AstroPulse/BOINC

• AstroPulse will be the first science application to use BOINC.

• It is a good “beta-test” application:

  • Simple data analysis/reduction.
  • Algorithm can be highly parallelised.
  • “Only” needs fifty thousand computers. (SETI@home uses half a million!)
    • We can boost that by adding a pulsar search

• Other projects which plan to use BOINC:

  • SETI@home II
  • Global climate modeling/prediction (Oxford)
  • Fun things Eric wants to do if he can find the time.

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