News

Syracuse University rises to the top!

February 28, 2013

Thank you and congratulations to Syracuse University whose recent average credit value in excess of 3 million is one of the largest that we have seen in the project's history. This represents about 4% of Einstein@Home's total computing power. There must be a lot of Syracuse University campus computers crunching Einstein@Home! Without your help a few weeks ago, I don't think we wouldn't have made it past the 1 Petaflop mark.

Einstein@Home passes 1 Petaflop of computing power!

January 06, 2013

Congratulations and thank you to all Einstein@Home volunteers: sometime shortly after January 1st 2013, Einstein@Home passed the 1 Petaflop computing-power barrier. To put this in context, according to the current (November 2012) Top-500 computing list, there are only 23 computers on our planet that deliver this much computing power.

(One Petaflop is 1,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second.)

Congratulations and thank you again, and keep on crunching!

Can Einstein@Home pass the 1 Petaflop (1000 Teraflop) barrier?

December 10, 2012

The computing power of Einstein@Home has exceeded 950 Teraflops for the first time since the project was begun in 2005. Based on the rate that our computing power has been growing, I am hopeful that Einstein@Home will pass the 1 Petaflop barrier before the end of 2012. Einstein@Home volunteers: please keep your computers running over the holiday season, and please sign up any new ones that you might receive as a gift!

Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home

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