Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 28.09.2006.

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Technical News:
September 28, 2006 - 21:30 UTC
The new drive enclosure (to read drives full of data from Arecibo) didn't work. Long story, but the bottom line is we aren't exactly sure why and we're tired of screwing around with what will be the new master science database server. So we're changing plans a bit. Basically we'll put the enclosure on some other server - we just aren't exactly sure which one yet (need to first determine bandwidth requirements, PCI card support, etc.). We'll get the data on-line soon somehow, and then splitting it into workunits will follow.

What this all means is that we are no longer waiting on anything to do the final step of the science database migration. And what that means is a semi-outage (during which splitters and assimilators will be turned off) of a day or so as we move all the remaining data to the new server. Then a complete (but shorter) outage to point everything over to the new database and make sure it is behaving properly. This may happen during our usual Tuesday outage next week. We'll post something on the front page as the big event approaches.

It should be stated that about a month ago we finally got the SETHI project up and running again. At least some science is getting done with the data we are collecting at Arecibo - one of the most detailed maps of hydrogen in the local interstellar medium. But what about interesting SETI candidates for reobservation? What happened to those?

Well, work on the next phase of candidate generation has been blocked (for a very long time) behind other big tasks (moving the whole project over to BOINC, getting a new data recorder developed, installed, tested, and put into production, migrating data and bringing the new science database server online, putting out countless figurative fires...). Once the new database is in play we still have to do significant analysis and data correction before we can to work at finding E.T. hiding within a terabyte of spikes, gaussians, pulses, and triplets.



#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______152.308.892______272.190______240.775______impossible______SETI.Germany
02_______86.909.088______437.052______395.664______impossible______SETI.USA
03_______84.512.318_______32.930_______33.226______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______60.101.249_______88.972_______87.389______impossible______Czech National Team
05_______56.853.086______100.724_______81.144______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
06_______52.420.714______105.053_______99.409______impossible______BOINC Synergy
07_______51.546.034_______45.480_______45.107______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______44.489.254________9.540_________-221____201.309 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
09_______34.640.919_______-7.772______-12.201______2.839 days______BOINC.Italy
10_______22.435.553_______-1.753_______-2.937______7.639 days______Overclockers.com
11_______21.298.042_______66.801_______56.199______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
12_______15.747.023_______44.801_______29.872______impossible______Team 2ch
13_______13.809.045_______69.229_______51.982______impossible______Team Art Bell
14_______12.074.542_______42.875_______30.473______impossible______The Planetary Society
15________9.973.994_______20.399_______15.964______impossible______Ars Technica
16________6.147.304______-24.492______-25.447________242 days______Universe Examiners
17__________228.448_______-1.639_______-8.902_________26 days______Phoenix Rising
18_______33.673.630_______64.905_______66.308______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_________-574.365______-44.433______-46.242______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
20_______-4.723.044______-21.926______-28.346______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
21_______-4.836.979______-28.328______-33.246______impossible______2CPU.com
22_______-5.279.488_______69.253_______38.487________137 days______Team MacNN
23_______-7.095.031_______-7.364______-12.953______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
24_______-7.179.362______-43.852______-43.943______impossible______Picard
25_______-8.164.914________4.473_______-4.761______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
26_______-9.760.926______-38.547______-41.063______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
27_______-9.945.202________8.329________4.570______2.176 days______SETI@Taiwan
28_______-9.960.270______-11.006______-12.777______impossible______Canada
29______-10.168.553______-28.424______-32.225______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
30______-10.438.723______-25.570______-33.480______impossible______Portugal@Home
31______-11.420.962_______-2.000______-12.676______impossible______SETI@China
32______-12.269.819______-16.758______-21.979______impossible______Team NIPPON
33______-13.254.019______-26.850______-30.430______impossible______Dutch Power Cows
34______-13.328.105______-16.450______-20.842______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
35______-14.150.036______-35.073______-39.330______impossible______Team EDGE
36______-15.150.071_______-3.376______-10.760______impossible______Team MacAddict
37______-16.548.037______-20.993______-28.636______impossible______Hungary
38______-17.038.384______-25.805______-29.854______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
39______-17.602.908______-29.817______-36.061______impossible______HispaSeti&BOINC
40______-17.850.461______-45.746______-46.272______impossible______The Final Front Ear
41______-18.030.696______-48.757______-51.903______impossible______US-Distributed
42______-18.087.536______-27.922______-31.877______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
43______-18.848.317______-32.603______-40.613______impossible______Lookers
44______-19.054.699______-30.578______-31.730______impossible______U.S.Air Force
45______-19.064.083______-31.797______-35.870______impossible______World Wide S.E.T.I.
46______-19.153.115______-33.630______-37.073______impossible______UK BOINC Team
47______-19.281.643______-42.867______-44.089______impossible______forum.hwsw.hu
48______-19.324.200______-37.049______-37.174______impossible______Overclockers Australia
49______-19.476.304______-35.780______-41.654______impossible______SETI.hr
50______-19.584.922______-35.382______-37.930______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
99______-26.906.784_______67.807_______58.172________463 days______Team Starfire World BOINC

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