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SETI News Send message Joined: 16 Dec 09 Posts: 387 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation. We're doing this for two reasons: 1) Scientifically, we're at the point of diminishing returns; basically, we've analyzed all the data we need for now. 2) It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper. However, SETI@home is not disappearing. The web site and the message boards will continue to operate. We hope that other UC Berkeley astronomers will find uses for the huge computing capabilities of SETI@home for SETI or related areas like cosmology and pulsar research. If this happens, SETI@home will start distributing work again. We'll keep you posted about this. If you're currently running SETI@home on your computer, we encourage you to attach to other BOINC-based projects as well. Or use Science United and sign up to do astronomy. You can stay attached to SETI@home, of course, but you won't get any jobs until we find new applications. We're extremely grateful to all of our volunteers for supporting us in many ways during the past 20 years. Without you there would be no SETI@home. We're excited to finish up our original science project, and we look forward to what comes next. |
 Gary Charpentier     Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30936 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 
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Say it isn't so |
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Microns Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 12 Credit: 13,074,878 RAC: 14
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So long and thanks for all the fish! |
-= Vyper =-  Send message Joined: 5 Sep 99 Posts: 1652 Credit: 1,065,191,981 RAC: 2,537 
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😬😧😞  _________________________________________________________________________ Addicted to SETI crunching! Founder of GPU Users Group |
Michael Rabasa  Send message Joined: 28 Oct 10 Posts: 11 Credit: 13,645,919 RAC: 100
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WTF? |
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Dave Cummings Send message Joined: 16 May 09 Posts: 219 Credit: 1,193,729 RAC: 0 
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No way come on The Boeing 787 Dreamliner register. Www.b787register.co.uk The world's most in depth B787 movements site |
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rcthardcore Send message Joined: 23 Nov 08 Posts: 48 Credit: 1,306,006 RAC: 0
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This sucks. Now I will have to abort all of my tasks. |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21019 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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... Now I will have to abort all of my tasks. No aborts are needed for your presently running WUs... Keep searchin'! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Mr. Kevvy  Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3797 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 
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This is sad, but not unexpected. Nebula has been in the works for a while and was designed to process the two decades of data we've accumulated. The project always had a fixed lifespan pending getting to this state. I had hoped that it would continue with data being collected, processed and put into Nebula at the same time, but this may not be technically possible. In the interim, the greatest contribution to the world that SETI@Home has made is the development of BOINC. There are dozens of worthy BOINC projects out there to switch our computers to, all needing volunteers. While they'll never replace SETI@Home for me, they'll at least keep the hardware we paid for busy, and who knows... we might still discover something. (And of course we can only now start to discover something here... all of our data has sat idle and waiting until now!) So there is still hope. 
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Boiler Paul Send message Joined: 4 May 00 Posts: 232 Credit: 4,965,771 RAC: 64
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So long and thanks for all the fish! The Vogons must be on their way in their big yellow ships |
Freewill   Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 766 Credit: 354,398,348 RAC: 11,693
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After 20 years of supporting SETI@Home, this is a milestone. I'm glad there will be a focus on analyzing our results and hope there are some interesting ones to share. Meanwhile, I hope there are other analyzes this global and dedicated group of volunteers can support. Look forward to hearing about those. Roger 
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21019 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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... and writing this up in a scientific journal paper... There must be also some good mileage in writing up how the various optimized apps came to be and for how they were optimized and for their contribution to pushing our search farther and faster and more efficiently...? A fantastic feat all round for the community inspiration and dedication! Here's looking forward to what progress we make next. Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Paul King Send message Joined: 21 Aug 19 Posts: 39 Credit: 681,916 RAC: 0
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What about all the breakthrough data that's being collected right now?? What was the all the hard drive's needed for that I donated money used for? Disappointed. :( |
Ian&Steve C.  Send message Joined: 28 Sep 99 Posts: 4267 Credit: 1,282,604,591 RAC: 6,640
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When you get the analyzed results sorted through, at least let me know how many aliens my systems found :D Sad to see it go. but i'll keep my ear to the ground in case it ever comes back. Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours  
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Ian&Steve C. Send message Joined: 28 Sep 99 Posts: 4267 Credit: 1,282,604,591 RAC: 6,640
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What about all the breakthrough data that's being collected right now?? the money will be used for the disks for the replacement database system. this system will be used for Nebula. Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours
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Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 
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It does not want my done tasks? |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21019 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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It does not want my done tasks? Note: s@h will still receive your completed work. At the end of this month, no further work will be sent out for processing. Then there is a lot more work for the scientists at s@h to do to continue to process the many results you and many others have sent over the last 20 years and more... Fantastic work all round! Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Onur Ulusoy  Send message Joined: 27 Jul 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,288,755 RAC: 1 
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(german) Hoffentlich auch in Deutschland erscheinend, bzw. den deutschen Zeitschriften. Online in deutsch wäre natürlich optimal. Ich habe mich an dem Projekt ab dem 27. Juli 1999 beteiligt mit einem Pentium 133Mhz ohne MMX. Später über BOiNC mit über 20 Projekten an verschiedenen Rechnern mit machen lassen. |
Bernie Vine  Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9956 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328
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It does not want my done tasks? Currently there is a problem with reporting tasks and will hopefully be sorted soon. Tasks are expected to still be accepted up to and hopefully past the 31st March |
Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36410 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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