Pirates@Home

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This is just a test!

Pirates@Home is just a test of BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. Our goal is to develop both experience and software (including a nifty screensave) for Einstein@Home, but we are not actually doing any production computing for that or any other scientific project. (At least not yet.)

Einstein@Home

The goal of Einstein@Home will be to use distributed public computing to provide the computational power needed to conduct an all-sky blind search for gravitational radiation using data from the LIGO and GEO 600 gravity wave detectors.

If you would like to participate in Einstein@Home when it officially starts then please sign up to be notified when the project is ready for new users.

LIGO and GEO600

• Read about the LIGO observatories
• Read about the GEO600 detector

• LIGO - main web site
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) - the scientists who are searching for gravity waves
• GEO 600.

Getting Started

To start participating in Pirates@Home you should first read the getting started page.

Other BOINC projects

Several other projects are using BOINC for distributed public computing in support of scientific research. Here are a few that we know of:

• http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/ - searching through radio telescope data for signs of extraterestrial intelligence.
• http://predictor.scripps.edu/ - Intensive computations to predict the conformation of protein molecules based on their DNA sequence.
• ClimatePrediction.net - Distributed computing to try to produce a forecast of the climate of the 21st century.
• http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/ - simulate particles traveling through the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

A list of many more current and planned projects using distributed computing of all sorts can be found on the Aspenleaf list of distributed computing projects.