Seti@Home - The end of a Classic

[Smoke]

On December 15, 2005, after 6 years of operation, Classic SETI@home sent out its last work unit. The current SETI@home project is up and running. Please join us! The new software uses the BOINC distributed computing platform, which enables your computer to work on other scientific endeavors like SETI@home if you wish. We could all use your CPU cycles! It's easy to switch over - just follow the instructions on the new SETI@home web site. We hope to see everyone there!
At the time of shutdown, the stats for this project will be frozen but will continue to be available on the web. It may take several weeks to clean everything up and synchronize the classic stats with the current SETI@home project.

Thanks to all original SETI@home participants for their tremendous dedication to the project. You made SETI@home into something of lasting significance.

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Wow, I don't know exactly what to say. For me, this project was my introduction to Distributed Computing and TeAm AnandTech.

In a short-term perspective, the project failed to achieve its primary goal. We have not found definitive proof that intelligent life exists beyond our own planet. From a long-term perspective, the project has moved us along the scientific path to the day that we will find actual proof that intelligent life exists out there. This first baby step has been important. All of us should be proud that we participated in the search.

There is one thing for sure as our motto says, "We are proof that intelligent life exists in cyberspace!"

I would like to personally thank all of you for your contributions of time, money, and heart. I would like to especially thank all of the "leaders" that through the years have dedicated their all ... we would not be where we are today without you. :heart:

It has been an honor and a privilege to share this experience with you.

Hail to the TeAm! :wine:

 

[amdxborg]

What Greg said!

SETI was also my intro into the world of DC and more importandly for me, to this one in a million TeAm. I came to the forums when I heard SETI was ending two or three years ago and I was chasing 1k.. with the support and engouragement of these wonderful TeAmMates I've done more than 360k wu.

So I would like to thank SETI for bringing me here and giving me another home with the best family anyone could ask for. All the late night assimilations and hours of battling to get everything running smooth was truely worth it in the end.

Thanx to all my TeAmMates for the super great and bad SETI times, they will stay with me forevar!

borg

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Originally posted by: Smoke
On December 15, 2005, after 6 years of operation, this project will shut down. But SETI@home is not going away. We're alive and well and running on the BOINC distributed computing platform. It's easy to switch over - just follow the instructions on the new SETI@home web site. We hope to see everyone there!
At the time of shutdown, the stats for this project will be frozen but will continue to be available on the web.

Thanks to all original SETI@home participants for their tremendous dedication to the project. You made SETI@home into something of lasting significance.

Wow, I don't know exactly what to say. For me, this project was my introduction to Distributed Computing and TeAm AnandTech.

In a short-term perspective, the project failed to achieve its primary goal. We have not found definitive proof that intelligent life exists beyond our own planet. From a long-term perspective, the project has moved us along the scientific path to the day that we will find actual proof that intelligent life exists out there. This first baby step has been important. All of us should be proud that we participated in the search.

There is one thing for sure as our motto says, "We are proof that intelligent life exists in cyberspace!"

I would like to personally thank all of you for your contributions of time, money, and heart. I would like to especially thank all of the "leaders" that through the years have dedicated their all ... we would not be where we are today without you. :heart:

It has been an honor and a privilege to share this experience with you.

Hail to the TeAm! :wine:

I couldn't have said it better. Even though I've only been crunching with all of you for just under a year, it has been a blast! I don't know what I'm going to do without a "Daily Team Stats" and "Race Stats and Milestones" thread to check out every morning

One thing is certain though. The experience has been not only fun, but uplifting as well. It has not only made DC fun, and something that I now feel compelled to continue doing , but it's also demonstrated how people from all over the world, with vastly different backgrounds, vastly different ages, and vastly different political philosphies can come together and work as a true TEAM, in every sense of the word. Even when TeAm-mates experienced personal setbacks or difficulties, whether it was a natural disaster, surgery, a death in the family, or other troubles, we all came together for one another with prayers, warm thoughts, words of encouragement, or personal insight.

As we all move onto different projects, I'd like to wish everyone the best of luck. There's a lot of horsepower that is about to be largely distributed to other TeAm projects, giving each of them not just a temporary boost ala TAS, but some permanent crunching power. I look forward to moving on, but will always remember one thing:

It started with SETI

 

[Pokey]

Originally posted by: Smoke

Wow, I don't know exactly what to say. For me, this project was my introduction to Distributed Computing and TeAm AnandTech.

It has been an honor and a privilege to share this experience with you.

Hail to the TeAm! :wine:

Hear Hear.............:wine:

Well said Smoke. This is a great group and I for one am better for knowing you all. (Thank you Seti Classic) Glad I found ya......................... :wine:

 

[dmcowen674]

Thank you Greg, Dan, Tom, JW Middleton, Anand, Mods, everyone at TeAm Anandtech as well as everyone around the world, my family and my ex-wife Donna.

You all literally saved my life and I will be eternally grateful. :heart:

Congratulations to all at SETI@home especially Director Dr David Anderson for a job well done. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

David McOwen

 

[OhioDude]

'Tis a bittersweet day for me.

I remember receiving a letter from the Planetary Society in the summer of 1998. It was a letter of invitation to a lecture that was to be held in December, 1998 at Ohio State University given by, among others, Dr. David P. Anderson. They were going announce the launch of a beta project for a new type of program that would allow ME to help in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence by using my own PC. Being a software developer by trade and having more than just a passing interest in astronomy and physics, this was a natural for me.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it to Columbus, Ohio to hear Dr. Anderson speak, nor did I participate in the beta portion of the project, but I started crunching on May 16th, 1999 with a single 133 MHz Pentium. (Oooooooo) My interest peaked and waned over the next two years. I had amassed about 5,200 workunits as a "free agent" and I began looking for a team to join in April, 2001. I had used the AnandTech site on numerous occasions as a reference and saw that they had a Seti team. I decided that this is where I would hang my Seti hat.

Thinking back again to 1998, the Seti team was expecting perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 participants in the project. :Q Little did they know then that they would give life to the largest distributed computing project in the history of mankind, and spawn new technologies that would allow many other large-scale "problems" to be tackled with the power of people's own personal computers. Without Seti Classic, there may have been Folding@Home, Predictor@Home, Find-A-Drug, etc., etc. But I'd be willing to bet that they wouldn't have shown up nearly as quickly, nor would they have been as good as they are had SETI@Home not "plowed the road."

Goodbye, S@H.

 

[Dalephi]

It has been a great run. I really enjoyed OhioDude's and HB's daily posts as well as the races. This has been a good project made great by all the awesome TeAmmates. Congratulations goes out to all the TeAm participants of SETI@Home Classic.

Job well done.

Dale

 

[RaySun2Be]

Very well said Smoke, and all!

I ran across the Anandtech site when I was looking to build my 1st PC, which at the time, turned out to be an ABIT BH6 MB and a Celeron 300A@450, as that combo was the hot thing at the time. I enjoyed Anand's posts, and after awhile, checked out the forums, mostly Off Topic. One day, I popped into the Distributed Computing Forum, and found an entirely different place. People were friendly, supportive, and tripped over themselves being helpful. Newbies were welcomed, and their questions answered, even if it was the 1000 time that question had been asked.

I decided to try my hat at RC5, and soon this became an extended family. From that project, I eventually moved over to SETI. I've had times when I was producing 70+ WUs a day, and times when I could only produce 3 a day.

Through it all, one thing has remained constant, no matter what project(s), the great and awesome teammates here at Team Anandtech!

I love you guys!

:beer::thumbsup:

 

[Eltano1]

You guys made me choke, I'm in my lunch (at my office) reading these beatiful messages and I have to stop and wipe out my tears (I'm not joking).

ANYWAYS, I will like to thanks to everyone of you, you made me feel part of a family even though I stopped crunching for awhile (I almost got fire for using my brand new office's PC without permission) but that is another story.

I will be joining the BOINC group as soon I get home tonite, hoping to send the last WU for the TABOO team member that we are pushing to reach the 10k.

Guys and girls lets cheers for a new beggining :beer::beer:

Gus aka Eltano

 

[Wolfsraider]

It has been a lot of fun. You guys & gals make this the best forum on the web. I am glad I found my way here. I am very happy to call all of you friends. As one door closes another opens, just don't expect the view to remain the same. Seti@Home is a very unique project, supported by so many, crunched by nearly all. You will be missed

Mike

 

[BadThad]

My intro to DC as well! SETI Classic will be missed! gg

 

[CyGoR]

Although I stopped crunching S@H for a while, for me this also was the first DC project which started the 'addiction'..
First used it as a bechmark/ stability tester, but got hooked on the pretty graphics of the screensaver..
Man, was I happy when I finished my 5th thousand WU
It took me almost 5 years of crunching and over 6 years of CPU time on only a few pc's..

I had my ups and downs with the TeAm (a rough time, wasn't it Greg?) but overall, I loved every day of it!

Thank you to all on the Seti TeAm for a lot of great, great years working together!!!
A special thanks to everyone who supplied us with some very nice stats (sites) HB, Soni, Smoke, Wizz and everyone I forgot! :beer:

Good luck and happy crunching for all who continue with the search using BOINC.

 

[prontospyder]

thanks for the great times everyone!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: prontospyder
thanks for the great times everyone!

You sound like you're leaving?

 

[xjamesx]

I will truely cherish the days and nights I had my little farm crunching out WUs and keeping me awake

At least we beat those darn BBR people though!! :beer::beer:

 

[MoFunk]

Though I will continue to crunch for the TeAm.... now on F@H... nothing will ever compare to the seti classic days! We had the best MTR's (nothing like a little sandbaggin), and it was always a blast battling with BBR! T-A-S will always be tops in my book! Thank you guys!

 

[Assimilator1]

S@H was my 1st DC project too ,and after crunching it for 6yrs it's gonna seem wierd not doing it every again! ,of course there's S@H2 which I'll be switching my main rig over to at a latter date ,in the meantime I'll have remote rigs on it

Btw is it just me or did they pull the plug over 2hrs ago well before midnight?

Thanks for all the great times guys in S@H & may they continue

Inccidently in the time I've been here I've seen TA SETI go from a small team of less than a hundred with just a handful of postings a day to whopping great team going to No5 in the world & dozens of threads each day about SETI related stuff

I wonder if we'll ever have such a big team ever again with all the different DC projects around now?........

 

[networkman]

The Seti@Home project was my introduction both to Distributed Computing and to Team Anandtech. TA members were the ones that provided assistance and guidance to first getting the client(s) running, and were the ones both challenging and encouraging me as time went on. For that - I'll be forever grateful.

Through TA(and DC), I've had the opportunity to make a number of friends I'd've never met otherwise. Some of you I've met in person - others I will eventually 'cuz I'll look you up when I'm on vacation and in the area - yes, even to some of you overseas! :Q

Thank you all!

 

[prontospyder]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: prontospyder
thanks for the great times everyone!

You sound like you're leaving?

trying another project - but still crunching for the TeAm.

 

[Coolkid]

Wow, we all thought this day would never come...
I have to say that I've had heaps of fun with the TeAm, from the ever lasting race against BBR, MTR's, and just the great community here
I'll definitely be staying on, I havent yet chosen a project, and I will probably let my machines rest for a few days.

Thanks for the fun guys, and I'll be back soon

 

[Wiz]

It's been a great run.
Like others here I joined when TeAm ANandtech Seti was a much smaller group.
I came seeking like minded TeAm mates, and wow did I ever find what I was looking for.
I've greatly appreciated all of you over the years, and of course I'm not going anywhere - but the project ending does give rise to, and occasion for... change.

I think the main change here is going to be that while we are mostly all going to still be here, we will not all be crunching the same projects.

That's OK.

As long as we all call this place home, we all know where we can come when we just want to spend some time "where everybody knows your name".

As for me, I'm going to keep sending in seti classic WU's as long as they keep counting them.
Which I assume isn't going to be much longer now.

 

[Doc Brown]

YGPM

 

[Doc Brown]

 

[Crazee]

This is indeed a bittersweet time I will miss this project in many ways, but I am ready to move on. I will always remember many things about it fondly, but most of all I will remember it for bringing me to my DC family - the TeAm

I couldn't ask for a greater group of people to associate with The way this team sticks together is amazing. It is a big team with a small team feel

I also want to thank the fine folks at BBR They drove us to heights we could not have achieved without them I posted a thank you at their site and I encourage any member who feels the same to let them know here

 

[Sukhoi]

It was a good ride guys!

Somehow I managed to just beat the 15,000 WU barrier just before the project ended! Hard to believe I ran SETI for a couple of days over 6 years, and am now in 18,034th place overall. I never had much of a fleet either.