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Message 113150 - Posted 18 Jul 2011 12:40:17 UTC

    Einstein@Home has discovered a fifth new radio pulsar J1644-4409 in data from the Parkes Multi Beam Pulsar Survey (PMPS)! Congratulations to Jesse Charles Wagner II (USA) and Ras (USA).

    Further details about the newly-discovered pulsar may be found on this web page, and will be published in due course.

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    Message 113153 - Posted 18 Jul 2011 17:16:53 UTC

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      Too bad the chances of discovering gravitational waves are almost nil against Pulsar search, CPU-only rigs are such inefficient crunchers.
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      Message 113158 - Posted 19 Jul 2011 10:57:44 UTC - in response to Message 113153.

        Ok, GPUs can crunch faster, but they are still in the minority, so that now (very roughly) half the results are returned by CPUs and half by GPUs. I'm sure many of the discoverers of the now 7 pulsars in total were using CPUs only.

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        This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants PHY-1104902, PHY-1104617 and PHY-1105572 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

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