Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) "BRP4" - Arecibo data status
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We are slowly but steadily finishing the data we got from Arecibo.
At current rate and unless we get new data from Arecibo until then, BRP4G (GPU, inner galaxy beams) data will be finsihed in about 26 days. There's still plenty of BRP5 data to feed our GPUs with, though.
Likewise our buffer of BRP4 data (CPUs, Intel GPUs, Android) is shrinking. Without measurements we will run out of this data in about 50 days. As we want to keep at least our Android devices fed, we disabled BRP4 (apps) for CPUs - the project has plenty of other CPU work for other applications (S6CasA, FGRP). For now, Intel GPUs will still get BRP4 tasks, but we may disable this in the future as well.
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Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) "BRP4" - Arecibo data statu
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Thanks for the update Bernd.
RE: ... Likewise our buffer
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This is the only available project I would want to use my Intel gpu's on. The other project is not for me.
On the other hand there are several Andriod projects and numerous CPU and GPU projects.
RE: We are slowly but
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thanks for the update..
It was quite a surprise to me one day looking over the Arecebo website to see the exact telescope schedule for p2030 which had produced the WUs being processed on my machine. It is little things like this that make E@H a cool project.
I noticed about 300 hours of telescope time had been requested for the coming year so i guess in theory there is plenty of data in the future.
Is there any likelihood of more data soon?
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In fact we have just received an email from one of our US colleagues who said he has fresh Arecibo data and will make them available to us soon. So there is more data on the way.
Cheers,
Benjamin
Einstein@Home Project
I'm not getting any BRP4 work
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I'm not getting any BRP4 work since several hours. Is this just a temporary problem?
"No work is available for Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo, GPU)"
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RE: I'm not getting any
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Yes. Something got stuck in the pre-processing pipeline. Was fixed, BRP4G tasks should be available again soon.
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Got a nice comment from Adam
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Got a nice comment from Adam Brazier, who manages the Arecibo data at Cornell (and is the "US colleague" Benjamin was referring to):
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Hallo! Does somebody know,
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Hallo!
Does somebody know, when the Chinese 500 meter radioteleskope under construction is comming into operation, and will we get probably also data from there in future?
Kind regards and happy crunching
Martin
RE: Hallo! Does somebody
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Dear Martin,
I recently attended a meeting in China, called START (Science and Technology for Large Radio Telescopes), at which I gave a talk on the Einstein@Home search for radio pulsars.
If I remember correctly, the plan is to start taking data with FAST (the name of the 500-meter radio telescope in China) in 2016. They are currently in a phase where they are doing the groundwork and installing the girders. So the telescope's main mirror is not yet done, but they seem to be on track so far.
You may browse the "Programme" section of the meeting website and have a look at the talks uploaded there. Some of them have slides with images from the site showing the progress of the construction work.
I also spoke with some of the Chinese scientists who seemed interested in Einstein@Home as a tool for processing pulsar data taken with FAST. It is not yet clear whether we will get FAST data for Einstein@Home but we certainly would love that.
Cheers,
Benjamin
Einstein@Home Project
Hallo Benjamin! Thank you for
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Hallo Benjamin!
Thank you for your answer in due. I believe, we will heare in the field of science a lot from China within the next years. It´s inpressive to see, how they build up their capacilities.
Why do you take a back seat. I think the foils of your lecture are also of much interest to the participants here.
Kind regards and happy crunching
Martin