines.

I still keep a couple PCs running for the project(they'd be running anyway), but I'm no longer keeping tabs on stats or ranking.

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: networkman
Sorry guys, alot of the drop in rank has to do with a big drop in my own production; for quite a while I was doing about 27% of the TeAm's daily production, but the electric bills just got to be too much and I had to shut down machines.

I still keep a couple PCs running for the project(they'd be running anyway), but I'm no longer keeping tabs on stats or ranking.

The observatory is down?

 

[mrwizer]

Originally posted by: Shuxclams
Any word on how we're doing this week?

I believe we have picked it up a bit.

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: Coquito

Originally posted by: networkman
Sorry guys, alot of the drop in rank has to do with a big drop in my own production; for quite a while I was doing about 27% of the TeAm's daily production, but the electric bills just got to be too much and I had to shut down machines.

I still keep a couple PCs running for the project(they'd be running anyway), but I'm no longer keeping tabs on stats or ranking.

The observatory is down?

Oh, the "observatory" group is still functioning, but right now it's not in a dedicated building - just a confederation of members, some with machines crunching, some with other projects recording and analyzing data. I hope to have the 12' diameter antenna up and running in my back yard before the end of the month. I still have to check with the city on zoning regulations, but I think my backyard will be fine.

 

[superkdogg]

Originally posted by: networkman
Sorry guys, alot of the drop in rank has to do with a big drop in my own production; for quite a while I was doing about 27% of the TeAm's daily production, but the electric bills just got to be too much and I had to shut down machines.

I still keep a couple PCs running for the project(they'd be running anyway), but I'm no longer keeping tabs on stats or ranking.

Yeah, I noticed your production was down. Oh well, don't be hard on yourself. This thread ought to allow us to grab a few more members to pick it back up.

When Seti finally does close up shop, I bet we get a large boost from those guys signing up.

 

[Wolfsraider]

TAS is on the job

I added my 4 last night.

 

[emjem]

And why is it that I should spend $20/month for electricity to look for spinning neutron stars?

 

[networkman]

Because there's a greater chance of finding and confirming spinning neutron stars than there is in finding and communicating with alien civilizations??

I'm not knocking SETI - I did it for years. For me, it's just been time to move onto another interest. You have to make the determination of whether science for it's own sake is worth x number of dollars per month.

 

[Freewolf]

And when you find a spinning neutron star what do you do with it ?

 

[networkman]

I cuddle it and pet it and call it George.

Hehe.. seriously though, it's really science for the sake of science. If nothing else, it's an aid in creating star charts for future generations that may well travel to the stars. It's kind of like being involved in an exploration of sorts - that's the hook for me.

 

[Freewolf]

Originally posted by: networkman
I cuddle it and pet it and call it George.

Oh, the same thing you do to a pet rock

 

[Wolfsraider]

Dance the happy dance, I would be happy that I got to see a result somewhere lol

I know, I know...Whack!

I'll save you the trouble of hitting me
Whack!
Whack!
Whack!

:beer:

Mike

 

[Freewolf]

Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
Dance the happy dance, I would be happy that I got to see a result somewhere lol

I know, I know...Whack!

I'll save you the trouble of hitting me
Whack!
Whack!
Whack!

:beer:

Mike

I don't know if I want to see you dance Mike.

I see the results every month when the power bill comes in. One reason I switched from seti.

 

[Wolfsraider]

LOL true true

and about that power bill ouch

 

[networkman]

Yeah, I'm not doing as much with the computers as I have been, but I'm now getting my hands dirty so to speak on the actual observing and recording part of the project. I truly can't wait to get this 12' dish up and running in my yard so I can join my comrades in looking for pulsars.

 

[emjem]

Originally posted by: networkman
Because there's a greater chance of finding and confirming spinning neutron stars than there is in finding and communicating with alien civilizations??

I'm not knocking SETI - I did it for years. For me, it's just been time to move onto another interest. You have to make the determination of whether science for it's own sake is worth x number of dollars per month.

Science for it's own sake, huh? Scholarly curiosity is not high on my list so I pass.

 

[networkman]

Everyone has different motivations for their actions.

Perhaps you'd be interested in another project like RC5-72

Team Anandtech has a team there and there is a chance you can win some prize money for your efforts.

 

[mrwizer]

Originally posted by: emjem

Originally posted by: networkman
Because there's a greater chance of finding and confirming spinning neutron stars than there is in finding and communicating with alien civilizations??

I'm not knocking SETI - I did it for years. For me, it's just been time to move onto another interest. You have to make the determination of whether science for it's own sake is worth x number of dollars per month.

Science for it's own sake, huh? Scholarly curiosity is not high on my list so I pass.

If anyone should choose not to participate in a DC project, then that is fine. But, that being said, here is what Einstein@Home is about...


Einstein@Home is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany for signals coming from extremely dense, rapidly rotating stars. Such sources are believed to be either quark stars or neutron stars, and a subclass of these are already observed by conventional means as pulsars or X-ray emitting celestial objects. Scientists believe that some of these compact stars may not be perfectly spherical, and if so, they should emit characteristic gravitational waves, which LIGO and GEO 600 may begin to detect in coming months.


Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time produced by events in our galaxy and throughout universe, such as black hole collisions, shockwaves from the cores of exploding supernovas, and rotating pulsars, neutron stars, and quark stars. These ripples in the space-time fabric travel toward Earth, bringing with them information about their origins, as well as invaluable clues to the nature of gravity.

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in his general theory of relativity, but only now in the 21st Century has technology advanced enough for scientists to detect and study them. Although gravitational waves have not yet been detected directly, their influence on a binary pulsar (two neutron stars orbiting each other) has been measured accurately, and was found to be in good agreement with original predictions. Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies in this field.

Although just my own opinion, but I think this to be an important and worthy cause. Although different from projects such as FaD, it is still important. Think where we would be if relativity had never been discovered in the first place.

 

[ryokum]

Production has increased slightly and yes, we are still in number 13. We show the number of active users now at 55, which is up from @46.

 

[zaph]

I've got E@H runing 1/3 share on one of my machines, i'll bump it to a few more machines once i get to 500k points in seti-boinc ( at the rate im going at, probably only about 10 days to 2 weeks)

zaph crunching as Chris S for TA