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Matt ![]() Send message Joined: 15 Jun 06 Posts: 1 Credit: 816,105 RAC: 2 ![]() |
I've been watching my favourite screen saver for 14 years, and always felt excited when I saw the three green bars. I hope the triplet results will be published, just for scientific curiosity. If the results are published on https://arxiv.org/ can a link be sent out on the BOINC manager notices please? Looking forward to reading the results. Science! |
halfempty ![]() Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 97 Credit: 35,236,901 RAC: 114 ![]() ![]() |
I remember making a small donation a long time ago to the original fundraiser sponsored by The Planetary Society to get S@H off the ground. Back then I never would have imagined that this little distributed computing experiment would have lasted, and kept my attention, for 20+ years. It doesn't surprise me that in the "publish or perish" scientific community this point had to come. I would like to thank not only the project staff, but the wonderful volunteers that crunch, and help, and code, and just overall make this a great community to be a part of. Hopefully I will continue to see the same names both out there, and back here someday. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3824 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 ![]() ![]() |
But the project changed it's mind and went for a real time scenario. It soon found that they would need a m/c costing around $40,000 to do it. The money was simply not there. I can tell you precisely and evidentially why it wasn't there: because it was not asked for! Please have a look at December's donations. This is when we had the fundraiser for the disk array... because it was asked for. We needed $10,894. Instead that month raised $46,501. That's enough for the real-time Nebula system right there. I wrote a detailed proposal earlier it could just be a paddym replica server to sync off the science database until it was "caught up" and then it could be offlined and the drive array sent to ATLAS for Nebula processing. When the run was done the array could sent back, resynced to the updated science database and the process repeated. One week-long fundraiser could buy one of those. All they need to do is ask... look at how well it turns out when they do. ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 18 Credit: 141,650,178 RAC: 244 ![]() ![]() |
How curious that this is now coming to its end. I have been debating slowing my work and killing off a few older machines since I have achieved my own personal goal of making it 20 years with S@H. I will still be around but will search out another worthwhile project to apply my workhorses to. I was never very active in forums, but have enjoyed being a part of something bigger than all of us. Cheers to you all! ~Arych ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11443 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 ![]() ![]() |
I'm sad to see it go and as a personal tragedy I won't be able to say I crunched S@H 24/7 for 21 years. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66497 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 ![]() ![]() |
Well I have been crunching here for 17 years, once the last Seti wu on My PC is done, I'll be going over to Milkyway where I have a long dormant account and put Seti on My PC to sleep in case someone does decide to use a new project here for something. I doubt I'll get the lighter case(16KG vs 6KG) and the 4 Gigabyte Gaming OC GTX 1660Ti's online in time for Seti's last wu's, but I'm sure there is more work to be done out there and milkyway has an opencl app so I'm not worried. CA HSR built a foundation, is laying Track! PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550 Loco, US's 1st HST ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1858 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 ![]() ![]() |
Have always considered myself a "newbie" here, but in looking at it now I guess I've been here for the last 1/3 of the project's run. Has been an interesting learning experience. ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 ![]() |
How many Evangelicals have Accepted Monies fO decades under false pretense Existence of a GOD? Is there Acceptence of Monies over decades fo da false pretense of Existence of Extra-Terrestrials aka ET????? What is Difference? Invisible Eeing in dA Sky. Invisible ET in dA Sky. I see NO Difference. Lots of Monies have changed hands fO an INVISIBLE Being of Unknown Origin. Hmmmmm. Lawsuits????? Hey. Get a grip. Only Joshin' ya. ![]() May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 00 Posts: 1 Credit: 805,036 RAC: 7 ![]() |
oh no :-( This project was a part of my youth. I learned Linux just because the Linux client at that time ran better on my Pentium 1 MMX 166MHz than on Windows. With my Blog Post about SETI I was also able to convince a lot of new people for the project. I hope you'll reconsider. SAFIT |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 19 Feb 01 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,047,245 RAC: 1 ![]() |
Wait...whut? Who am I without SETI@Home running on my computer? *wanders off aimlessly* Thanks, SETI... it's been awesome to be a part of this! And it's good timing, as I recently finally passed 1 million total credits! I hope you find something in all that data. Peace. |
![]() Send message Joined: 12 Oct 02 Posts: 18 Credit: 14,047,388 RAC: 9 ![]() |
Hello! I am very very sad to see this project go down. So it is also time for me to end crunching after it is "hibernated". |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3824 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 ![]() ![]() |
Is there Acceptence of Monies over decades fo da false pretense of Existence of Extra-Terrestrials aka ET????? The difference is, at least scientifically, there is no pretense of what's out there. (Never heard a SETI scientist pontificate what they are sure extraterrestrials want us to do, for example.) There may be nothing at all, or there may be civilizations galore, but we'll never know which if we don't listen continuously until we find out. ![]() |
Carlos Ortiz Send message Joined: 11 Dec 06 Posts: 1 Credit: 24,147 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I'm terribly sorry to state the obvious (to many of us), but this decision is truly disappointing and runs against SETI's original spirit . To all of us who have been helping over the years, leaving our computers on for hours (and years) , hoping to make a contribution to such an epochal and life changing event, it is like a slap on the face! In other words, it seems that we have only been contributing, over the years and at our own expense, to an altogether different enterprise than what SETI@home was created for... Dr C Oritz |
J. Mileski ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jun 02 Posts: 632 Credit: 172,116,532 RAC: 572 ![]() ![]() |
I'm going to keep seti@home open and accepting tasks for the foreseeable future for the odd resend, and possibly any testing they may want to do, who knows, maybe they will come up with a way to analyze the results in the database with a distributed project. In the mean time, I'm giving my cpus to Rosetta@home, and my gpus to Einstein@home. |
KWSN-Sir Robin's Minstrels Send message Joined: 19 Aug 03 Posts: 21 Credit: 28,056,195 RAC: 23 ![]() ![]() |
Well after 17ish years it's off to Einstein...hope something turns up in all that data we crunched! Not yet time to eat the minstrels...no rejoicing! |
Ianab Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 732 Credit: 20,635,586 RAC: 5 ![]() |
I loaded Rosetta but SETI@HOME still keeps running. I've suspended them, however, when resuming Rosetta the SETI@HOME starts again. How do I stop SETI@HOME? I was going to let the SETI finish. When you add a new project BOINC looks are the "resource share" numbers, and decides that it's previously spent 100% of it's time on SETI, and 0% on the new project. So it concentrates on the new project to get the figues back into balance. After a few days of Rosetta the % will balance out, and it will spend time on both projects. You don't have to "do" anything, and the deadline is merely the day they stop sending new work,. Work sent the day before is still going to be acceptedback, I assume for at least a couple of months, so you have plenty of time, and can even do some more SETI , up until you don't get any more work. It's sad to see this phase shut down, but I understand the reasons behind it. I'm already signed up with assorted other projects that interest me. so no problem when the works here stops. Einstein is also astronomy based, but looks for pulsars and black holes (with some success), so I'm happy to contribute there. |
Eric Nylund Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 7 Credit: 6,467,074 RAC: 47 ![]() ![]() |
I signed up for SETI@home May 22, 1999 live and it has been an exciting trip ever since. Through various versions of hardware and software over the past 20 years it has been fascinating to be a part of the evolution of technology and more importantly, the evolution of our understanding of the cosmos. I'm sad the project is being "retired" but I am also proud to be a part of it and I will stay with it until the end. Thanks for the ride! |
![]() Send message Joined: 25 Oct 19 Posts: 1 Credit: 18,035 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Will miss doing SETI@Home but I look forward to doing tasks for other projects! Just hope Seti@home comes back in the future. |
![]() Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8964 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Wow! Will miss this place....best wishes to all ![]() ![]() |
Lorantz Rogers Send message Joined: 30 May 14 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,273,503 RAC: 1 ![]() |
Im sad to hear this, I've been running SETI@Home on my computers for at least 10 years now. |
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