Star (Finding) Power: Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 18:00
in Astronomy & Space
A massive distributed computing network known as the Einstein@Home project has made its second big celestial find in the past six months--a pulsar 15 kilometers in diameter located more than 30,000 light years from Earth. Not a bad track record for a network that runs on processing power donated from computers worldwide. The finding represents one of many discoveries that Einstein@Home's creator expects in the coming years. [More]