Welcome to Curly Brackets' BOINC Page

Every Tuesday to Thursday, SETI@Home will be down until further notice. This is what they tell us, but what happens at SETI?

Starting next week our servers will be turned off for several days a week - initially, Tuesday through Thursday. This will allow us to devote more time to scientific development. In addition to gaining developer time, we will take advantage of public server outages to run the science servers at full bore, getting all of the database resources. So science production, as well as science development, will increase.

Matt Lebofsky, Project Administrator SETI@home

This is how SETI informs us at their Forum. A meagre communiqué. And a lot of comments (Have a look at them here ). At least, this is a planned outage, not a sudden one as they had in the past, and they are telling us in advance. But why three full days every week? They're not telling, but we can guess:

• They have a huge database and databases tend to go unstable after time, the bigger the more likely.
• They will have to get rid of old data that has been analyzed and is blogging up space.
• Updates are due, both on OS and on software.
• Things have to be tested thoroghly and step-by step.

Just a few thought, we don't know for sure what's going on, keep your fingers crossed. Another few thoughts on what's going on can be found on the forum here. And then, if SETI@Home is down, there's lots of other projects that have work for you to crunch, just look around.

Good luck, Matt

Update September 25, 2010

Reality got a little ahead of us on this one. We were days, a week tops, away from migrating
upload service from bruno to bambi. This will double our upload space and allow us to turn
off bruno.

We will now move this up and make it top priority come Monday. We need to reconfigure
the raid on bambi and then let the raid sync. At that point we can both turn the projects
on and start migrating the results from bruno to bambi. We hope that this will be early in
the week. We'll then leave the projects on through next weekend, ie no normal 3 day outage.

Jeff Cobb, Project administrator & Project developer

Update October 28, 2010

The machine that was running the main BOINC database has become too unreliable to use. The backup server does not have the capacity to run the project on its own.

The very good news is that we just ordered two new servers! One will be the new BOINC database server and the other will be the new back end science database server. Our capacity to both distribute and analyze our data will increase significantly with these new machines.

While we prepare for these new servers and get them going once they arrive, the project will be down. Although no new work will be distributed, all outstanding work will be uploaded and credited. This web site and the forums will remain up for most of the remodeling period.

28 Oct 2010 22:26:47 UTC · Kommentar
Funding for the new servers has come entirely from very generous donations from the SETI@Home community. 

Again, good luck!