Orbit@home goes live with real data

Spear · 2010-10-14 18:38:23

Orbit@home is a project using distributed computing to track various Near Earth Objects in attempt to predict their orbits, and create more efficient ways to scan the sky for them. http://orbit.psi.edu/?q=node/27 So far the project is CPU only, so no GPU crunching sadly. Might be a bit more of a topical project with this…

14-10-2010 06:38PM

#1

Spear

Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,591 CMod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2001

Posts: 24100

Orbit@home is a project using distributed computing to track various Near Earth Objects in attempt to predict their orbits, and create more efficient ways to scan the sky for them.

http://orbit.psi.edu/?q=node/27

So far the project is CPU only, so no GPU crunching sadly.

Might be a bit more of a topical project with this near passing object last Tuesday.

http://www.universetoday.com/75457/breaking-news-small-neo-could-pass-within-60000-km-of-earth-on-tuesday/

0