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SETI@Home technical news...

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Rattledagger

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October 10, 2005 - 23:30 UTC
Last week we finished the first phase of the science "migration." What this means is that all of the scientific results from SETI@home classic have been migrated over to the BOINC science database. There is a bit of cleanup work to be done, but the next big phase is merging these data with BOINC data. We will soon be able to shut down the classic master science database, which is currently running on the same server as the BOINC scheduler.
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Thanks, Rattledagger, for the info. Looks like a big job - joining the databases, cleaning up etc.
Does the plan - to shut down seti-classic in November still hold? :Q
 
Originally posted by: petrusbroder
Thanks, Rattledagger, for the info. Looks like a big job - joining the databases, cleaning up etc.
Does the plan - to shut down seti-classic in November still hold? :Q
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Well, if Berkeley isn't going to just dump the backlog of unvalidated "classic"-results, there will in any case be some cleanup to do after "classic" has shut down, so shouldn't influence when "classic" is shut-down. It's rather, the longer "classic" keeps running, the longer the clean-up will take, and the longer before servers can be re-configured to other jobs.
Hmm, a quick look on the TeAm Enterprise setiqueue reveals "classic" is to-day only handing out wu from tapes already distributed by SETI@Home/BOINC over a month ago.
This means, the wu "classic" is currently handing-out has already been validated by SETI@Home/BOINC, so nothing would really be lost if Berkeley just dumps all "classic"-results as they're returned... :evil:


It's possible the SETI@Home/BOINC-servers can't handle the load of all "classic"-users, but since the only hardware not currently being used is tied-up by "classic" and needs to be cleaned-out after shutdown, there will be no improvement by waiting some more time before shutting down... Well, except if someone in the mean-time donate some new servers...


So, AFAIK the only they're waiting on is the release of v5.2.x...
 
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