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Latest SETI@home news.

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Rattledagger

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From a message hidden away in the seti@home-message-board:

We're basically waiting on some new hardware to arrive
which will vastly increase our ability to handle all the
current SETI@home classic users. These items will arrive
early in the new year. Once everything is configured,
everybody's being shifted to BOINC and classic will be
turned off for good.

Of course, with this new hardware, we will also be able to
turn BOINC pending credit back on.

Keeping classic SETI@home running forever will actually
be physically (as well as fiscally) impossible. We need
to cannibalize that hardware for BOINC, or turn it off
as our server closet cannot handle any more heat from the
excess machinery.

- Matt (Lebofsky)
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So it appears Seti-Classic will definitely run into 2005. I would have never guessed that.

Thanks for keeping us posted, RD. 🙂
 
Thanx RD!

Hope I can to 100k before then!!!

"and classic will be turned off for good." What a sad day that will be! 🙁
 
That's a laugh - waiting on hardware to solve what is basically a software problem. :roll:

The simple solution is just to purge the database of all user accounts with ZERO workunits completed!! That should more than clear away about 40% of the records, thus freeing up resources for the rest of us that actually have done something for the project. :|
 
Most database-traffic in BOINC is to the wu/result-database, and not the user-database...


BTW, their current BOINC-database is running off some old scsi-disks using software-raid.
 
the seti staff needs to quit screwing around and just head to fry's and get what they need. with all the hardware outages they have they need to develop some kind of redundancy....
 
fry's is a retail chain based in california that should be pretty close to the seti folks and has some good deals on hardware 🙂
 
Unforgiven, still being 😕 since for me your suggestion doesn't make much sence based on the 1st post in this thread...

Also, a quick look on Fry's Outpost-online-store seems to indicate they doesn't sell any system powerful enough to be new database-server, since the only dual-Opteron have only 2 SATA and 32bit PCI-slots, this AFAIK means either too small disk-capasity if uses 10k-SATA-disks or crappy performance...
 
Not to mention SETI relies on donations.

Thanks for info RD 🙂 ,looks like S@H1 will be killed off maybe in thr 1Q 05 or 2Q
 
Hey congrats on hitting 100k😀 ,nice going ,I'm a l-o-n-g way off from 100k & have got no chance of hitting that ,I guess I might hit 50k if I'm lucky
 
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