If you need assistance, I already pointed everyone away from this News forum to the proper places. See my previous post.

12/12/2011 20:34:25 SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/12/2011 20:35:24 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
12/12/2011 20:35:24 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer
12/12/2011 20:35:25 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
12/12/2011 20:36:24 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/12/2011 20:36:24 SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/12/2011 20:37:27 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/12/2011 20:37:27 SETI@home Message from server: Project has no tasks available
12/12/2011 21:45:20 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/12/2011 21:45:20 SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/12/2011 21:45:29 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/12/2011 21:45:29 SETI@home Message from server: Project has no tasks available
12/12/2011 21:56:01 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/12/2011 21:56:01 SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/12/2011 21:56:06 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/12/2011 21:56:06 SETI@home Message from server: No tasks sent
12/12/2011 22:01:13 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/12/2011 22:01:13 SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/12/2011 22:01:22 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/12/2011 22:01:22 SETI@home Message from server: Project has no tasks available
12/12/2011 22:12:25 SETI@home update requested by user
12/12/2011 22:12:28 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
12/12/2011 22:12:28 SETI@home Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
12/12/2011 22:12:36 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/12/2011 22:12:36 SETI@home Message from server: Project has no tasks available



Oh now I remember why I stopped doing SETI! Lack of work to do, and err, endless intermittent server problems that render my efforts futile! Compared to other projects, SETI@Home's infrastructure is woeful.

I'm going back to computing for clean water; for a cure for cancer; for a cure for muscular dystrophy; for a cure for AIDS. At least these actually work, and might actually bear fruit some day.

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There are two possibilities: either we are alone in the Universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur. C. Clarke.

Oh now I remember why I stopped doing SETI! Lack of work to do, and err, endless intermittent server problems that render my efforts futile! Compared to other projects, SETI@Home's infrastructure is woeful.

I'm going back to computing for clean water; for a cure for cancer; for a cure for muscular dystrophy; for a cure for AIDS. At least these actually work, and might actually bear fruit some day.

Perhaps if you read the Number Crunching forum (where you should have posted this rant), you'd better understand the problems. It's not that S@H has less infrastructure than the other projects, it's that it has so many more users. Check the Server Status page. There are 12 servers listed as hosting various services and programs, and the list of servers at the bottom has 13 -- and that's only the ones that the public can see and access for some reason; there are a bunch of others in the background. On the other hand Einstein@Home runs everything -- everything -- on ONE server. Why doesn't it have problems? Because it has far fewer people trying to contact that server.

Anway, I do not understand the hotheaded mentality of leaving Seti. Just leave Seti on your machine(s) along with other projects. If you can get work from Seti, great; if not, your computer will automatically get work from whatever other projects you're attached to. There's simply no reason to be huffy about it.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I've always said that these updates should be locked so that clueless people can't pollute them.

Cheers.

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