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Greg Flood
I was a Human Resources Manager at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, when I first learned of SETI. The headquarters is...

Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up
Every Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we begin a five hour data distribution outage for database and systems maintenance. The upload/download servers will be offline during this time. Afterwards you may experience connectivity issues for several more hours as the servers catch up with demand.
11 Jul 2018, 18:25:32 UTC

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"Are we alone?" on VICE
The HBO series VICE will be broadcasting an episode with a segment entitled "Are we alone?" starting June 1 at 11pm EST. It will be available on HBO streaming service, HBO GO, at 7:30pm EST.

The segment includes interviews with the father of modern SETI, Frank Drake, and a SETI@home volunteer, John Fluth, who has been a part of the project nearly as long as I have. We'll be interested in seeing your reaction to this piece.

Trailers are available through facebook and twitter.
30 May 2018, 5:03:57 UTC · Discuss

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Dropped packets
The UC data center switched over to a new firewall this morning. Since then packets into and out of the data center have been suffering drops. The Data Center staff is debugging the problem, we'll probably be dropping packets until it's resolved.
30 Apr 2018, 17:23:04 UTC · Discuss

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Unexplained database slowness
The database has gotten hung up a couple of times with slow queries. I've restarted it once and that seems to have helped. It'll take several hours to be sure.

If that didn't solve the problem, it probably means the index the server uses to choose workunits to send has gotten corrupted. If I need to rebuild it, we'll probably be down most of tomorrow while I do so.
31 Mar 2018, 6:11:01 UTC · Discuss

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Slow network connection to Green Bank
Something is happening to the network connection between Green Bank and Berkeley that is slowing down the rate at which we can transfer data for splitting. We've opened a trouble ticket with campus networking services. Hopefully they will be able to find and fix the problem quickly. Until then, work may be in short supply.
29 Jan 2018, 18:45:35 UTC · Discuss

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Long outage...
The outage ran long today because we needed to run down to the data center to swap some bad drives with new ones and reboot a few of the machine to pick up kernel and mysql updates.

Sorry for the delay.
24 Jan 2018, 7:17:44 UTC · Discuss

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