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Einstein@Home is a volunteer distributed computing project that searches through data from the LIGO detectors for evidence of continuous gravitational wave sources, which are expected from objects such as rapidly spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars. A sister project examines radio telescope data from the Arecibo Observatory, searching for radio pulsars. Running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform, Einstein@Home is hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany). Its director is Bruce Allen. On August 12, 2010, the first discovery by Einstein@Home of a previously undetected radio pulsar J2007+2722, found in data from the Arecibo Observatory, was published in Science. The project had discovered 49 pulsars as of December 2014. Einstein@Home is free software released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.