I know that any new system is bound to have bugs, but this is going from bad to worse. When the SETI@Home home page posted, on 22 June 2004, "A new version of SETI@home based on BOINC, is now available. We'll be transitioning to this new version" I went ahead and changed over to the BOINC system. I thought it would be better that the old system. Well it is not. With the old system I would complete a work unit and move tight on to the next one. WIth the BOINC system what I usually have as my screen saveer is "No work available". Yes-siry-bob that really makes me feel like I am doing my little part to advance human contact to other beings out there - NOT! By now, if I had stayed with the old system I would have completed much more work and felt like I was doing some good. as it is, I feel that I am wasting my resources and get notthing but frustration. The notes from the Project are full of tech babble and really tell me nothing. What I want to know is how soon you can get this system working to a point where I can get some work avaliable and when I can expect the resources I am making available to be accounted for on my account in terms of work units completed. I am not seeking the leader board, I just like to keep track of how much I am getting do.

be patient. i got 4 wu's today.
ttyl
Jeff (Nightowl)
All your answers in one spot:
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/transition.php
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If you dont like Boinc, then go back to classic seti.

If you're having problems getting work from S@H, then you could always participate in a second project such as Predictor@Home which also uses the BOINC client, whilst S@H is down.

At the moment I have S@H configured for 90% with P@H configured for 10%. This seems to strike a happy balance for me!

Part of this is just that the servers are a bit overwhelmed. A different part is that S@H1 has been recrunching the same WUs several dozen times at times. BOINC S@H has promissed not to do this, instead, we are all encouraged to attach to a few BOINC projects as they become available. I know that it is frustrating not to have work, but at the moment between S@H and Predictor, I have filled the queues on all of the computers that I have running BOINC.