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Search of the Globular Cluster system for millisecond pulsars

Globular Clusters were proved to be rich in millisecond pulsar. About 50 % of the millisecond pulsars is contained in Globular Clusters. The discovery of additional milliseconds in Globular Clusters might represents a useful tool in the understanding of the Cluster dynamics, of the evolution of binary systems, and might ultimately provide a new sample of interesting and exotic objects. A proposal for a new systematic search of the Globular Cluster System for millisecond pulsar using the Parkes radiotelescope has been approved in 1999. In this search, deep integrations were performed in order to achieve a high sensitivity level, in the need to process huge (typically 8 GB) data set for each target. We have developed a new efficient parallel computing system using a network of workstation at the Bologna Astronomical Observatory.