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cunokyle · January 22nd, 2003, 01:19 AM

SETI@home completes the switch to BOINC
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SETI@home has completed its transition to BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure
for Network Computing). BOINC, developed at U.C. Berkeley, is a framework for
volunteer computing projects like SETI@home.

Switching your computer to the new "SETI@home/BOINC" is easy. Visit
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu for instructions. We'll be shutting down the
"SETI@home Classic" project on December 15. The workunit totals of users and
teams will be frozen at that point, and the final totals will be available on
the web.

Scientists at other universities are using BOINC to create volunteer computing
projects in areas like molecular biology, high-energy physics, and climate
change study. See http://boinc.berkeley.edu for more information. BOINC lets
you donate computer time to multiple causes, divided up however you want. For
example, your PC could spend 40% of its time searching for extraterrestrial
life (SETI@home), 30% studying climate change (http://climateprediction.net),
and 30% studying protein folding, design and docking (Rosetta@home:
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/).

You can run SETI@home 100% of the time if you want. But we strongly encourage
you to participate in other projects. Doing so ensures that when SETI@home is
down or has no work, your computer stays busy helping other researchers.

Support SETI@home
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SETI@home is increasingly reliant on individual donations. Without the support
of individuals like you the project will not be able to continue. We urge all
SETI@home participants to make a yearly donation to keep the project going:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php

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Thanks again for your participation in SETI@home.

The SETI@home Team
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

cunokyle · January 24th, 2003, 08:47 PM

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surreal · January 24th, 2003, 11:46 PM

A bump is perfectly acceptable!

(as soon as 24 hours, you don't have to wait 2 days

)

daveleau · January 25th, 2003, 04:35 AM

Hmmm

iNeb · January 25th, 2003, 04:37 AM

Why isn't this team on the 'team' page?

I plan on doing FAD and maybe seti when i build my new pc. Will they both work at the same time or should i just use one?

I say, if i have my PC idle, why waste the power when i can crunch some figures and help others out.

jokostel · January 25th, 2003, 06:02 AM

whoo hoo!! ##43 baby! yeah!

jokostel

cunokyle · January 25th, 2003, 03:12 PM

I'm sure you could do both. You just wouldn't get the same results by using one or the other. No big deal I suppose unless you want crunch more than anyone else!

Oh...I just finished #36! Now ranked 98th in our team!

edit: jokostel, according to the site, I should overtake you in 228 days!

It will take me 19000 days to overtake Mike!!

Nighthawk · January 25th, 2003, 03:16 PM

I'm not sure how two DC clients will work together. They usually use the lowest priority, but I'm not sure whether one is lower than the other.

This team really should be on the teams page, with a link to that Seti@Work page. I'd been unable to find that page.

cunokyle · January 25th, 2003, 03:19 PM

I have already talked to daveleau about the team pages. He let me know that they are workibg on getting it there.

cunokyle · January 29th, 2003, 10:43 PM

Well, I am now sitting in 91st place! We still need many more active team members though!