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| Project |
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| Status | Active |
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| Category | Astrophysics |
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| Compute | CPU & GPU |
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| Requires | None |
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| Development |
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| Developer | Bruce Allen |
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| Author | Bruce Allen |
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| Sponsor | Max Planck Society |
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| Maintainer | Einstein@Home team |
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| Initial release | February 19, 2005
(21 years ago) |
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| Completed | No |
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| Repository | https://git.ligo.org/einsteinathome |
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| Software |
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| Written in | C, C++ |
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| Operating system | Windows, Linux, macOS, Android |
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| Size | ~50 MB |
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| BOINC statistics |
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| Stats as of | May 19, 2026
(0 years ago) |
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| Performance | 21 PFLOPS |
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| Active users | 14,531 |
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| Total users | 1,061,585 |
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| Active hosts | 24,489 |
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| Total hosts | 8,237,726 |
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| Analytics |
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| RAC | 18,500,000 |
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| Credit/day | 950,000 |
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| GPU performance | 15 PFLOPS |
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| CPU performance | 6 PFLOPS |
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| Metadata |
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| Website | https://einsteinathome.org/ |
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| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
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