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EINSTEIN@HOME User Of The Day

04 October, 2009 22:02 CST6CDT

I was honored by everyone on the EINSTEIN@HOME Project for displaying my profile on the home page and designated as the user of the day!

Einstein@Home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector. It also searches for radio pulsars in binary systems, using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.

EINSTEIN@HOME - User Of The DayI have been a user since February of 2005, the same time in which I founded the team "FreeBSD".

Around the time of my "user of the day" status, here was the statistics for myself and our team:

Einstein@Home
Account Data
Time: 05 Oct 2009 03:02:57 UTC
User TotCred: 1,382,410.51
User AvgCred: 2,954.84

Team: FreeBSD
Team TotCred: 13,495,611.42
Team AvgCred: 20,339.28

Our team home page can be found here: http://einstein.extracted.org/

Thank you, I am honored!

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Main Entry:   spew   Pronunciation:   \ˈspyü\
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spīwan; akin to Old High German spIwan to spit, Latin spuere, Greek ptyein   First Known Use: before 12th century

intransitive verb
  1. VOMIT
  2. to come forth in a flood or gush
  3. to ooze out as if under pressure : EXUDE
transitive verb
  1. VOMIT
  2. to send or cast forth with vigor or violence or in great quantity <a volcano spewing out ash> —often used with out —spew·er noun
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