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 | Read about how to participate in grid computing projects that benefit humanity.
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SETI News |
7768 |
12 Jun 2007 |
| We're moving our usual Tuesday outage to today (Monday) in order to clean
up some problems we've been having with the BOINC database over the weekend.
The data servers and most web pages will be offline during this time.
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1 |
SETI News |
7189 |
11 Jun 2007 |
| We are back up after some additional complications
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1 |
SETI News |
7221 |
25 May 2007 |
| The database and project have been down for a few hours
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1 |
SETI News |
7448 |
25 May 2007 |
| We've solved yesterday's problem and we're back up.
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1 |
SETI News |
7044 |
21 May 2007 |
| If your BOINC client is not able to upload to or download from
the SETI@Home servers, look for the message Message from Server: Incomplete request received
in the BOINC Manager messages area
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1 |
SETI News |
7528 |
18 May 2007 |
| We got the new server yesterday, inserted our old disks and booted
it up
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1 |
SETI News |
7282 |
12 May 2007 |
| Our science database server died on Tuesday, May 1st.
We haven't been able to create new workunits since then (though we are still
accepting completed results)
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1 |
SETI News |
7502 |
9 May 2007 |
| Great news! Sun Microsystems is coming to the rescue
and will be replacing our inoperative science data base server
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1 |
SETI News |
7228 |
4 May 2007 |
| Happy May Day
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1 |
SETI News |
7789 |
1 May 2007 |
| Since the announcement of Gliese 581c
(the first possibly habitable extrasolar planet), we've been asked many times about
what we have seen during our observations of this red dwarf star.
Unf
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1 |
SETI News |
7962 |
30 Apr 2007 |
| Arecibo Observatory is currently shut down for three months to
clean up corrosion on the telescope platform (which includes safe
removal of lead paint)
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1 |
SETI News |
20780 |
23 Apr 2007 |
| As we are close to distributing new data recorded with the multi-beam
recorder, we decreased redundancy levels for current data
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1 |
SETI News |
6917 |
21 Apr 2007 |
| We are moving our database service around
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1 |
SETI News |
6933 |
4 Apr 2007 |
| This week our servers are being patched to include the new
Daylight Savings Time schedule
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1 |
SETI News |
7287 |
5 Mar 2007 |
| Yet another reason to run SETI@home - it can help
recover stolen laptops.
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1 |
SETI News |
7131 |
21 Feb 2007 |
| We are in process of making network changes which may have affected
your SETI@home client's ability to connect to our servers
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1 |
SETI News |
7916 |
13 Feb 2007 |
| GridRepublic
has been selected as a finalist for the Web Awards
at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival
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1 |
SETI News |
6767 |
5 Feb 2007 |
| We're currently in the middle of network/database testing
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1 |
SETI News |
6765 |
1 Feb 2007 |
| We are experiencing a database problem that is leading to erratic
work distribution
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1 |
SETI News |
7103 |
15 Jan 2007 |
| MySpace members: check out the
BOINC on MySpace group.
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1 |
SETI News |
7248 |
6 Jan 2007 |
| We recovered from database problems over the past weekend
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1 |
SETI News |
6540 |
3 Jan 2007 |
| BOINC's new Online Help system
lets you get help from volunteers
by talking with them using Skype.
Volunteers speak several languages.
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1 |
SETI News |
7064 |
4 Dec 2006 |
| SETI@home Classic users:
you can now
transfer your workunit totals to your SETI@home/BOINC account,
even if you lost your Classic password.
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1 |
SETI News |
7251 |
4 Dec 2006 |
| Check out new add-on software:
the SETI@home Toolbar
for Firefox and IE on Windows, and
[url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~eara
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1 |
SETI News |
8163 |
7 Nov 2006 |
| Vote for SETI@home (or not) in the
BOINCcast.de screensaver contest
(in German)
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1 |
SETI News |
7019 |
5 Nov 2006 |
| Dr
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1 |
SETI News |
7191 |
3 Nov 2006 |
| Check out this SETI@home wallpaper from Scott Linder:
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1 |
SETI News |
7896 |
25 Oct 2006 |
| We had a couple minor server issues over the weekend.
Details in Technical News.
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1 |
SETI News |
7244 |
15 Oct 2006 |
| Eric Korpela and David Anderson were interviewed today
by Mike O'Connell of BOINC UK.
Many topics were covered, including the question of
credit and optimized clients.
Download a recording of the conversation (MP3, 13.5 MB) from
[url=
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1 |
SETI News |
7208 |
4 Oct 2006 |
| Update: We are wrapping up a database upgrade and ran out of work
to send out
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1 |
SETI News |
7651 |
4 Oct 2006 |
| If you're interested in donating time -
rather than computing power - to help Astronomical research,
check out Clickworkers
(from NASA Ames Research Center)
and [url=http://stardustathome.ssl.b
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1 |
SETI News |
7186 |
12 Sep 2006 |
| Outage update: Though we moved a bulk of the data onto the new science
database server over the weekend, there is still plenty to do before
we can start using this new server
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1 |
SETI News |
7339 |
11 Sep 2006 |
| We ran out of work to send out due to our science database going down.
More details in Technical News.
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1 |
SETI News |
7253 |
8 Sep 2006 |
| The Planetary Society article on the new multibeam
receiver and data recorder is now available
as an MP3 file,
thanks to the efforts of BOINC UK.
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1 |
SETI News |
6976 |
8 Sep 2006 |
| Check out the screensaver background image
submitted by a user (and send us your own).
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1 |
SETI News |
7434 |
4 Sep 2006 |
| GridRepublic,
which lets you manage your account on SETI@home
and other BOINC projects, recently moved into beta test.
It was written up by CNET.
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1 |
SETI News |
6940 |
24 Aug 2006 |
| Teams may now order
SETI@home T-shirts and mugs with their team logo added.
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1 |
SETI News |
7654 |
21 Aug 2006 |
| Read the latest
science
newsletter from the Planetary Society about our new
multi-beam receiver.
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1 |
SETI News |
6904 |
14 Aug 2006 |
| Spread the word about SETI@home -
send email to your friends and family.
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1 |
SETI News |
7696 |
28 Jul 2006 |
| BOINC user survey:
due to a bug in our software, answers to the question
'Which are the most important factors when you decide whether to participate in a BOINC project?' were not recorded correctly.
Please [url=http://boinc.berke
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1 |
SETI News |
7138 |
22 Jul 2006 |
| Please fill out the BOINC user survey.
Your responses will help us improve SETI@home
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1 |
SETI News |
7039 |
15 Jul 2006 |
| We had a power glitch this morning that brought down our
science database
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1 |
SETI News |
7025 |
14 Jul 2006 |
| Last night we had a lab-wide power outage to diagnose
electrical problems in a nearby facility.
More detail available in Technical News.
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1 |
SETI News |
6786 |
7 Jul 2006 |
| Last week the new multi-beam data recorder was installed
at Arecibo Observatory and has already taken some data
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1 |
SETI News |
6992 |
15 Jun 2006 |
| There will be a brief outage today at 17:00 UTC for database maintenance
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1 |
SETI News |
6772 |
2 Jun 2006 |
| At 13:30 UTC yesterday the SETI@home upload/download server failed
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1 |
SETI News |
7492 |
30 May 2006 |
| The costs of electricity, both monetary and environmental,
are increasing.
Be aware of the
energy considerations
associated with SETI@home and volunteer computing.
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1 |
SETI News |
7136 |
17 May 2006 |
| All of our splitters have been altered to create workunits for SETI@home enhanced
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1 |
SETI News |
6941 |
16 May 2006 |
| A cascade of problems today caused inability to return results and later, the inability to download new work
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1 |
SETI News |
7393 |
16 May 2006 |
