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SETI@home: Project News Weekly Outage
Posted 7 days agoEvery Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we have a 3-4 hour outage for database maintenance. The upload/download servers and some web pages are offline during this time. Due to server upgrades, the outage this week will start earlier (and end later) than usual. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News Sep 24, 2008
Posted 20 days agoBy the way... SETI@home just received its billionth result using BOINC - thanks to everybody who donated their computing power to help us reach this incredible milestone! [Link]
SETI@home: Project News Sep 16, 2008
Posted 5 weeks agoThe Planetary Society presents a radio interview with Dan Werthimer: "Astropulse: A New Way for E.T. to Phone Home" [Link]
SETI@home: Project News Aug 25, 2008
Posted 6 weeks agoNew article from The Planetary Society: "Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T." [Link]
SETI@home: Project News Aug 25, 2008
Posted 6 weeks agoThe Foundation for Computational Learning and Science is performing a survey of BOINC users. The survey asks BOINC client users about their demographic data, level of education, income, project participation, level of interest, suggestions for improvement, and technical data related to their computers running BOINC. If you would like to participate the survey is here. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News Aug 18, 2008
Posted 7 weeks agoApparently people weren't satisfied with a 3 day challenge, so Blurf started a new 5 Day SETI Donation Challenge. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News Aug 17, 2008
Posted 7 weeks agoThank you to all who gave for Blurf's 3 Day Seti Donation Challenge! The final amounts are: $5977.65 Donated and $6500 Pledged. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News Aug 15, 2008
Posted 8 weeks agoSome of our volunteers have started a 3 Day Donation Challenge. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News Aug 11, 2008
Posted 9 weeks agoThe upload server has been fixed. Once the system clears the backlog of results waiting to be uploaded, validated, and assimilated, disk space will clear up and this will allow new work to be generated. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News July 25, 2008
Posted 11 weeks agoWe've started creating work for SETI@home's new Astropulse application. At first we will just create a small amount, but we expect to enter full production next week. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News July 22, 2008
Posted 11 weeks agoThere is an article at Wikinews about the budget cuts that threaten the Arecibo telescope. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News July 22, 2008
Posted 12 weeks agoApple/Mac computers have been unable to get new workunits since yesterday - we're working on this bug. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News July 11, 2008
Posted 13 weeks agoWe have been struggling with database problems for the past few days, though we made some progress today. Various services may still be up and down throughout the weekend, but we may be beyond the worst of it. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News July 3, 2008
Posted 3 months agoThe future of Arecibo Observatory (where SETI@home collects its data) is threatened. If you are a U.S. citizen, please write your representatives to support the Senate bill and House resolution to continue Arecibo's funding. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News June 25, 2008
Posted 4 months agoWe swapped servers around this morning (in preparation of future upgrades) - you may be experiencing temporarily difficulty connecting to our data servers. Stopping/restarting your BOINC client may help. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News June 3, 2008
Posted 5 months agoWe are in the process of recovering from a minor science database issue. Due to the general heavy load on our systems you might find it hard to upload/download work for the next day or so. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News May 6, 2008
Posted 5 months agoSETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela speaks about the probablility of finding intelligent life on earthlike planets as one of the guests interviewed by Seth Shostak on this week edition of 'Are We Alone', the SETI Institute's Weekly radio magazine. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News May 1, 2008
Posted 6 months agoCongratulations to team SETI.USA. Their total BOINC credits have exceeded 1 billion cobblestones! [Link]
SETI@home: Project News April 28, 2008
Posted 6 months agoThe Near Time Persistency Checker (software we are developing to get up-to-date analysis of SETI@home results) has enjoyed recent progress. There is work still to be done, but the basic plumbing is in place - for example, on the Science Status page we added counts of signals SETI@home found where the Arecibo is currently pointing. [Link]
SETI@home: Project News April 7, 2008
Posted 6 months agoSome SETI@home volunteers put together a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke as a means of paying their final respects. We are sure he would have been touched by your sentiments. [Link]
