A Low Cost Distributed Computing Approach to Pulsar Searches at a Small College

• Main Authors: Cantino, Andrew, Crawford, Fronefield, Dhital, Saurav, Dougherty, John P, Sherman, Reid
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 07.07.2004
• Subjects: Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

We describe a distributed processing cluster of inexpensive Linux machines developed jointly by the Astronomy and Computer Science departments at Haverford College which has been successfully used to search a large volume of data from a recent radio pulsar survey. Analysis of radio pulsar surveys re...