T -1 day. The end is very close now.

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As Major Hoople would so eloquently put it:

Fap!

(If you don't remember Major Hoople, then you weren't really there.)

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Hello,
What should I do with work units? I have work units with deadline in June. Cancel or not?
Best regards

Michael

Just let them complete...and then the project will be finished as much it can be...and you never know that one of those final remaining tasks could have a signal from ET in there :-)

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regards,
Tim
Founder, UK BOINC Team
Join us @ UK BOINC Team: http://www.ukboincteam.org.uk/newforum

I understand your reasoning, but I've been participating with SETI @ Home since I got my first Mac 5200 back in 1993. (Or was it '94? I don't even remember now.) The screen saver was a comforting old friend over the years. I may be personifying SETI @ Home too much, but I'm going to really miss it. It was the first program of it's sort that I ever ran.
R.I.P. SETI @ Home.
Later 'taters.
dc

The first screensaver ("Classic" S@H came out in 1999 I believe. I remember seeing it running for the first time back then and I was very intrigued and have been running it ever since (on and off, as other projects have also needed some of my computer cycles).

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regards,
Tim
Founder, UK BOINC Team
Join us @ UK BOINC Team: http://www.ukboincteam.org.uk/newforum

I can't believe the ride is almost over! It will be interesting to see what the results of the last 20 years of work show. I wonder how long it will take them work through all of this data though?! All of our computers, the last 20 years, now it is just on them.....it makes you wonder if it will be another decade before we hear of any results.

I will be moving over to Folding@home when the last work units are issued to help with the Covid-19 crisis. After that is past I will go back to the astro fields.

I never frequented these forums much, pretty much only when I had a problem...but the others have always been very kind and helpful and I wish everyone well!

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I can't believe the ride is almost over! It will be interesting to see what the results of the last 20 years of work show. I wonder how long it will take them work through all of this data though?! All of our computers, the last 20 years, now it is just on them.....it makes you wonder if it will be another decade before we hear of any results.

If my reading of the "Nebula" forum is correct each data analysis run doesn't take more than a couple days to ship the data and then run the processing.

The slow down is when organic human brains try to figure out another method to try to extract information from the noise when the last one wasn't quite good enough.

My impression is they are not actually shipping the entire 20 years worth of data for the "tests".

So step 1 is reach the point where they think it is reasonable to run the analysis against the entire 20 years of data.
Step 2 do so.
Step 3 write up the results.

I think Step 1 is going to be the hold up because it takes a while to come up with new/better/different ideas on how to extract information from the noise.
I think that if they are doing nothing but trying get the information/data out for the next several months they will have the time to make more progress faster.

My 2cents.

Tom

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

BYE

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Time to say goodbye.

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It was an honor serving this project.
Live long and prosper \\//_

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Semper fidelis...

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Ciao ciao, a presto

Thanks... it's been a pleasure!

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La Tierra de un Dios que no supo aceptar / su falso derecho a la libertad - Tierra Santa

Bájate mi primer eBook: Amaneceres - 8 relatos cortos de fantasía y un toque de terror

Well people - it's THAT day - a day that was going to happen at some point even if we didn't want it to go away.

While it has been a pleasure to be involved for so long it has not been witout it's frustrations too...but most of them were resolved and the project carried on, learning from some of it's mistakes and continuing to make others :-)

But we're here now.

So, a big thank you to everyone involved for providing us with a useful hobby, and with it's aim of finding ET never quite being achieved (up until now).

Hopefully most other distributed computing projects might see an increase in users as SETI crunchers move on to other goals. And with luck, one day this project might re-emerge from hibernation.

Best of luck to everyone, thanks for all the tasks and stay safe !!

PS: Can everyone else please stop downloading tasks - I'm trying to hit the 10 million mark by the end of today and I can't reach this total, if everyone else is grabbing whatever tasks are available ;-)

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regards,
Tim
Founder, UK BOINC Team
Join us @ UK BOINC Team: http://www.ukboincteam.org.uk/newforum

"For every ending there is a new beginning." Anon?

Hope it is as interesting as Seti@Home has been.

Tom

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

Besides the video card, what are your system specs? Thanks, Richard

The "main" SETI computer - built in 2015 for the most part (except the GPU and the EVO SSD):
CPU - Intel i5-4590 - 4 core/thread - nominal speed is 3.3 GHz, but it always is turbos to 3.5 or better (3.5 on 3-4 cores, 3.6 on 2, 3.7 if only using 1 core). Only using the stock cooler that came with the chip.
RAM - 16 GB of PC3-12800 running 9,9,9,27 (a pretty quick, low latency profile for this speed of RAM)
MB - ASRock H97M Pro4
GPU - EVGA Nvidia GTX 1060 - was only a tad over $220 when I got it.
Other various do-dads - An ASUS DVD burner, couple of SSD drives (Samsung 860 EVO 500GB, SanDisk 240BG), a spinner (WD blue 1TB), and backup power provided by a CyberPower 1500 VA inverter, which will keep the system running (even while fully loaded/crunching) for about 30-40 minutes.

I also have a laptop which primarily functions as a part of my entertainment system for things like Music, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, playing DVDs, etc. But I also allow that to (slowly) crunch while it's not busy otherwise:
ACER - Aspire E5-575 with an Intel i3-7100U - 2 core/4 thread. 2.4 GHz.
Upgraded by doubling the RAM to 8GB, adding a WD 240 GB 2280 SSD card. The i3 has Intel's HD 620 GPU, which is pretty weak.

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I thank the SETI team for 20 years of an enjoyable project spent. I've enjoyed watching the focus and application change over these many years. I've run SETI on so many different platforms (including an Alpha processor base system) built from scratch. Its been a fun adventure.

kudos on so many scientific and computing firsts.

Brian Parkhurst, member since 4/1/2000

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I am running my last SETI@home tasks on a Linux Virtual Machine hosted on a Windows 10 PC. The OS is OpenSuSE Tumbleweed development OS with kernel 5.5.11. It is a long way from Windows 98 and Slackware on a double boot PC with a Deschutes Intel PII when I started in 2004. So long SETI.
Tullio

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Been a member since July 1999 and have donated 10+ years of computer time...
Sad to see it end, but hopefully the team can figure a way to keep us all in the loop...

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Ok, here we all are. The "last day". The day "SETI@home will stop distributing work".
This kind of has a "Truman Show" feel to it. For those who have seen the movie...
--Truman at last exits his enclosed world. A place where he has been nurtured and safe
--his entire life. He finds an exit and goes through it to..." All those who followed "The
--Truman Show" on their televisions over all those years now don't know what to do
--with themselves now that the show is over. One of those viewers pauses and says,
--"what do we do now? His friend replies "let's see what else is on".

Be well !

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My first and last post: I started on 15th May 1999 and here we are on 31st March 2020 with the project ending later today. I have certainly enjoyed trying to contribute and I certainly hope the forthcoming academic paper(s) will illustrate what advances in astronomy, signal processing, computing,other areas of science and technology have been achieved.

Berkeley: when you do publish, please make the papers open access! I wouldn't like to see a paywall in the way of all of these contributors.

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