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[mewbysea]

No dates are locked in, but here's the plan of attack as outlined by one of the SETI BOINC developers in response to the question "when is SETI Classic going away" on the SETI BOINC forums:  

:  Matt Lebofsky
Project developer

 Posted: 16 Feb 2005 16:20:40 UTC  

There are several ducks we need to get in a row, but basically any day now we'll embark on the first step, which is to tell all new users to sign up for BOINC instead of the classic SETI@home.

Some of the aforementioned ducks include another database server transfer, a whole server closet reorganization, some web site updating, last minute bug fixing (and an ensuing new client release), a mass e-mail to all the old SETI@home users, etc.
This can (and is) actually all happening in parallel.

The main objective (a new database server) has already been completed and it is handling 25% of the expected full load without breaking a sweat.

- Matt
BOINC/SETI@home

:  Matt Lebofsky
Project developer

 Posted: 16 Feb 2005 22:13:10 UTC  

Allow me to clarify:

When originally planning load on our system, we determined that we needed to at least be able to send out one million results a day. This was our goal. Right now we are generating and sending out 250,000 results a day without taxing our database server.

Will there be other unexpected bottlenecks? Probably. We'll find and fix those as new users ramp up.

What happens if user interest is so high that there is a greater demand than one million results a day? Maybe we'll generate more, but remember the real beauty of BOINC (and one of the reasons it was created) - you can crunch on other projects if any particular project is temporarily out of work.

- Matt
BOINC/SETI@home  

Crunch on folks--I'm guessing May at the earliest.

[Phoenix]

Thanks for that!  

I notice that tonight, at least, I was only able to upload a few WUs before not being able to get another connection...for hours now.  I checked their website, and didn't see any outage news or anything, and Phoenix was wondering if Today Was The Day....

So, your post was most welcome  

[Crazee]

Thanks for the news.  I am ready for it to come to an end

[Phoenix]

Still having massive trouble uploading WUs today....actually, I can't even get to their home page right now....

[Tommy]

They had a power outage.

On the seti1 page at the top they message has been changed saying that they have begun the change over.

"NOTICE: SETI@home is in the process of switching to new software called BOINC, which lets you run other projects (like Climateprediction.net and Einstein@home) on your computer as well as SETI@home. Please visit our new SETI@home/BOINC web site.
"

[Phoenix]

Uh-oh.  

Thanks  

[Crazee]

Hopefully it is time.  I am ready for the change.  I think I am going to focus on FaD next.

[Tommy]

I am sure the berkeley guys must be about ready to pull the plug on that one too.

[Phoenix]

Still can't get through...I did get to their site though and saw the updated notice about a circuit breaker thingy and server crashes and clean up and stuff, and still trying to catch up

[Tommy]

They had some db corruption when the power went down. Said the db server was in the lab and not the server closet so wasn't on the UPS. How dumb is that??!!

I could see it maybe if they were just setting it up and left it there for a few hours while configuring it or something but that's just stupid to leave it there for weeks unprotected.

[Phoenix]

Phoenix thinks they just had a Lesson Learned  

The lines are open again I notice, and WU uploading has us all happy again  

[Phoenix]

Thank goodness for SetiStash     Thanks to it, none of my machines were idle during the outage  

On a side note, Phoenix notices that TLG just dipped in to the 5 hr block of time-per-WU-crunched  

[Crazee]

FaD is Find a Drug.  It's not Berkeley associated you can find it at www.find-a-drug.co.uk

[Phoenix]

But the real question is, is Fad just a fad?  yuk yuk    

Phoenix already has multiple drugs of choice at hand, beer and cigs      

[Crazee]

FaD is looking for drugs for cancer, HIV, bioterrorism anitidotes, etc.

If you haven't tried it you should check it out