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Related: About this forumLooks like SETI@Home is going into hibernation mode.
On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation.
We're doing this for two reasons:
1) Scientifically, we're at the point of diminishing returns; basically, we've analyzed all the data we need for now.
2) It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper.
However, SETI@home is not disappearing. The web site and the message boards will continue to operate. We hope that other UC Berkeley astronomers will find uses for the huge computing capabilities of SETI@home for SETI or related areas like cosmology and pulsar research. If this happens, SETI@home will start distributing work again. We'll keep you posted about this.
If you're currently running SETI@home on your computer, we encourage you to attach to other BOINC-based projects as well. Or use Science United and sign up to do astronomy. You can stay attached to SETI@home, of course, but you won't get any jobs until we find new applications.
We're extremely grateful to all of our volunteers for supporting us in many ways during the past 20 years. Without you there would be no SETI@home. We're excited to finish up our original science project, and we look forward to what comes next.
We're doing this for two reasons:
1) Scientifically, we're at the point of diminishing returns; basically, we've analyzed all the data we need for now.
2) It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper.
However, SETI@home is not disappearing. The web site and the message boards will continue to operate. We hope that other UC Berkeley astronomers will find uses for the huge computing capabilities of SETI@home for SETI or related areas like cosmology and pulsar research. If this happens, SETI@home will start distributing work again. We'll keep you posted about this.
If you're currently running SETI@home on your computer, we encourage you to attach to other BOINC-based projects as well. Or use Science United and sign up to do astronomy. You can stay attached to SETI@home, of course, but you won't get any jobs until we find new applications.
We're extremely grateful to all of our volunteers for supporting us in many ways during the past 20 years. Without you there would be no SETI@home. We're excited to finish up our original science project, and we look forward to what comes next.
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267
I've been part of this since May 1999. Damn.
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krispos42
Mar 2020
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SeattleVet
(5,478 posts)1. I've been a part of this for many years...
Each of my last 3 Mac systems crunched numbers for them throughout their useful lives...up to 10 years, in some instances.
I got in early and completed a huge number of work units through the years.
Submariner
(12,506 posts)2. I'm really going to miss this
Feb 2001 here = 19 years of astronomy college down the drain. and not one damn ET after all that CPU time.
HAB911
(8,911 posts)3. What a shame
SETI@home member since 8 Sep 1999
Total credit 39,990,936
Recent average credit 14,313.81
SETI@home classic workunits 6,450
SETI@home classic CPU time 75,421 hours
also member of the DU group (Astroman)
any discussion of what project to switch to?
SETI@home member since 17 May 1999
Total credit 10,335,036
Recent average credit 10,276.92
SETI@home classic workunits 5,727
SETI@home classic CPU time 77,401 hours
I've still got a pile of workunits to work through. I'll figure something out, I guess.