from now (Oct 28, 2010) until "new server time"

Thanks for the update. Got all my results uploaded and have suppended the project so it doesn't keep trying to request.

Good luck with the new servers. Hopfully they will play nice. If not send them my way have a big hammer for configuring servers :)

Keep us posted!

PS. send a message to space telling ET not to phone :)
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We've decided to keep the project down until the new servers are up and running and the databases migrated to them.

The forums will stay up.

The back end and the upload server will stay up until we clear the outstanding results.

The time line we are looking at is about one month - two weeks for the servers to arrive and another two to get them going. We'll see as time goes on whether or not that's too aggressive.

The down time will be used for preparing the databases for migration. For example, on the science side, we can finally finish a big merge of the spike table and drop the old spike table. This will make the database smaller and easier to migrate.

We will also use the time for science processing and analysis.

More later...

Good luck with the new servers. Hopfully they will play nice. If not send them my way have a big hammer for configuring servers :)

You sound like my mate does! Everytime he has a computer problem, he wants to take his hammer to it! :-)

I've always managed to sort it out without needing to batter it! It's hard convincing him that it'll last longer if it's not in millions of pieces!

Giz.

No worries here. I'll be waiting for SETI and can't wait to see what difference the new servers will make to keeping SETI online.

Considering how long SETI has been around and how much data they have accumulated and processed, this server issue was bound to happen.
As a volunteer based and funded program, this has gone quite well over the last few years. Having some down time to implement new equipment and do some very much needed cleanup and mainitnence on the DB is a good thing.
There are so many Existing and NEW projects out there that my computers will be quite busy on other work, but I look forward to start processing WU's for SETI again.

Little green men are out there and I want to find them.
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Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!

Little green men are out there and I want to find them.

I find it amusing that although the project is set to be down for at least a month, boincstats.com shows it as being online, and with a green light for tasks available ^_^.

On a more serious note, however, that could be confusing for new boincers who see that SETI is up and with available work, they attach only to find out the project is really down and with no new work downloads.

Is there a setting that can be changed in the file that gets downloaded by these sites to say the project is down with no new work, or will the different site owners need to change it manually?
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I find it amusing that although the project is set to be down for at least a month, boincstats.com shows it as being online, and with a green light for tasks available ^_^.

Tasks available are probably going up as they timeout.

I'm with the time-out explanation... I had about 13K worth of credits "pending" the last time I saw a "pending" link on my "account" page (BTW, what happened to that link???), some of which dated back to June!
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I'm with the time-out explanation... I had about 13K worth of credits "pending" the last time I saw a "pending" link on my "account" page (BTW, what happened to that link???), some of which dated back to June!

A couple of things - there has been a note from Matt explaining what's going on with returned data and credits and the like.
There is little we as users can do to get WU that have stalled in the download process. There's bound to be a plan for those WU so don't worry about them.

I assume part of this extended down time is being devoted to clearing up the mess resulting from the numerous server and database crashes of the last few months, salvaging what data is salvageable, getting rid of duplicates, and deleting the real scrap data. This all takes time, in some cases its real human time and in others its machine time.
One advantage of this big stop is that when the go button is hit again the databases will be in a pretty good shape, so should be kinder on the servers than the rather tattered databases that were around before.
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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Surprise surprise, forgive me Jim Nabors!

Downloading workunits as I type.


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Kenn

What is left unsaid is neither heard, nor heeded.
Ce qui est laissé inexprimé ni n'est entendu, ni est observé.

I received 23 GPU WU's and one non-GPU WU for another machine earlier this afternoon. SETI@home lives!!
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Wowwowwow!
Got about 70 CPU-WUs since yesterday... Have the new servers arrived by an UFO?
I was prepared for at least 3 weeks of crunching without S@H...

Greets lost
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