Einstein@Home

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Einstein@home

Institution	University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and the Albert Einstein Institute
Status	Active
Official Launch	19 February 2005 (beta testing began 19 November 2004)
Platforms	Mac OS X, Mac OS X (NVIDIA GPU), Mac OS X, Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Linux/x86 (NVIDIA GPU), Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris 2.7, Windows, Windows (NVIDIA GPU), Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, Linux/x64
Web Site	http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

Einstein@Home searches through data collected by the LIGO and GEO600 gravitational wave detectors for evidence of periodic sources (such as spinning neutron stars), which would be the gravitational equivalent of pulsars. Einstein@Home was launched as part of the World Year of Physics 2005.