Seti/BOINC News

SirUlli

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November 17, 2004 - 20:00 UTC
The upload/download disk array has been well-behaved over the past week, so we have moved on to other hardware projects.

We are in the process of moving the alpha/beta test projects over to a new linux system. This will allow us to test our whole server suite on a platform other than solaris. As well, since the system is completely detached from everything else, if our public projects go down, the alpha/betas will still remain active (and vice versa).

As part of SETI@home classic ramping down, we are busy cleaning up the old on-line database (an intemediary database that doesn't exist in BOINC) as well as preparing a new master database that will contain classic and BOINC SETI@home data on a system with higher capacity/throughput. We are also planning for much more capacity/throughput on the main BOINC database (adding hardware raid, a db replica server, etc.).

We are still far from forcing old SETI@home users to move over to BOINC. When BOINC is poised to take on 500,000 more users, we'll throw the switch.

it is time to go to the right Side, so switch to BOINC

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php

Sir Ulli
 

Assimilator1

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No don't switch to BOINC yet!:Q (at least not en masse ;))

We don't want BBR to catch & pass us in S@H classic do we?
 

BlackMountainCow

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Sometimes I really wonder if I will ever see the final switch ... I'm 24 by now ... so that's about 45 more years for them .... might be a close one! ;)