Hi,
Not sure if they are accepting new testers at the moment or not, but some of you may want to visit the site anyway.
Cheers,
~Al
Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to
search for spinning compact stars (such as pulsars) using data
from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. We plan to deploy
a production version of Einstein@home around the end of 2004, as part
of the American Physical Society's World Year of Physics 2005
activities.
We have just completed our first test release of Einstein@home, and
would like to solicit your help in testing it. Please be aware that
this is not a production version of Einstein@home: it is an early
(alpha) test release, which has undergone only limited testing within
the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and GEO project.
We would be grateful for your help in testing this first Einstein@home
release. If you would like to help us, please go to
einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
and click on the 'Download BOINC' link.
Download and run BOINC, and when prompted, enter:
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Register to get your own account set up.
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At the URL above, use the 'Your account' link to set preferences about
when Einstein@home will run on your computer, change your account name,
view your pending credits, upload a photo for our picture gallery, etc.
Since this is our first (alpha test, pre-production) Einstein@home
release, we are only accepting a limited number of users, who have
indicated an interest in helping. During the next few months, as we
continue and complete our testing, we will release new versions of
Einstein@home, and accept more and more users. If all goes well, we
hope to 'throw open the doors' near the end of 2004.
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.
If you experience problems with Einstein@home or have suggestions,
please post a question on the message board at the URL above.
Sincerely,
Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
  