Is SETI@home getting anywhere?

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Kobiashi Maru Send message Joined: 27 Aug 01 Posts: 2 Credit: 68,162 RAC: 0	Message 203131 - Posted: 4 Dec 2005, 23:30:01 UTC Last modified: 4 Dec 2005, 23:30:30 UTC Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible), there hasn't been a science newsletter or any other sort of progress report since July. Are you guys doing anything with all this data we're crunching? If so, could you take a few minutes to throw us a bone to let us know what you're doing with all the results? ID: 203131 ·

Monika Send message Joined: 27 Nov 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,830 RAC: 0	Message 203157 - Posted: 4 Dec 2005, 23:45:18 UTC - in response to Message 203131. ok ok im confused. wheni downloaded the thing my screensaver showed some graphs and analyzing data, now all it says is "BOINC is currently idle" what does that mean?! some1 answer pls ID: 203157 ·

kinhull Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Oct 03 Posts: 1029 Credit: 636,475 RAC: 0	Message 204037 - Posted: 5 Dec 2005, 20:59:04 UTC - in response to Message 203131. Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible), there hasn't been a science newsletter or any other sort of progress report since July. Are you guys doing anything with all this data we're crunching? If so, could you take a few minutes to throw us a bone to let us know what you're doing with all the results? According to Matt Lebofsky: in Science Newsletters We know it's ugly. We have a "current status" page in the works (waiting on one guy to fill in a few holes in the text). And hopefully more science newsletters following that. Edit: I just cleaned up that page and added several Planetary Society science newletters which brings everything a bit more up-to-date. in Have we found anything since the project started? SETI as a science has been going on for decades, and so far nothing has been found yet. Of course, as time goes on the ability to look for more types of signals in more parts of the sky improves, and more telescopes/academic institutions are added to the mix. Our group has been very busy ramping down one SETI project (SETI@home "classic") while ramping up another (SETI@home "enhanced" which uses a whole new networking platform called BOINC). As well we have other SETI projects that do not require volunteer computing (Optical SETI - looking for light pulses, and SERENDIP - another radio frequency search that scans more frequencies than SETI@home but not nearly as "deep"). We are also working on a better signal processing backend that will process the SETI@home signals as they come in, so our web site would be continually updated with the "current most interesting candidate signals," etc. Of course, nothing is all that interesting until we go back to the observatory, scan those coordinates again, and see the exact same signals. Join TeamACC Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. ID: 204037 ·

kinhull Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Oct 03 Posts: 1029 Credit: 636,475 RAC: 0	Message 204052 - Posted: 5 Dec 2005, 21:21:26 UTC - in response to Message 203157. ok ok im confused. wheni downloaded the thing my screensaver showed some graphs and analyzing data, now all it says is "BOINC is currently idle" what does that mean?! some1 answer pls I imagine this is caused by your BOINC client being out of work units to crunch, due to the server problems recently you may not have been able to download any new Seti work to crunch, hence "BOINC is currently idle". It might be an idea to consider attaching to some of the other projects that are currently available whilst you are waiting for Seti's servers to give you some more work. Of course, I could be wrong here. Join TeamACC Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. ID: 204052 ·

Richard Send message Joined: 23 Nov 05 Posts: 4 Credit: 7,459,497 RAC: 0	Message 204629 - Posted: 6 Dec 2005, 14:03:11 UTC Last modified: 6 Dec 2005, 14:33:23 UTC I'm having a similar problem with BOINC and the SETI@home project. I've got BOINC installed on two machines, my Windows XP SP2 box and a 2000 Advance Server box. The 2000 box is working fine. It gets new units every time it needs them. The XP box has been showing "BOINC is currently idle" since 12/02/05. I've checked my settings and am attached to the SETI project. What's the deal? :( Richard S. College of Business Lamar University Beaumont, Texas USA ID: 204629 ·

rsisto Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 135 Credit: 729,936 RAC: 0	Message 204681 - Posted: 6 Dec 2005, 15:27:40 UTC - in response to Message 204629. I'm having a similar problem with BOINC and the SETI@home project. I've got BOINC installed on two machines, my Windows XP SP2 box and a 2000 Advance Server box. The 2000 box is working fine. It gets new units every time it needs them. The XP box has been showing "BOINC is currently idle" since 12/02/05. I've checked my settings and am attached to the SETI project. What's the deal? :( Richard I see that the XP host is working all right, look here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=1812899 ID: 204681 ·

Richard Send message Joined: 23 Nov 05 Posts: 4 Credit: 7,459,497 RAC: 0	Message 204700 - Posted: 6 Dec 2005, 15:59:16 UTC Hmmmm...oddly enough mine has started working again within the past hour. ;) Oh well...nevermind. :) ID: 204700 ·

Wubinator Send message Joined: 25 Sep 03 Posts: 1 Credit: 402 RAC: 0	Message 204849 - Posted: 6 Dec 2005, 19:03:07 UTC Well i'm crunching the numbers here, and I'm getting new projects, but SETI isn't accepting my finished work lately ID: 204849 ·

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