This news makes me really sad.

I wasn’t volunteering for this project since the very beginning but it wasn’t far off. I started when I was in my last year of school. IT was exciting and full of interesting people doing interesting things. The notion of distributed computing was pretty new and SETI for me was just the right grade of science and whimsy. It was something I was proud to hang my hat on.

Over the years IT has started to seriously suck. There seems far more maliciousness, oppression, and greed than wonder, fun, and hope. SETI I’ve realized was kinda my rock. It was my ‘we’ll always have Paris’ app. A bright light of fun and wonder. Something that I was just happy to be a part of. Even if it was only a small part.

And now the music fades. It has to. And I hope that the project was a success.

Thanks for more than 20 years of hope, and wonder, and reasons to look at the sky folks. I will raise a pint on the 31st to be sure.

Cheers everyone..

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:'(

Bad news but maybe there will be new data to process at some time. I've reactivated my account some time ago after a few years of nothing and boom ... seti went down :(

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I almost made it to 20 years...
Maybe I have some data crunching enough to see me through to May!

Finally the end of an era! :(

It was a pleasure to be part of it, but life goes on.
I hope, there will be something really interesting found inside the data though.

Keep us informed and crunch on!

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Aloha, Uli

Well I joined Feb. 2014 and since summer until Jan. 27th of this year I was inactive :D but even for short period it was amazing.
Hope it will search E.T.I. through the scan of gravitational waves too one day.

edit: universe@home is interesting alternative while no work from seti@home

Bye for now.

Thanks. This is all I can say to those who for many years gave hope for a real miracle in this world of ignorance and dullness, the only thing that can and bkdu do is continue to support and believe in the day when everyone will have to learn that the world does not end behind their nose.

We accepted it as a mission. We wish the results to be obtained. May it be easy for the employees. Thanks to those who contributed. We look forward to the result.

Thank you to everyone. This Project folded in with my Science Fiction Addiction.

Now I will have to get by on my (lessor) Science Addiction.

Let's bend the future towards a little less poverty, one bit at a time.


Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

Hi:

It is sad to see you go. I have been using my computer for what I call Seti since my first computer in I think the 80s via a modem. I am not sure it was called Seti@home at that time. Over this time, while I have only accomplished 3,142,045 of work, but, I have felt a part of something big. Best of luck to everyone who has worked on this project.

Star Pirate
Ed Chimney
EdChimney@gmail.com

Reading the news post that SETI@Home is going into "Hibernation" as of 31 MAR 2020 reads a little bit like the US PATENT & TRADE OFFICE declaring they were going to shut down in 1899 because "Everything that can be invented has been". It was obviously an incorrect statement. Notwithstanding there is a huge backend amount of data that requires analysis, there remains huge quadrants of the sky that have NEVER been scanned, either by Arecibo or the Green Bank Telescope - so from my perspective, the work is not even close to being done. If anything, this makes the case for the need for MORE data crunchers, not hibernating the dissemination of work units for front-end analysis using the SETI@Home app (even all these years later embedded in BOINC). I have been a loyal SETI@Home end user and supporter since July, 2001 - so that works out to going on almost 19-years of continuous 24/7x365 dedicated CPU resource usage - and I am disappointed to see that effort coming to a close when so much more space is yet to be scanned for potential signals that are at the core of this mission.

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Unless I am greatly mistaken, there is raw data, there is completed work that we have done, then there is further work done on all of the data to get every drop of information into a research presentable fashion. What they are saying is they are so far head, on the first actions and need a lot of time to finish the final reporting of data. I am not sure volunteers, at hone, can do the further processing and evaluating that is now required. Therefore the program will "hibernate" until such a time as they can further process and report based on what they have at this time. I suspect this will take a great amount of time. When that is done the project may come back to life.

I have been with this project form the beginning, and this will be the first time in years I have not had a computer running 24/7. I will miss the project, but I realize we had a very important job to do, and now, for the ,most part, regardless of reason it is done ( as far as we are concerned). Time to sit back and watch for GREAT findings, and hope for it's return.

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"It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you are not"
- Andre Gide (1869-1951)

At the end all ends in the old sentence: Publish or perish!

IMHO They don't have the resources (manpower & money) to keep both sides (collecting data & analyzing) running, so they need to choose one and the only way to stay alive is by publish te findings. So to do that analyze the data collected on all this years has to be prioritized.

WE could not like, but if was my decision i choose the same path. Just hope they find something on this >20 years of crunched data, and be sure if they find something the resources (money and manpower) will flow again in large quantities on both sides.

my 0.02

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I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in this project. Been there almost from the start, but haven't really done any work for a few years now (5 or so years maybe?). As a last greeting I reconfigured BOINC on my old Linux workstation and re-attached to the SETI@Home project. A small Radeon RX550 is currently saying bye-bye to SETI@Home by computing my final WUs.

It's been a great time!

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3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP HiNT Rev.A 3700 prototype, dead HiNT bridge

Even though no additional data will be distributed, will the system continue to accept data we process beyond March 31?

Thanks for the many, many years of SETI work through this project. Sorry to see this go and i wish there were another BOINC app we could run to help you guys.

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I've been crunching for years on a PII Deschutes, first on Window 98 then on a dual boot PC with various Linux distros. I started adding some graphic boards, then switched to a SUN Workstation with an Opteron CPU which lasted 11 year. It came with a Solaris OS but Solaris had no BOINC client, so I switched to Suse Linux. I installed a more powerful graphic board and also VirtualBox, which gained me an invitation by CERN to join Test4Theory@home. the first BOINC project to use VirtualBox. Now I have a Ryzen 5 1400 AMD CPU with Windows 10 and a OpenSuse Tumbleweed Virtual Machine. Recently I joined Science United but it is only giving me Milkyway@home and Asteroids@home tasks, both CPU and GPU. I also have a HP laptop running OpenSuse Linux Leap 15.0.
Tullio

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Even though no additional data will be distributed, will the system continue to accept data we process beyond March 31?

The indication was yes... new work won't be generated/sent beyond Mar. 31st, but the servers will still be up to receive work in progress and send out re-sends in the case of invalids and inconclusives, etc.

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I started in early July 1999. Have [processed 43 million work units. I will the project was around so I could say I have been around 20 years, Almost have. Ill find another project and hope that someone finds the funds to restart SETI.

I have truly enjoyed being a part of this project.

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This is a very sad day. I just received a server I was going to dedicate to the SETI project.

Well, after being a member of this project since 2000ish.. I'd like to thank everyone on the project who made this possible. It was truly a great ride and I'm sad to see it end.

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