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November 15, 2005 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.
June 21, 2005
We turned off the ability to create new SETI@home classic
accounts. All new users should download and use the BOINC version of SETI@home
instead.
May 8, 2005 Our
data server internet link is back up. It was offline for over 24 hours so
the data server may drop connections as it tries to catch up.
April 25, 2005 In memoriam:
Philip Morrison.
March 22, 2005 We're now fully back on-line. More
information about recent outages can be found in Technical news
(on the new SETI@home page).
March 21,
2005 Our Internet link through Cogent went down at around
midnight UTC on March 18/19. It is still being looked at by Cogent. In the
meantime, data service (upload/download) is unavailable. We do not yet
have a projected time to fix - it could be a couple of days.
March 12, 2005 Official SETI@home Certificate frames
are now available!
March 9, 2005
Star Trek is going off the air! Read here how Star Trek Helped Launch SETI@home.
March 9, 2005 Power
Outage Update: We are back up and running full time, and We have
enough battery backup in place to keep our servers running 24/7 until the
power problems are diagnosed and fixed.
February 28, 2005 Around 18:00 UTC we had another
unexpected lab-wide power outage. We are survey the damage and slowly
bringing up various systems one by one.
February 24, 2005 UPDATE (21:00 UTC): The
database/data servers are mostly back on line and catching up from the
long outage. Yesterday afternoon a breaker blew and power for the entire
lab went down. We came back on-line three hours later, but due to servers
shutting down ungracefully we had to check every table in every database.
This process took all evening and continued well into the next morning.
February 22, 2005 Check out
the new Certificate of
Computation (available for Classic as well as BOINC users).
February 7, 2005 Famed
biologist Ernst Mayr is dead at 100. Read his celebrated
debate with Carl Sagan on the prospects of SETI.
January 10, 2005 Because of nearby
building construction there was an extended power outage last night,
during which all of our machines were turned off. Everything is back up
now.
December 9, 2004
SETI@home director David Anderson is interviewed on Planetary Radio.
November 24, 2004 Read The
Planetary Society's update on IBM's
WCG project.
November 21, 2004
Roelof J. Engelbrecht, a long-time SETI@home supporter and
author of the SETI Spy
utility, passed away on Nov. 16. Honor him by crunching for the
BroadbandReports.com Honor
Guard account.
September 21, 2004
Listen to an interview with SETI@home's Dan Werthimer on The
Planetary Society's 'Planetary Radio.'
September 19, 2004 Early this morning campus got a call
from SANS that our web site (this page) appeared to be hijacked. At that
point campus (rightly so) blocked access to our site at the campus router.
As it turns out though, we were not hijacked at all. Our nightly front
page regen script had malfunctioned and produced a truncated page. This is
now fixed.
September 2, 2004
Reports of SETI@home Extraterrestrial Signal Highly Exaggerated: A
new article from the Planetary Society.
Climateprediction.net, another
BOINC-based project, is now open. We urge all SETI@home to consider
participating in Climateprediction.net. This will keep your computer busy
(and earning credit) even when SETI@home has no work available.
August 25, 2004 Two new
stories from the Planetary Society: Scientists from Different Fields Line Up to Join the BOINC
Family and SETI@home's New Look.
August 24, 2004 Here's a
recent interview with chief scientist Dan Werthimer at astroseti.org.
August 2, 2004 Check out
the new Planetary Society newsletter: Multi-Beam Receiver Promises New Vistas for SETI
Research.
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