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Predictor@Home - NewsThe P@H server will be offline several times between July 7th and July 14th. We are moving into our new office space. Project Status UpdateCurrently P@H is offline. We are in the process of establishing ourselves at the University of Michigan. Our group has just purchased a large computation cluster (1776 cores). We are in the process of interviewing candidates for the 20 open postdoctoral possitions in our group. It does not look like our currently staff will have the resources to run P@H.Periodically we will be creating workunits to test ideas. This will not be happening on a regular basis. For those of you who would like to stay attached please note that any test workunits will have a high probability of failure. I've created some test workunits. The tests will answer two questions. First, is the server correctly configured for operations at the University of Michigan. Second, How big a difference is there is results returned from different CPU's and does that difference warrent that Homogeneous Redundancy be turned on. We have made the transition to The University of Michigan. The server is still offline. We are still getting settled in our new location. I will try to have weekly status updates. The Brooks Research Group will be relocating to the University of Michigan. The current Predictor@Home site will remain open until December. After that there will be a down time while we transfer people and resources to Ann Arbor Michigan. We hope to be up again some time after January 1, 2008. There are a few targets were we did not get a good sample. I have created more results for those targets and queued up the jobs.. We are almost finished with our first set of targets. These targets are from the most recent CASP. The next step is to take a look at all the data and compare it to the CASP data. This will allow is to know where we are. Then we can make changes and see if the models improve. Looking at our current rate we should distribute the last targets from this set sometime this week. There will be some down time while we analyze all the structures you have computed for us. Thank You to every one who has helped us. Please check to see if your client is running a t0293 result. If it is at 0% done please reset your client. dTASSER-0.34 has been released. It contains a bug fix to address the issue that was brought to light with the t0293 series of workunits which on some clients would run until it hit the Max FLOPS. If you have been experiencing this issue please reset your client. If you have not had this issue you do not need to take any action. dTASSER-0.32 is being tested. It should be ready for release on Wednesday if all goes well. We have identified a problem that may be causing some clients to get stuck at 0% done. We have proposed a solution and are testing it now. If it checks out we will release a new version of dTASSER sometime early next week. Until then please monitor your clients. The following targets will be released over the next few weeks: Rv1567c Rv1616 Rv1861 Rv2433c Rv3069 Rv3773c t0285 t0286 t0300 t0302 t0303 t0307 t0312 t0314 t0317 t0322 t0324 t0327 t0330 t0332 t0337 t0343 t0344 t0347 t0350 t0352 t0361 t0362 t0364 t0367 t0369 t0373 t0383 t0385 t0290. They will be released 1000 at a time. The next target will be released when the current set in 80% finished. There was an error in the creation of the t0359 series of workunits. The estimated time to completion is way off. Please ignore it. It should take around ten hours. There is a bug somewhere that is causing some jobs to fail. If you notice that your client has been running a result for more than a few hours and has not progressed passed 0% please reset your client. There have been 5 cases of this reported to us. Please post a note in the forums is anyone else runs into this problem. There is a bug somewhere that is causing some jobs to fail. If you notice that your client has been running a result for more than a few hours and has not progressed passed 0% please reset your client. There have been 5 cases of this reported to us. Please post a note in the forums if anyone else runs into this problem. Several users have reported strange behavior associated with target t0293. If you are running a t0293 result please periodically check the progress. If it appears to be stuck at any one point for more than a few hours please tell us about it in the forums. New Targets have been released: t0288, t0306, t0309, t0311, t0335, t0340, t0349, t0353, t0359, t0363. The memory requirement is set at 756MB. The deadline is set at 28 days. New Targets have been released: t0293, t0297, t0323, t0329, t0365. The memory requirement is set at 756MB. The deadline is set at 28 days. We have new targets ready to send. Before we release any new targets we are going to wait for the outstanding old targets to finish. Then we will try to address any outstanding credit issues before proceeding. I suspect it will be Monday or Tuesday before the new workunits are sent out. We have updated the db_purge configuration so that results will remain in the database for 20 days instead of 10 days. This will make it easier to guage what progress has been made. The last 10 targets are working well. There are still issues with the previous sets. If they don't work themselves out we may have to cancel them and reissue the ones where we don't have enough samples. CORRECTION: The minimum amount of RAM for the new workunits was set to 756MB not 512MB. Ten new targets have been released: t0380, t0319, t0379, t0368, t0382, t0370, t0308, t0345, t0351, t0366 Homogeneous Redundancy has been turned off. Those of you running the 5.8.x clients with 512MB RAM available for use should have no problems getting work. Homogeneous Redundancy will be turned off this Friday. This should end the remaining problems with result validation. We have released a new target: t0342. Reminder: You need to have client version 5.8.0 or greater to run workunits. We are in the process of fine tuning the scheduler to try and resolve issues. The scheduler was not sending out work. We have restarted it and work is now flowing. Please remember to get work you need to upgrade your client to a 5.8.x version. The number of invalid results has dropped significantly over the last week, but there are still some. We are looking into the cause. Network problems took the Predictor servers offline for just over two hours. The should be back to normal. Three new targets have been released: t0354, t0331, t0346. The t0283 workunits are validating much better since we upgraded the scheduler and required the 5.8.x client. The folks at Berkeley were able to fix the 'HTTP internal server Error'. We have upgraded the code. You should be able to attach and get work again. Upgrade problems: There is a problem with the scheduler that is preventing people from creating new accounts, attaching, and getting work. We are working on it. The symptoms are 'HTTP internal Error'. The folks at Berkeley were able to fix the 'HTTP internal server Error'. We have upgraded the code. You should be able to attach and get work again. Upgrade problems: There is a problem with the scheduler that is preventing people from creating new accounts, attaching, and getting work. We are working on it. The symptoms are 'HTTP internal Error'. Upgrade problems: There is a problem with the scheduler that is preventing people from creating new accounts, attaching, and getting work. We are working on it. The symptoms are 'HTTP internal Error'. The current set of work runs on 500MB or more RAM. At or below 500MB we have had reports that the machines become unresponsive.We are requiring that you use a 5.8.x or newer client for new work. Please upgrade your clients! The t0283 workunits are almost done. We discovered some issues that were preventing good results from validating and have addressed them. There is a new workunit called t0377 that is ready for release. You will need a Boinc client newer than 5.8.0 to run these. Please upgrade your client to a version greater than 5.8.0.We've run into two issues with the new workunits. Some older clients are not returning the results compressed. When these results are paired with ones from newer clients which do compress the results do not validate. The second issue is with homogeneous redundancy and the granularity of host selection being too broad. This issue will be addressed in the server code soon. Please upgrade your client to a version greater than 5.8.We've run into two issues with the new workunits. Some older clients are not returning the results compressed. When these results are paired with ones from newer clients which do compress the results do not validate. The second issue is with homogeneous redundancy and the granularity of host selection being too broad. This issue will be addressed in the server code soon. dTASSER-0.31 has been released along with a new set of workunits. The Boinc server has also been upgraded. There were some problems with the upgrade, but we think they have all been fixed. Credits have been issued for the previous set of workunits. dTASSER-0.31 is almost ready for release. This release will address several validation problems and checkpoint issues. The updated version is not compatable with the previous version so we will need to release it after the current set of work has completed. We are also making changes to the server configuration to make results run efficiently. The avatar's have been fixed. You should be able to change your images now. NOTE: The scheduler will be offline while we do a database backup. Due to recent attacks on the Predictor@Home forums by a small group of malicious hackers we have enabled some restrictions in the forums. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause our volunteers. As so often is the case a few bad apples can spoil the lot and their behavior has forced us to enforce policies we would prefer not to. The accounts used by the attackers have been deleted. Despite these issues, which we will weather, we continue to value your efforts and the resources you volunteer toward the scientific objectives of the Predictor@Home project. Thank you. We are starting to get results back for the t0299 workunits. The workunits that have been returned and validated look good. We are excited to see what happens when the entire set is done. Currently we are testing the next set of work so we can correctly set the estimated FLOPS and estimated disk usage the first time around. If there are 5 or 10 users who would like to help test and setup new workunits that would really help. Contact us via email at boinc@scripps.edu to sign up. The server will be offline for a short while so we can do a database backup. A problem has been identified with the t0XX series of workunits. There is a default maximum amount of disk space built into each workunit. These workunits will use more than the default. If you are running a t0xx workunit you can keep it from failing by doing the following. 1. stop the boinc client2. Edit the client_state.xml file3. Change the line for the workunit that look like:rsc_disk_bound 100000000.000000 /rsc_disk_bound so that is looks like rsc_disk_bound 157286400.000000 /rsc_disk_bound4. Restart the boinc client. The deadline for the t0xx series of workunits has been extended from 1 week to 3 weeks. The deadline for the t0xx series of workunits has been extended from 1 week to 3 weeks. We've decreased the memory requirement to 768MB RAM. The estimated number of FLOPs for the new workunits was too short. It has been increased. The estimated number of FLOPs for the new workunits was too short. It has been increased. The pending and inconclusive credits have been issued for results during the Homogeneous Redundancy testing. 5 new sets of work have been created. Each set has 2,000 workunits which is approximately 6,000 results. Homogeneous Redundancy has been turned on. The memory requirement has been set back to 1GB RAM. Homogeneous Redundancy has been turned back on. The t0348_lng workunits are almost done. On Monday there will be 5 new sets of 2000 workunits. I will leave H/R on for the entire set. For now homogeneous redundancy has been turned off. We are looking into making the validator accept results from different CPU types. If you are having problems with t0348_lng workunits the first thing you should check is the version of dTASSER you are using. It should be version 0.30 or greater. The daily quota has been reduced because of the longer duration of the new workunits. t0348_lng workunits have been created. The new versions of dTASSER are available now. Work should be avail soon. The Linux version of dTASSER will only work on machines with 2.6 kernels. We hope to have version 0.31 available tomorrow which should run on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. New work should be ready this evening. The 0.3x version of dTASSER for the Intel and PowerPC Mac are ready. The new application has checkpointing. In tests the new work units took just over 6 hours on a new dual core machine to 18 hours on a single cpu hyperthreaded machine. The new and old applications do not mix. You need to make sure that you are running dtasser-0.30 before you start any new jobs or the work will not validate. If you still have any t0348 or t0377 jobs pl ease cancel them. New jobs will require 70Mb RAM for the first 80% and 770MB for the last 20%. We have seen an issue on Windows dual core where the client halts a job with 'Waiting for Memory' and that job never recovers. The same job on the same machine running Linux does not stop the job. If you have a dual core/ dual processor machine running Windows you may want to change your preferences so that you use at most 1 CPU. New work should be ready this evening. The 0.3x version of dTASSER for the Intel and PowerPC Mac are ready. The new application has checkpointing. In tests the new work units took just over 6 hours on a new dual core machine to 18 hours on a single cpu hyperthreaded machine. The new and old applications do not mix. You need to make sure that you are running dtasser-0.30 before you start any new jobs or the work will not validate. If you still have any t0348 or t0377 jobs please cancel them. New jobs will require 70Mb RAM for the first 80% and 770MB for the last 20%. We have seen an issue on Windows dual core where the client halts a job with 'Waiting for Memory' and that job never recovers. The same job on the same machine running Linux does not stop the job. If you have a dual core/ dual processor machine running Windows you may want to change your preferences so that you use at most 1 CPU. We are still working on linking the Mac versions of dTASSER-0.3x. After some discussion we think that releasing a new version for Linux and Windows will cause all the outstanding t0348 and t03477 results to fail vaildation becuase the output from the new version is slightly different than the old version. dTASSER 0.3x has a change in how the percent done is calculated. From 0 to 80% is TASSER and from 80 to 100% is sPICKER. The sPICKER is the clustering app that uses large amounts of memory. You should be able to tell which is running by the percent done. The web server seems to be back to normal. Most of the results returned for the t0348 and t0377 series have been validated. The 0.3x version of dTASSER for Mac's may be delayed because of problems linking the gfortran libraries static, but the Windows and Linux versions are set to be released on Monday. The web server seems to be back to normal. Most of the results returned for the t0348 and t0377 series have been validated. The 0.3x version of dTASSER for Mac's may be delayed because of problems linking the gfortran libraries static, but the Windows and Linux versions are set to be released on Monday. The web server issues have been traced to the file_upload_handler. There are on average about 600 files being written to the uploads directory concurrently. We expect it to clear up sometime today. dTASSER-0.3x will be the first version of dTASSER that we have used any optimization flags. In our testing we've observed that a 5:45 minute job now completes in 3:10 minutes with the exact same output. This should work well with the upcoming longer workunits. The web server has taken a serious beating over the last day due to the release of new dTASSER versions and the short job length. We are currently compiling and testing dTASSER-0.3x. This version will have checkpointing which will allow us to run longer more meaningful jobs. The current plan is to release dTASSER-0.3x on Monday, April 16. The web server has taken a serious beating over the last day due to the release of new dTASSER versions and the short job length. We are currently compiling and testing dTASSER-0.3x. This version will have checkpointing which will allow us to run longer more meaningful jobs. The current plan is to release dTASSER-0.3x on Monday, April 16. We have configure the Apache web server to use mod_file_cache for the application files to try to relieve some of the congestion downloading new dTASSER versions. This keeps the files in memory so no disk access is needed to download the application files. Windows version 0.22 has been released. The gfortran people were able to give us a patch that fixed an issue with the compiler and the mingw32 windows libraries. We have tested it on our windows system and it works! We are in contact with the Gfortran folks about our compiling issue. Until we are able to get it resolved we have downgraded the Windows version of dTASSER so we can send out work again. Linux clients should have version 0.20 and will have a lower memory footprint until sPICKER runs at the end of the job. Windows version 0.22 has been released. The gfortran people were able to give us a patch that fixed an issue with the compiler and the mingw32 windows libraries. We have tested it on our windows system and it works! We are in contact with the Gfortran folks about our compiling issue. Until we are able to get it resolved we have downgraded the Windows version of dTASSER so we can send out work again. Linux clients should have version 0.20 and will have a lower memory footprint until sPICKER runs at the end of the job. We are in contact with the Gfortran folks about our compiling issue. Until we are able to get it resolved we have downgraded the Windows version of dTASSER so we can send out work again. Linux clients should have version 0.20 and will have a lower memory footprint until sPICKER runs at the end of the job. We have not been able to resolve the issue with the Windows version of dTASSER. The same code compiled for Linux works. The issue has to do with reading in the input files and recognizing intergers and floating point number. As soon as we figure it out we will realease a new version. Seti@Home - NewsCheck out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer. < a href= " http://computespace.blogspot.com/2010/02/william-e-gordon-1918-2010.html " rel= " nofollow " > William E. Gordon < /a > , the designer of the Arecibo radio telescope, has passed away at the age of 92. William E. Gordon, the designer of the Arecibo radio telescope, has passed away at the age of 92. Message 966123 - Posted 27 Jan 2010 9:14:11 UTC - in response to Message 966099. First off, this is the wrong place for your question. You should create a "New thread" in one of the Questions and answers fora. Gundolf Jahn, thank you for taking the time to reply. Please understand that my life has turned around in unbelievably negative ways during the past two months and two years. I'm not up on the forums and it's difficult for me to begin reading "everything you ever wanted to know about Seti@home," so thank you for taking the time to tell me what to do. I appreciate it! With wings, Shari17" THERE ARE ALWAYS FLOWERS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE THEM." ----------Henri Matisse------------ ...and science needs the computing power provided by us all, isn't it? The project is always looking for users. We're onl y processing 2007 data now because it was too noisy to be processed then. Most of the current stuff has already been processed with MultiBeam. We're still waiting for the database to be fixed before they hand out new AstroPulse. I'd also welcome a preference setting where I can dema nd more packages on hold You can already control extra work through your preferences in your account. Go to your < a href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=global" rel="nofollow">Computing Preferences and under Network Usage, increase the number for "Maintain enough additional work for X days". I've noticed that today my amount of owing credits didn't got updated. That's because the Replica database is offline, so nothing in anyone's account will be updated until that is fixed.
@Bill, There has been a presidential election cycle in the mean time and the christian fundamentalist -- the bible is the literal word of god person -- is not in power any more. Nor does his political party control the House of Representatives -- the purse strings of the USA -- any more. @edjcox, As to this data moving, who gives a squat how fast it gets between Puerto Rico and California? When the dish collects we can't crunch as fast as it collects so it backs up. If it is going to back up sending it slow boat gets it crunched just a s fast as real time and it costs less. Of course it didn't help that the dish was offline for about a year for a major R&R project. Gianni Urso is interviewed by Bruno Moretti Turri on radio astronomy, SETI@home, and BOINC distributed computing (31 min., in Italian) Thanks Dave. But... Bruno Moretti Turri is interviewed by Gianni Urso on radio astronomy, SETI@home, and BOINC distributed computing now online the movie with nice BOINC SETI slideshow. 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G . Cocconi  Gianni Urso is interviewed by Bruno Moretti Turri on radio astronomy, SETI@home, and BOINC distributed computing (31 min., in Italian) Gianni Urso is interviewed by Bruno Moretti Turri on < a href= " http://setiitalia.altervista.org/intervistaRR.html " rel= " nofollow " > radio astronomy, SETI@home, and BOINC distributed computing < /a > (31 min., in Italian) We started sending out our annual year-end donation drive mass e-mail. The process could take days. If you didn't get one (possibly due to spam blocking), you can read the same letter on-line here. Thank you!!! We started sending out our annual year-end donation drive mass e-mail. The process could take days. If you didn't get one (possibly due to spam blocking), you can read the same letter on-line < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donor_letter.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . Thank you!!! We started sending out our annual year-end donation drive mass e-mail. The process could take days. If you didn't get one (possibly due to spam blocking), you can read the same letter on-line < a href= " http://donor_letter.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . Thank you!!! We started sending out our annual year-end donation drive mass e-mail. The process could take days. If you didn't get one (possibly due to spam blocking), you can read the same letter on-line here. Thank you!!! SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela has posted an FAQ and comments about the forced resignation at Higley Unified School District in Arizona SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela has posted an < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=56450 & sort=6 " rel= " nofollow " > FAQ and comments < /a > about the forced resignation at Higley Unified School District in Arizona SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela has posted an FAQ and comments about the forced resignation at Higley Unified School District in Arizona The connectivity problem noted yesterday turned out to be one of our switches and not the router. We swapped in a replacement switch today and connectivity was restored. The connectivity problem noted yesterday turned out to be one of our switches and not the router. We swapped in a replacement switch today and connectivity was restored. Our router, which connects all of our data servers to the Internet, is down. Until we resolve this, the project is unable to send out work or receive results. Our router, which connects all of our data servers to the Internet, is down. Until we resolve this, the project is unable to send out work or receive results. We just had a disk failure on our raw data storage device, which we're in the process of fixing, but still we'll probably run out of workunits to send out tonight. SETI@home is recognized as a landmark event in The History of the Internet. SETI@home is recognized as a landmark event in < a href= " http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/ " rel= " nofollow " > The History of the Internet < /a > . SETI@home is recognized as a landmark event in The History of the Internet. One of our database servers crashed again today. It should be recoverable, but the project will probably be down until tomorrow morning when everybody will be back at the lab and can sort out what happened. We have been in the process of transitioning parts of our data pipeline. You may be having trouble downloading workunits until this process is complete - hopefully later this week. We have been in the process of transitioning parts of our data pipeline. You may be having trouble downloading workunits until this process is complete - hopefully later this week. Welcome to SETI.IR, a new web site for SETI@home participants in Iran and other Persian-speaking countries. Welcome to < a href= " http://www.seti.ir/ " rel= " nofollow " > SETI.IR < /a > , a new web site for SETI@home participants in Iran and other Persian-speaking countries. Welcome to SETI.IR, a new web site for SETI@home participants in Iran and other Persian-speaking countries. The UC Berkeley Astronomy Department is holding a Telescope Building Workshop and Star Party on October 23 at 7pm in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy. If you would like to attend, details can be found here The UC Berkeley Astronomy Department is holding a Telescope Building Workshop and Star Party on October 23 at 7pm in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy. If you would like to attend, details can be found < a href= " http://astro.berkeley.edu/~scroft/iya/ " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > The UC Berkeley Astronomy Department is holding a Telescope Building Workshop and Star Party on October 23 at 7pm in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy. If you would like to attend, details can be found here SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela discusses life in the universe in Galactic Watercooler Podcast #190. This is one episode in an arc relating to the late Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela discusses life in the universe in < a href= " http://www.galacticwatercooler.com " rel= " nofollow " > Galactic Watercooler Podcast #190 < /a > . This is one episode in an arc relating to the late Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela discusses life in the universe in Galactic Watercooler Podcast #190. This is one episode in an arc relating to the late Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela discusses life in the universe the Galactic Watercooler Podcast #190. This is one episode in an arc relating to the late Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. An article in PCWorld, 12 Worthy Causes Seek Your Spare PC Cycles, describes BOINC and 12 projects that use it, including SETI@home. An article in PCWorld, < a href= " http://www.pcworld.com/article/171126/12_worthy_causes_seek_your_spare_pc_cycles.html " rel= " nofollow " > 12 Worthy Causes Seek Your Spare PC Cycles < /a > , describes BOINC and 12 projects that use it, including < a href= " http://www.pcworld.com/article/171126-11/12_worthy_causes_seek_your_spare_pc_cycles.html " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home < /a > . An article in PCWorld, 12 Worthy Causes Seek Your Spare PC Cycles, describes BOINC and 12 projects that use it, including SETI@home. The Space Sciences Lab at UC Berkeley (which is where SETI@home resides) recently celebrated its 50 anniversary. Facebook users: check out the BOINC Milestones app. Facebook users: check out the < a href= " http://apps.facebook.com/boinc_milestones/ " rel= " nofollow " > BOINC Milestones < /a > app. The Space Sciences Lab at UC Berkeley (which is where SETI@home resides) recently < a href= " http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Space_Sciences_Lab_Celebrates_50_Years_And_75_satellites_999.html " rel= " nofollow " > celebrated its 50 anniversary < /a > . Facebook users: check out the BOINC Milestones app. The Space Sciences Lab at UC Berkeley (which is where SETI@home resides) recently celebrated its 50 anniversary. Here's a fun slideshow/article in Network World about BOINC and various other BOINC projects. Here's a < a href= " http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/083109-volunteer.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2009-08-31 " rel= " nofollow " > fun slideshow/article in Network World < /a > about BOINC and various other BOINC projects. Here's a fun slideshow/article in Network World about BOINC and various other BOINC projects. We are proud to announce the very first publicly available output of the Near-Time Persistency Checker (a process which ranks the statistical interest of points on the sky). Please read the Frequency Asked Questions first. An article in The Star (New Zealand) tells how a 14-year-old arranged to run SETI@hom e on 90 computers at his school. An < a href= " http://www.thestar.co.nz/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive & Source=Page & Skin=TheStar & BaseHref=STR%2F2009%2F08%2F20 & ViewMode=HTML & PageLabel=11 & EntityId=Ar01100 & AppName=1 " rel= " nofollow " > article in The Star < /a > (New Zealand) tells how a 14-year-old arranged to run SETI@home on 90 computers at his school. We are proud to announce the very first publicly available output of the < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ntpckr.php " rel= " nofollow " > Near-Time Persistency Checker < /a > (a process which ranks the statistical interest of points on the sky). Please read the < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ntpckr_faq.php " rel= " nofollow " > Frequency Asked Questions < /a > first. An < a > article in The Star[/url] (New Zealand) tells how a 14-year-old arranged to run SETI@home on 90 computers at his school. An article in The Star (New Zealand) tells how a 14-year-old arranged to run SETI@home on 90 computers at his school. We are proud to announce the very first publicly available output of the Near-Time Persistency Checker (a process which ranks the statistical interest of points on the sky). Please read the Frequency Asked Questions first. The SETI@Netherlands team is hosting a 10th anniversary Gauntlet. If you think your machines have the power to compete, signups end September 18th. The SETI@Netherlands team is hosting a < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=54846 " rel= " nofollow " > 10th anniversary Gauntlet < /a > . If you think your machines have the power to compete, signups end September 18th. The SETI@Netherlands team is hosting a 10th anniversary Gauntlet. If you think your machines have the power to compete, signups end September 18th. We updated the master seti.berkeley.edu page, which contains information/links about all of U.C. Berkeley's SETI-related projects, as well as general weekly meeting minutes! We updated the master < a href= " http://seti.berkeley.edu/ " rel= " nofollow " > seti.berkeley.edu page < /a > , which contains information/links about all of U.C. Berkeley's SETI-related projects, as well as general weekly meeting minutes! We updated the master seti.berkeley.edu page, which contains information/links about all of U.C. Berkeley's SETI-related projects, as well as general weekly meeting minutes! In case anybody missed them (links were posted elsewhere on this site), here are videos of all the talks given during the SETI@home 10 Year Anniversary celebration in May. In case anybody missed them (links were posted elsewhere on this site), < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_10yr_anniversary.php " rel= " nofollow " > here are videos of all the talks < /a > given during the SETI@home 10 Year Anniversary celebration in May. In case anybody missed them (links were posted elsewhere on this site), here are videos of all the talks given during the SETI@home 10 Year Anniversary celebration in May. The web site of the Paddy's in Space team is newly renovated. The web site of the < a href= " http://www.paddysinspace.com/ " rel= " nofollow " > Paddy's in Space < /a > team is newly renovated. The web site of the Paddy's in Space team is newly renovated. The Institution of Engineering and Technology has posted an article about volunteer computing in astronomy. The < a href= " http://theiet.org/ " rel= " nofollow " > Institution of Engineering and Technology < /a > has posted an article about < a href= " http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/issues/0912/peoples-astronomy-0912.cfm " rel= " nofollow " > volunteer computing in astronomy < /a > . The Institution of Engineering and Technology has posted an article about volunteer computing in astronomy. We updated the SERENDIP web site, now containing information about our recent trip to Arecibo (to install the new instrument and do some testing). We updated the < a href= " http://seti.berkeley.edu/serendip " rel= " nofollow " > SERENDIP web site < /a > , now containing information about our recent trip to Arecibo (to install the new instrument and do some testing). We updated the SERENDIP web site, now containing information about our recent trip to Arecibo (to install the new instrument and do some testing). Here's a video of Dan Werthimer giving a short talk about SETI@home at the Maker Faire Bay Area (on May 30th, 2009). Warning: must sit through ad before viewing. Here's a < a href= " http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/Dan_Werthimer_Presents_SETIhome#SETIhome_Discover_ET_Using_Your_Personal_Computer " rel= " nofollow " > video of Dan Werthimer < /a > giving a short talk about SETI@home at the Maker Faire Bay Area (on May 30th, 2009). Warning: must sit through ad before viewing. Here's a video of Dan Werthimer giving a short talk about SETI@home at the Maker Faire Bay Area (on May 30th, 2009). Warning: must sit through ad before viewing. A new update from the Planetary Society: SERENDIP Takes a Great Leap Forward. Dan Werthimer was on Science Friday discussing SETI@home's 10 year anniversary. Here is a recording of the interview. Dan Werthimer was on < a href= " http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200905223 " rel= " nofollow " > Science Friday < /a > discussing SETI@home's 10 year anniversary. < a href= " http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200905223 " rel= " nofollow " > Here is a recording < /a > of the interview. A new update from the < a href= " http://www.planetary.org " rel= " nofollow " > Planetary Society < /a > : < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20090526.html " rel= " nofollow " > SERENDIP Takes a Great Leap Forward < /a > . A new update from the Planetary Society: SERENDIP Takes a Great Leap Forward. Dan Werthimer was on Science Friday discussing SETI@home's 10 year anniversary. Here is a recording of the interview. You can tune in to video from tomorrow's SETI@home Anniversary seminar live on ustream.tv starting at 10am pacific time (1700 UTC). If you can't watch it live, don't worry. We will be posting the vid eo for download later. You can tune in to video from tomorrow's SETI@home Anniversary seminar live on < a href= " http://www.ustream.tv/channel/SETI-Home-10th-Anniversary-Celebration " rel= " nofollow " > ustream.tv < /a > starting at 10am pacific time (1700 UTC). If you can't watch it live, don't worry. We will be posting the video for download later. You can tune in to video from tomorrow's SETI@home Anniversary seminar live on ustream.tv starting at 10am pacific time (1700 UTC). If you can't watch it live, don't worry. We will be posting the video for download later.  SETI@home 10th Anniversary T-shirts are now available for order. See this thread for details. Thanks to Uli for handling the T-shirt manufacturing and shipping, and thanks to Misfit for the winning design. < img src= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/images/tshirt.png " > SETI@home 10th Anniversary T-shirts are now available for order. See < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=54070 " rel= " nofollow " > this thread < /a > for details. Thanks to Uli for handling the T-shirt manufacturing and shipping, and thanks to Misfit for the winning design. [Image link] SETI@home 10th Anniversary T-shirts are now available for order. See this thread for details. Thanks to Uli for handling the T-shirt manufacturing and shipping, and thanks to Misfit for the winning design. [Image link] SETI@home 10th Anniversary T-shirts are now available for order. See this thread for details. Thanks to Uli for handling the T-shirt manufacturing and shipping, and thanks to Misfit for the winning design. [Image link] SETI@home 10th Anniversary T-shirts are now available for order. See this thread for details. Thanks to Uli for handling the T-shirt manufacturing and shipping, and thanks to Misfit for the winning design. [Image link] SETI@home 10th Anniversary T-shirts are now available for order. See this thread for details. Thanks to Uli for handling the T-shirt manufacturing and shipping, and thanks to Misfit for the winning design. SETI@home 10th Anniversary T-shirts are now available for order. See this thread for details. Thanks to Uli for handling the T-shirt manufacturing and shipping, and thanks to Misfit for the winning design. If you're planning to attend the SETI@home 10th anniversary picnic in Berkeley on May 23, please RSVP if you haven't done so already. You can RSVP in this thread, send a personal message to Uli or email korpela -AT- ssl.berkeley.edu . If you're planning to attend the SETI@home 10th anniversary picnic in Berkeley on May 23, please RSVP if you haven't done so already. You can RSVP in < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=53085 " rel= " nofollow " > this thread < /a > , send a personal message to < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/pm.php?action=new & userid=729113 " rel= " nofollow " > Uli < /a > or email korpela -AT- ssl.berkeley.edu . If you're planning to attend the SETI@home 10th anniversary picnic in Berkeley on May 23, please RSVP if you haven't done so already. You can RSVP in this thread, send a personal message to Uli or email korpela -AT- ssl.berkeley.edu . If you're planning to attend the SETI@home 10th anniversary picnic in Berkeley on May 23, please RSVP if you haven't done so already. You can RSVP in this thread, send a personal message to Uli or email korpela -AT- ssl.berkeley.edu . SETI@home marks its 10th anniversary on 17 May 2009. A celebration event will be held on 21 May. Volunteers can submit que stions for a panel discussion, and can view the proceedings online. SETI@home marks its < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/anniversary_info.php " rel= " nofollow " > 10th anniversary < /a > on 17 May 2009. A < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/anniversary.php " rel= " nofollow " > celebration event < /a > will be held on 21 May. Volunteers can submit questions for a panel discussion, and can view the proceedings online. SETI@home marks its 10th anniversary on 17 May 2009. A celebration event will be held on 21 May. Volunteers can submit questions for a panel discussion, and can view the proceedings online. SETI@home marks its 10th anniversary on 17 May 2009. A celebration event will be held on 21 May. Volunteers can submit questions for a panel discussion, and can view the proceedings online.  A new portal for astronomy related newsfeeds and blogs called Portal to the Universe has opened. < a href= " http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org " rel= " nofollow " > < img src= " http://images/potu.jpg " > < /a > A new portal for astronomy related newsfeeds and blogs called < a href= " http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/ " rel= " nofollow " > Portal to the Universe < /a > has opened. [Image link] A new portal for astronomy related newsfeeds and blogs called Portal to the Universe has opened. A new portal for astronomy related newsfeeds and blogs called Portal to the Universe has opened. Our boinc mysql database crashed last night. We are down for database table repairs. The SETIbrasilia team web site has been updated with pictures of a trip to Arecibo. The < a href= " http://cetesbr.org/setibrasilia.htm " rel= " nofollow " > SETIbrasilia < /a > team web site has been updated with < a href= " http://cetesbr.org/arecibo.htm " rel= " nofollow " > pictures of a trip to Arecibo < /a > . The SETIbrasilia team web site has been updated with pictures of a trip to Arecibo. The SETIbrasilia team web site has been updated with pictures of a trip to Arecibo. Contratulations to team SETI.USA, which has recently passed the 1,000,000,000 credit mark on SETI@home and continues to pile up credits at over 1 million per day! Contratulations to team < a href= " http://www.setiusa.net " rel= " nofollow " > SETI.USA < /a > , which has recently passed the 1,000,000,000 credit mark on SETI@home and continues to pile up credits at over 1 million per day! Contratulations to team SETI.USA, which has recently passed the 1,000,000,000 credit mark on SETI@home and continues to pile up credits at over 1 million per day! Contratulations to team SETI.USA, which has recently passed the 1,000,000,000 credit mark on SETI@home and continues to pile up credits at over 1 million per day! One of our volunteers, Blurf, has started a SETI@Home Tax Time Donation Challenge! One of our volunteers, < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8473300 " rel= " nofollow " > Blurf < /a > , has started a < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=52851 " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@Home Tax Time Donation Challenge < /a > ! One of our volunteers, Blurf, has started a SETI@Home Tax Time Donation Challenge! One of our volunteers, Blurf, has started a SETI@Home Tax Time Donation Challenge! Once of our volunteers, Blurf, has started a SETI@Home Tax Time Donation Challenge! SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer gave a International Year of Astronomy talk in Berkeley on March 21st. A video of the talk is available here. SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer gave a < a href= " http://astro.berkeley.edu/~scroft/iya/ " rel= " nofollow " > International Year of Astronomy < /a > talk in Berkeley on March 21st. A video of the talk is available < a href= " http://vimeo.com/3822011?pg=embed & sec= " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer gave a International Year of Astronomy talk in Berkeley on March 21st. A video of the talk is available here. SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer gave a International Year of Astronomy talk in Berkeley on March 21st. A video of the talk is available here. SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Wethimer gave a International Year of Astronomy talk in Berkeley on March 21st. A video of the talk is available here. We are currently managing several problems with the science database server. The database will be okay, but it is currently offline. It was take a while before we are fully back up and running normally. In the meantime we will mostly be unable to create new workunits, so expect your clients to run idle for the next few days (unless you are running other BOINC projects!). We are currently managing several problems with the science database server. The database will be okay, but it is currently offline. It was take a while before we are fully back up and running normally. In the meantime we will mostly be unable to create new workunits, so expect your clients to run idle for the next few days (unless you are running other < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php " rel= " nofollow " > BOINC projects < /a > !). We are currently managing several problems with the science database server. The database will be okay, but it is currently offline. It was take a while before we are fully back up and running normally. In the meantime we will mostly be unable to create new workunits, so expect your clients to run idle for the next few days (unless you are running other BOINC projects!). Our science database crashed. It's recovering but no work will be available for a while. There is a known server problem that is currently preventing work form being sent. Congratulations to SETIBR, the Brazilian team which, across several BOINC-based projects, has achieved the levels of 100K average credit and 50M total credit. Congratulations to < a href= " http://www.setibr.org/ " rel= " nofollow " > SETIBR < /a > , the Brazilian team which, across several BOINC-based projects, has achieved the levels of 100K average credit and 50M total credit. Congratulations to SETIBR, the Brazilian team which, across several BOINC-based projects, has achieved the levels of 100K average credit and 50M total credit.  SETI@home volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area may be interested in attending some of the public events planned by the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department for the International Year of Astronomy (2009). Our own Dan Werthimer will be speaking on March 21st. < a href= " http://astro.berkeley.edu/~scroft/iya/ " rel= " nofollow " > < img src= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/images/iya_logo_sm.jpg " > < /a > SETI@home volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area may be interested in attending some of the < a href= " http://astro.berkeley.edu/~scroft/iya/ " rel= " nofollow " > public events < /a > planned by the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department for the International Year of Astronomy (2009). Our own Dan Werthimer will be speaking on March 21st. SETI@home volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area may be interested in attending some of the public events planned by the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department for the International Year of Astronomy (2009). Our own Dan Werthimer will be speaking on March 21st. Our scheduling server has crashed and so no work is being distributed. This may not get fixed for a day or two.  A version of SETI@home that runs on NVIDIA graphics boards using their CUDA computing engine has been released. The CUDA version runs up to 10X faster than the CPU version. NVIDIA has put out a press release about the SETI@home CUDA client and about GPU Grid. See directions for getting started. < img src= " http://images/NV_DesignedFor_CUDA_3D_tiny.png " > A version of SETI@home that runs on NVIDIA graphics boards using their CUDA computing engine has been released. The CUDA version runs up to 10X faster than the CPU version. NVIDIA has put out a < a href= " http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1229516081227.html " rel= " nofollow " > press release < /a > about the SETI@home CUDA client and about < a href= " http://gpugrid.net " rel= " nofollow " > GPU Grid < /a > . See < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/cuda.php " rel= " nofollow " > directions for getting started < /a > . A version of SETI@home that runs on NVIDIA graphics boards using their CUDA computing engine has been released. The CUDA version runs up to 10X faster than the CPU version. NVIDIA has put out a press release about the SETI@home CUDA client and about GPU Grid. See direct ions for getting started. A version of SETI@home that runs on NVIDIA graphics boards using their CUDA computing engine has been released. The CUDA version runs up to 10X faster than the CPU version. NVIDIA has put out a press release about the SETI@home CUDA client and about GPU Grid. See directi ons for getting started. Our new SETI@home application for NVIDIA graphics boards that support their CUDA computing engine has been released. The CUDA application can be more than 10X as fast as the CPU based application. NVIDIA has put out a press release about the SETI@home CUDA client and about GPU G rid. Directions for getting started are located here.. Our new SETI@home application for NVIDIA graphics boards that support their CUDA computing engine will be available for download shortly. Directions for getting started are located here. NVIDIA has put out a press release about the SETI@home CUDA client and GPU Grid. Giuseppe Cocconi, author (with Philip Morrison) of the first paper on radio SETI, 'Searching for Interstellar Communications' and a central figure in particle physics and cosmic rays, passed away on 9 November at age 94. Read more about Cocconi.  Overland Storage donated 10 Terabytes of network attached storage to us today (in the form of one Snap Server 18 000 and two SD30 expansion units). This will vastly help our current workunit/raw data storage problems. Thank you Overland! Giuseppe Cocconi, author (with Philip Morrison) of the first paper on radio SETI, 'Searching for Interstellar Communications' and a central figure in particle physics and cosmic rays, passed away on 9 November at age 94. < a href= " http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1142555?ln=en " rel= " nofollow " > Read more about Cocconi < /a > . < a href= " http://www.overlandstorage.com " rel= " nofollow " > < img src= " http://images/overland_small_logo.jpg " > < /a > < a href= " http://www.overlandstorage.com " rel= " nofollow " > Overland Storage < /a > donated 10 Terabytes of network attached storage to us today (in the form of one Snap Server 18000 and two SD30 expansion units). This will vastly help our current workunit/raw data storage problems. Thank you Overland! Overland Storage donated 10 Terabytes of network attached storage to us today (in the form of one Snap Server 18000 and two SD30 expansion units). This will vastly help our current workunit/raw data storage problems. Thank you Overland! Overland Storage donated 10 Terabytes of network attached storage to us today (in the form of one Snap Server 18000 and two SD30 expansion units). This will vastly help our current workunit/raw data storage problems. Thank you Overland! Giuseppe Cocconi, author (with Philip Morrison) of the first paper on radio SETI, 'Searching for Interstellar Communications' and a central figure in particle physics and cosmic rays, passed away on 9 November at age 94. Read more about Cocconi. Check out the new Spanish-language site, BOINC SETI Chile.[/url] Check out the new Spanish-language site, < a href= " http://www.seti.cl/ " rel= " nofollow " > BOINC SETI Chile < /a > .[/url] Check out the new Spanish-language site, BOINC SETI Chile. The CASPER/SETI@home/Astropulse teams wrote a joint paper about New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses. Warning: highly technical (to be published in Acta Astronautica). The CASPER/SETI@home/Astropulse teams wrote a joint paper about < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_papers/berkeley_pulse_search_paper_nov_2008.pdf " rel= " nofollow " > New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses < /a > . Warning: highly technical (to be published in < a href= " http://iaaweb.org/content/view/53/100/ " rel= " nofollow " > Acta Astronautica < /a > ). The CASPER/SETI@home/Astropulse teams wrote a joint paper about New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses. Warning: highly technical (to be published in Acta Astronautica). We're looking for an attorney to assist us with setting up a charitable 501(c)(3) foundation which will handle fundraising operations for the SETI@home project. We're < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=50095 " rel= " nofollow " > looking for an attorney < /a > to assist us with setting up a charitable 501(c)(3) foundation which will handle fundraising operations for the SETI@home project. We're looking for an attorney to assist us with setting up a charitable 501(c)(3) foundation which will handle fundraising operations for the SETI@home project. We're looking for an attorney to assist us with setting up a charitable 501(c)(3) foundation which will handle fundraising operations for the SETI@home project. We're looking for an attorney to assist us with setting up a charitable 503(c) foundation which will handle fundraising operations for the SETI@home project. Some of our volunteers have started a Halloween Donation Challenge. Feel free to beat the holiday rush. Assuming your bank is still in business, and you can still afford it. Some of our volunteers have started a < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=49796 " rel= " nofollow " > Halloween Donation Challenge < /a > . Feel free to beat the holiday rush. Assuming your bank is still in business, and you can still afford it. By 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! By the way... SETI@home just received its < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1000000000 " rel= " nofollow " > billionth result < /a > using BOINC - thanks to everybody who donated their computing power to help us reach this incredible milestone! Some of our volunteers have started a Halloween Donation Challenge. Feel free to beat the holiday rush. Assuming your bank is still in business, and you can still afford it. By 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! The Planetary Society presents a radio interview with Dan Werthimer: "Astropulse: A New Way for E.T. to Phone Home" < a href= " http://planetary.org " rel= " nofollow " > The Planetary Society < /a > presents a radio interview with Dan Werthimer: " < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/radio/show/00000306/ " rel= " nofollow " > Astropulse: A New Way for E.T. to Phone Home < /a > " The Planetary Society presents a radio interview with Dan Werthimer: "Astropulse: A New Way for E.T. to Phone Home" We are having minor problems with the science database, so you may be experiencing difficulty trying to download new workunits. The 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 compu ters running BOINC. If you would like to participate the survey is here. New article from The Planetary Society: "Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T." New article from < a href= " http://planetary.org " rel= " nofollow " > The Planetary Society < /a > : " < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20080827.html " rel= " nofollow " > Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T. < /a > " The 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 < a href= " http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2286WHPXQ8K " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . New article from The Planetary Society: "Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T." The 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. Apparently people weren't satisfied with a 3 day challenge, so Blurf started a new 5 Day SETI Donation Challenge. Apparently people weren't satisfied with a 3 day challenge, so Blurf started a < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=48867 " rel= " nofollow " > new 5 Day SETI Donation Challenge < /a > . Apparently people weren't satisfied with a 3 day challenge, so Blurf started a new 5 Day SETI Donation Challenge. Thank you to all who gave for Blurf's 3 Day Seti Donation Challenge! The final amounts are: $5977.65 Donated and $6500 Pledged. Thank you to all who gave for Blurf's < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=48786 " rel= " nofollow " > 3 Day Seti Donation Challenge < /a > ! The final amounts are: $5977.65 Donated and $6500 Pledged. Some of our volunteers have started a 3 Day Donation Challenge. Some of our volunteers have started a < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=48786 " rel= " nofollow " > 3 Day Donation Challenge < /a > . Thank you to all who gave for Blurf's 3 Day Seti Donation Challenge! The final amounts are: $5977.65 Donated and $6500 Pledged. Some of our volunteers have started a 3 Day Donation Challenge. The 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. The 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. The upload server has been down since yesterday. We are aware of and are working on the problem. We'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. We've started creating work for SETI@home's new < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_faq.php " rel= " nofollow " > Astropulse < /a > application. At first we will just create a small amount, but we expect to enter full production next week. We'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. Apple/Mac computers have been unable to get new workunits since yesterday - we're working on this bug. There is an article at Wikinews[/url] about the budget cuts that threaten the Arecibo telescope. There is an < a > article at Wikinews[/url] about the budget cuts that threaten the Arecibo telescope. Apple/Mac computers have been unable to get new workunits since yesterday - we're working on this bug. There is an article at Wikinews about the budget cuts that threaten the Arecibo telescope. We 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. We 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. We are working on a sudden (as of yesterday) database performance problem. Work distribution will be slow until we fix this. Forums and other web features involving the database are currently off. Update - July 10: no solutions yet - various services will be up and down as testing continues. Update - July 11: We are still working on the problem. Web access to the database (eg forums) will likely be off all weekend. We are working on a sudden (as of yesterday) database performance problem. Work distribution will be slow until we fix this. Forums and other web features involving the database are currently off. Update - July 10: no solutions yet - various services will be up and down as testing continues. We are working on a sudden (as of yesterday) database performance problem. Work distribution will be slow until we fix this. Forums and other web features involving the database are currently off. The 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 fu nding. The future of Arecibo Observatory (where SETI@home collects its data) is threatened. If you are a U.S. citizen, < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/arecibo_letter.php " rel= " nofollow " > please write your representatives < /a > to support the Senate bill and House resolution to continue Arecibo's funding. The 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. We 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. We 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. We 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. We 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. The assimilators started malfunctioning over the weekend, which indicates that there may be a problem in a portion of the science database. We've had to turn off work generation while we discuss our options. We will probably be out of work in 8 hours or so. SETI@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 maga zine. SETI@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 < a href= " http://radio.seti.org/ " rel= " nofollow " > 'Are We Alone' < /a > , the SETI Institute's Weekly radio magazine. SETI@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. Congratulations to team SETI.USA. Their total BOINC credits have exceeded 1 billion cobblestones! Congratulations to team < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=115396 " rel= " nofollow " > SETI.USA < /a > . Their total BOINC credits have exceeded 1 billion cobblestones! Congratulations to team SETI.USA. Their total BOINC credits have exceeded 1 billion cobblestones! The 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. The 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 < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sci_status.html " rel= " nofollow " > Science Status < /a > page we added counts of signals SETI@home found where the Arecibo is currently pointing. The 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. We continue to have workunit storage server problems but hope to have the machine replaced today (but may not have it on line until tomorrow). Until this new system is in place workunit downloads will be disabled. We are having workunit storage server problems again. We turned off workunit downloads for the evening. If you are having trouble downloading workunits, please try again later. We are having workunit storage server problems again. If you are having trouble downloading workunits, please try again in a few hours. Due to minor but important database repairs we're taking the project offline for a few hours this morning (Pacific time). The upload/download servers and some web pages are offline during this time. Some 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. Some SETI@home volunteers put together a < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/arthur_c_clarke.html " rel= " nofollow " > tribute to Arthur C. Clarke < /a > as a means of paying their final respects. We are sure he would have been touched by your sentiments. Some 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. Last night the BOINC database server crashed - all services are recovering now. Last night the BOINC database server crashed - all services are recovering now. Last night the BOINC database server crashed - it's recovering now and the project should be up shortly. Our download storage server has been experiencing various problems lately, making it difficult to download new workunits over the past week. We believe we corrected the problem. Our download storage server has been experiencing various problems. If you are unable to download new workunits, try again in a few hours. Our download storage server is on the fritz - new workunits are unavailable at this time. Arthur C. Clarke, visionary science fiction writer and friend of the SETI@home Project, passed away today at the age of 90. Arthur C. Clarke, visionary science fiction writer and friend of the SETI@home Project, passed away today at the age of 90. A tip of the hat to the Clemson University #1 team, which has been the top-ranked team in the University category for several years. A tip of the hat to the < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=101574 " rel= " nofollow " > Clemson University #1 < /a > team, which has been the top-ranked team in the University category for several years. A tip of the hat to the Clemson University #1 team, which has been the top-ranked team in the University category for several years. We have been informed of the passing of a dedicated SETI@home volunteer and active participant on the forums, Dennis Peters, (aka Dogbytes). Our condolences go out to his family and friends. We have been informed of the passing of a dedicated SETI@home volunteer and active participant on the forums, Dennis Peters, (aka < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=128990 " rel= " nofollow " > Dogbytes < /a > ). Our condolences go out to his family and friends. We have been informed of the passing of a dedicated SETI@home volunteer and active participant on the forums, Dennis Peters, (aka Dogbytes). Our condolences go out to his family and friends. A new article from the Planetary Society: From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape. A new article from the < a href= " http://www.planetary.org " rel= " nofollow " > Planetary Society < /a > : < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20080115.html " rel= " nofollow " > From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape < /a > . A new article from the Planetary Society: From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape. A new article from the Planetary Society: From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizens' Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape. UC Berkeley Press Release: SETI@home looking for more volunteers. UC Berkeley Press Release: < a href= " http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/01/02_setiahome.shtml " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home looking for more volunteers < /a > . Outage Update: Last night (December 6) around 15:00 PST we powered down the entire project for lab-wide electrical repairs. Without much ado we turned everything back on this morning, and all data servers are slowly catching up. < b > Outage Update < /b > : Last night (December 6) around 15:00 < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/utc.php " rel= " nofollow " > PST < /a > we powered down the entire project for lab-wide electrical repairs. Without much ado we turned everything back on this morning, and all data servers are slowly catching up. Outage Update: Last night (December 6) around 15:00 PST we powered down the entire project for lab-wide electrical repairs. Without much ado we turned everything back on this morning, and all data servers are slowly catching up. Outage Warning: This Thursday (December 6) around 15:00 PST we will be shutting the entire project down all night for lab-wide electrical repairs. All web sites and data servers will be offline until Friday morning. Live in Washington DC? Get together with other BOINC users via Meetup (or create a Meetup in your own city). Live in Washington DC? Get together with other BOINC users via < a href= " http://opensource.meetup.com/84/?gj=sj2 " rel= " nofollow " > Meetup < /a > (or < a href= " http://opensource.meetup.com/ " rel= " nofollow " > create a Meetup in your own city < /a > ). Live in Washington DC? Get together with other BOINC users via < a href= " http://opensource.meetup.com/84/?gj=sj2 " rel= " nofollow " > Meetup < /a > (or [url=http://opensource.meetup.com/]create a Meetup in your own city[/url]). Live in Washington DC? Get together with other BOINC users via Meetup (or create a Meetup in your own city). Outage update: This Thursday's proposed electrical outage (for lab wide repairs) has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled sometime in the coming weeks. Outage alert: We are shutting down the entire project at 15:00 PST on Thursday, November 29th for lab-wide electrical repairs. This may take all night - we will try to bring everything back up the following morning as early as possible. Our power outage went fine. However, the machine that runs the science database and holds the raw data is conducting a periodic automatic file system check. This will take a long time. The project will likely run out of work before this is complete. We will likely catch back up tomorrow. The preferences for email notification of private messages was mistakenly initialized to 'on'. We have changed it to 'off' for all users. If you want to turn it back on, go here. The preferences for email notification of private messages was mistakenly initialized to 'on'. We have changed it to 'off' for all users. If you want to turn it back on, < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/edit_forum_preferences_form.php " rel= " nofollow " > go here < /a > . The preferences for email notification of private messages was mistakenly initialized to 'on'. We have changed it to 'off' for all users. If you want to turn it back on, go here. We will be having a 4 hour outage on Monday, 11/19/2007, starting at 10:00 PST. The purpose of this outage is to reroute many of the power cords for the project servers, rearrange some of our UPSs and pull deprecated equipment out of the server room. We will be having a 4 hour outage on Monday, 11/19/2007, starting at 10:00 < a href= " http://utc.php " rel= " nofollow " > PST < /a > . The purpose of this outage is to reroute many of the power cords for the project servers, rearrange some of our UPSs and pull deprecated equipment out of the server room. We will be having a 4 hour outage on Monday, 11/19/2007, staring at 10:00 PST. The purpose of this outage is to reroute many of the power cords for the project servers, rearrange some of our UPSs and pull deprecated equipment out of the server room. We will be having a 4 hour outage on Monday, 11/19/2007, starting at 10:00 PST. The purpose of this outage is to reroute many of the power cords for the project servers, rearrange some of our UPSs and pull deprecated equipment out of the server room. A big index build is stressing our science databases and the splitters are running very slowly. This has resulted in the project running out of work to send. We hope to see it clear by tomorrow morning. New science newsletter: Planetary System Detected Around SETI@home Target Star (article from the the Planetary Society). New science newsletter: < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20071108.html " rel= " nofollow " > Planetary System Detected Around SETI@home Target Star < /a > (article from the < a href= " http://www.planetary.org " rel= " nofollow " > the Planetary Society < /a > ). A big index build is stressing our science databases and the splitters are running very slowly. This has resulted in the project running out of work to send. We hope to see it clear by tomorrow morning. New science newsletter: Planetary System Detected Around SETI@home Target Star (article from the the Planetary Society). A big index build is stressing our science databases and the splitters are running very slowly. This has resulted in the project running out of work to send. We hope to see it clear by tomorrow morning. SETI@home user Melt Wreckage sent us a song Arecibo Dance inspired by the 1974 radio transmission from Arecibo. SETI@home user Melt Wreckage sent us a song < a href= " http://user_images/arecibo.mp3 " rel= " nofollow " > Arecibo Dance < /a > inspired by the < a href= " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message " rel= " nofollow " > 1974 radio transmission from Arecibo < /a > . SETI@home user Melt Wreckage sent us a song Arecibo Dance inspired by the 1974 radio transmission from Arecibo. We are having air conditioning problems. The project is down for the night. We are having air conditioning problems. The project is down for the night. In order to quickly recover from the fallout of recent server outages, we'll be offline all night to clean up the database. Data transactions will resume Tuesday afternoon. In order to quickly recover from the fallout of recent server outages, we'll be offline all night to clean up the database. Data transactions will resume Tuesday afternoon. Upload service is back to normal. Details are in technical news. Upload service is back to normal. Details are in < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=42771 " rel= " nofollow " > technical news < /a > . Upload service is back to normal. Details are in technical news. We tried moving the upload store off of a possibly flaky disk array yesterday. This slowed upload service dramatically. The slowdown was unexpected and we are in the process of fixing it.[/url]. We tried moving the upload store off of a possibly flaky disk array yesterday. This slowed upload service dramatically. The slowdown was unexpected and we are in the process of fixing it.[/url]. We tried moving the upload store off of a possibly flaky disk array yesterday. This slowed upload service dramatically. The slowdown was unexpected and we are in the process of fixing it.. We had three server crashes over the weekend and are recovering now. Details later today in technical news. We had three server crashes over the weekend and are recovering now. Details later today in < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=21 " rel= " nofollow " > technical news < /a > . We had three server crashes over the weekend and are recovering now. Details later today in technical news. We note the passing of dedicated SETI@home volunteer John McCoy. Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his friends and family. We note the passing of dedicated SETI@home volunteer < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu//show_user.php?userid=8100829 " rel= " nofollow " > John McCoy. < /a > Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his friends and family. We note the passing of dedicated SETI@home volunteer John McCoy. Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his friends and family. One of our two data servers has crashed. Work distribution will be slow until we can tend to the down server tomorrow morning. There were some problems with our science database server over the weekend but we are currently creating and sending out new work. There were some problems with our science database server over the weekend but we are currently creating and sending out new work. There were some problems with our science database server over the weekend but we are currently creating and sending out new work. We are having problems with our science database server. Currently we are not generating any new work to send out. The problematic server is back up and work is flowing. The problematic server is back up and work is flowing. Were're having problems with one our servers. We'll be down until someone can get into the lab to fix it. Were're having problems with one our servers. We'll be down until someone can get into the lab to fix it. Our BOINC database server crashed this afternoon and finally recovered. However other systems are having problems. We're probably going to be offline all night. All data services will be off until we clean all these things up. Our BOINC database server crashed this afternoon and finally recovered. However other systems are having problems. We're probably going to be offline all night. All data services will be off until we clean all these things up. Our BOINC database server crashed this afternoon and finally recovered. However other systems are having problems. We're probably going to be offline all night. All data services will be off until we clean all these things up. Our Internet connectivity was restored at 01:00 PDT today. Our Internet connectivity was restored at 01:00 < a href= " http://utc.php " rel= " nofollow " > PDT < /a > today. Our Internet connectivity was restored at 01:00 PDT today. All of our servers came up fine after the power outage. However we are currently experiencing a routing problem that we are working with campus on. This problem is preventing the distribution of work. At this point it looks like we will be off the air until tomorrow. All of our servers came up fine after the power outage. However we are currently experiencing a routing problem that we are working with campus on. This problem is preventing the distribution of work. At this point it looks like we will be off the air until tomorrow. All of our servers came up fine after the power outage. However we are currently experiencing a routing problem that we are working with campus on. This problem is preventing the distribution of work. If you are having problems with the MacOS version of SETI@home (5.21) please reset the project to get version 5.22. There will be a lab-wide power outage (for repairs in a nearby building) this weekend. We'll be shutting down BOINC/SETI@home services around 16:00 PDT on Saturday, and coming back on line 08:00 PDT on Sunday. A ll web/data servers will be unreachable during this time. There will be a lab-wide power outage (for repairs in a nearby building) this weekend. We'll be shutting down BOINC/SETI@home services around 16:00 < a href= " http://utc.php " rel= " nofollow " > PDT < /a > on Saturday, and coming back on line 08:00 < a href= " http://utc.php " rel= " nofollow " > PDT < /a > on Sunday. All web/data servers will be unreachable during this time. If you are having problems with the MacOS version of SETI@home (5.21) please reset the project to get version 5.22. There will be a lab-wide power outage (for repairs in a nearby building) this weekend. We'll be shutting down BOINC/SETI@home services around 16:00 PDT on Saturday, and coming back on line 08:00 PDT on Sunday. All web/data servers will be unreachable during this time. Here's a SETI@home Update (article written by the Planetary Society). A mysterious source of radio interference has been identified and fixed - read about it here. Here's < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20070706.html " rel= " nofollow " > a SETI@home Update < /a > (article written by < a href= " http://www.planetary.org " rel= " nofollow " > the Planetary Society < /a > ). A mysterious source of radio interference has been identified and fixed - < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_sci_newsletters.php?frag=news-24.inc " rel= " nofollow " > read about it here < /a > . Here is a newsletter on the radar blanking. Here's a SETI@home Update (article written by the Planetary Society). A mysterious source of radio interference has been identified and fixed - read about it here. Amir Alexander of The Planetary Society talks about SETI, distributed computing, and space exploration in an interview by Mike of BOINC UK. Amir Alexander of The Planetary Society talks about < a href= " http://www.boincuk.com/amir_alexander.mp3 " rel= " nofollow " > SETI, distributed computing, and space exploration < /a > in an interview by Mike of BOINC UK. Amir Alexander of The Planetary Society talks about SETI, distributed computing, and space exploration in an interview by Mike of BOINC UK. Help increase SETI@home's computing power - publicize SETI@home and BOINC by writing to computer magazines. Help increase SETI@home's computing power - < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BoincPr " rel= " nofollow " > publicize SETI@home and BOINC < /a > by writing to computer magazines. Help increase SETI@home's computing power - publicize SETI@home and BOINC by writing to computer magazines. We have an update on the Arecibo Painting Upgrade. We have an update on the < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_sci_newsletters.php?frag=news-23.inc " rel= " nofollow " > Arecibo Painting Upgrade < /a > . We have an update on the Arecibo Painting Upgrade. We're having a brief server outage to reconfigure our databases. We should be back up in an hour or so. We're having a brief server outage to reconfigure our databases. We should be back up in an hour or so. Read about how to participate in grid computing projects that benefit humanity. Read about < a href= " http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html " rel= " nofollow " > how to participate in grid computing projects that benefit humanity < /a > . Read about how to participate in grid computing projects that benefit humanity. We're moving our usual Tuesday outage to today (Monday) in order to clean up some problems we've been having with the BOINC database over the weekend. The data servers and most web pages will be offline during this time. We're moving our usual Tuesday outage to today (Monday) in order to clean up some problems we've been having with the BOINC database over the weekend. The data servers and most web pages will be offline during this time. Update: We're moving our usual Tuesday outage to today (Monday) in order to clean up some problems we've been having with the BOINC database over the weekend. The data servers and most web pages will be offline during this time. More database problems over the weekend, so connectivity has been spotty at best. We hope to have this cleared up in the next day or two. We're moving our usual Tuesday outage to today (Monday) in order to clean up some problems we've been having with the BOINC database over the weekend. The data servers and most web pages will be offline during this time. We are back up after some additional complications. There will be a period of "catch up" before things are back to normal. The database and project have been down for a few hours. We're working on the slow feeder problem that was causing work distribution to go slowly. The database and project have been down for a few hours. We're working on the slow feeder problem that was causing work distribution to go slowly. We are back up after some additional complications. There will be a period of " catch up " before things are back to normal. We are back up after some additional complications. There will be a period of "catch up" before things are back to normal. The database and project have been down for a few hours. We're working on the slow feeder problem that was causing work distribution to go slowly. We've solved yesterday's problem and we're back up. We've solved yesterday's problem and we're back up. We've been down since about 3pm Pacific because of further server problems. If your BOINC client is not able to upload to or download from the SETI@Home servers, look for the message Message from Server: Incomplete request received in the BOINC Manager messages area. If you see that message, stopping and restarting your BOINC client should fix the proble m. If your BOINC client is not able to upload to or download from the SETI@Home servers, look for the message < i > Message from Server: Incomplete request received < /i > in the BOINC Manager messages area. If you see that message, stopping and restarting your BOINC client should fix the problem. If your BOINC client is not able to upload to or download from the SETI@Home servers, look for the message Message from Server: Incomplete request received in the BOINC Manager messages area. If you see that message, stopping and restarting your BOINC client should fix the problem. We got the new server yesterday, inserted our old disks and booted it up. It came right up, but verifying the file systems took overnight. The work is being created, the splitters and assimilators are working. It will be a while before we catch up. Thank you for your continued pat ience and support. We got the new server yesterday, inserted our old disks and booted it up. It came right up, but verifying the file systems took overnight. The work is being created, the splitters and assimilators are working. It will be a while before we catch up. Thank you for your continued patience and support. We got the new server yesterday, inserted our old disks and booted it up. It came right up, but verifying the file systems took overnight. The work is being created, the splitters and assimilators are working. It will be a while before we catch up. Thank you for your continued patience and support. Update: We got the new server yesterday, inserted our old disks and booted it up. It came right up, but verifying the file systems took overnight. The work is being created, the splitters and assimilators are working. It will be a while before we catch up. Thank you for your continued patience and support. Our science database server died on Tuesday, May 1st. We haven't been able to create new workunits since then (though we are still accepting completed results). Sun is graciously replacing this server. The bad news is, despite earlier clai ms, it won't be here until Friday the 11th, which means the earliest we'll be creating new work is Monday the 14th. Thank you for your continued patience! Updates, discussion, and more information about this and other server-related topics can be found in Technical News. Our science database server died on Tuesday, May 1st. We haven't been able to create new workunits since then (though we are still accepting completed results). < a href= " http://www.sun.com " rel= " nofollow " > Sun < /a > is graciously replacing this server. The bad news is, despite earlier claims, it won't be here until Friday the 11th, which means the earliest we'll be creating new work is Monday the 14th. Thank you for your continued patience! Updates, discussion, and more information about this and other server-related topics can be found in < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=21 " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Our science database server died on Tuesday, May 1st. We haven't been able to create new workunits since then (though we are still accepting completed results). Sun is graciously replacing this server. The bad news is, despite earlier claims, it won't be here until Friday the 11th, which means the earliest we'll be creating new work is Monday the 14th. Thank you for your continued patience! Updates, discussion, and more information about this and other server-related topics can be found in Technical News. Update: Our science database server died on Tuesday, May 1st. We haven't been able to create new workunits since then (though we are still accepting completed results). Sun is graciously replacing this server. The bad news is, despite earlier claims, it won't be here until Friday the 11th, which means the earliest we'll be creating new work is Monday the 14th. Thank you for your continued patience! Updates, discussion, and more information about this and other server-related topics can be found in Technical News. Our science database is still dead (see below and in Technical News for more info). The current ETA for a replacement server from Sun is tomorrow (Tuesday) - the earliest we could possibly get everything working again will be Wednesday. Thank you for your continued patience! Great news! Sun Microsystems is coming to the rescue and will be replacing our inoperative science data base server. They are preparing the machine now and will be rushing it to us on Monday. Once we have the machine up and the databa se recovered, we can start sending work out again. Details on the server crash and our recovery from it can be found in Technical News. Great news! < a href= " http://www.sun.com/ " rel= " nofollow " > Sun Microsystems < /a > is coming to the rescue and will be replacing our inoperative science data base server. They are preparing the machine now and will be rushing it to us on Monday. Once we have the machine up and the database recovered, we can start sending work out again. Details on the server crash and our recovery from it can be found in < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=21 " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Great news! Sun Microsystems is coming to the rescue and will be replacing our inoperative science data base server. They are preparing the machine now and will be rushing it to us on Monday. Once we have the machine up and the database recovered, we can start sending work out again. Details on the server crash and our recovery from it can be found in Technical News. Happy May Day. Unfortunately for us it's been "Mayday! Mayday!" At 4:43 (PDT) this morning, our science database machine, thumper, became hasenfeffer. It currently refuses to acknowledge that it has any disk drives. Since the controllers are attached to the motherboard, major repairs will proba bly be required. No work can be created until this machine gets fixed. We are on the phone with Sun now in hopes of securing repair or a replacement. More info in Technical News. Happy May Day. Unfortunately for us it's been " Mayday! Mayday! " At 4:43 (PDT) this morning, our science database machine, thumper, became hasenfeffer. It currently refuses to acknowledge that it has any disk drives. Since the controllers are attached to the motherboard, major repairs will probably be required. No work can be created until this machine gets fixed. We are on the phone with Sun now in hopes of securing repair or a replacement. More info in < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=21 " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Happy May Day. Unfortunately for us it's been "Mayday! Mayday!" At 4:43 (PDT) this morning, our science database machine, thumper, became hasenfeffer. It currently refuses to acknowledge that it has any disk drives. Since the controllers are attached to the motherboard, major repairs will probably be required. No work can be created until this machine gets fixed. We are on the phone with Sun now in hopes of securing repair or a replacement. More info in Technical News. Happy May Day. Unfortunately for us it's been "Mayday! Mayday!" At 4:43 (PDT) this morning, our science database machine, thumper, became hasenfeffer. It currently refuses to acknowledge that it has any disk drives. Since the controllers are attached to the motherboard, major repairs will probably be required. No work can be created until this machine gets fixed. We are on the phone with Sun now in hopes of securing repair or a replacement. Since the announcement of Gliese 581c (the first possibly habitable extrasolar planet), we've been asked many times about what we have seen during our observations of this red dwarf star. Unfortunately, Gliese 581 is l ocated just beyond the visible sky we can see at Arecibo Observatory, so we actually made no such observations. Since the announcement of < a href= " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581 " rel= " nofollow " > Gliese 581c < /a > (the first possibly habitable extrasolar planet), we've been asked many times about what we have seen during our observations of this red dwarf star. Unfortunately, Gliese 581 is located just beyond the visible sky we can see at Arecibo Observatory, so we actually made no such observations. Since the announcement of Gliese 581c (the first possibly habitable extrasolar planet), we've been asked many times about what we have seen during our observations of this red dwarf star. Unfortunately, Gliese 581 is located just beyond the visible sky we can see at Arecibo Observatory, so we actually made no such observations. Arecibo Observatory is currently shut down for three months to clean up corrosion on the telescope platform (which includes safe removal of lead paint). SETI@home will continue to operate on classic data, and we have a backlog of new multibeam data to analyze as well. While not coll ecting data we'll have extra time to work on Astropulse. Arecibo Observatory is currently shut down for three months to clean up corrosion on the telescope platform (which includes safe removal of lead paint). SETI@home will continue to operate on classic data, and we have a backlog of new multibeam data to analyze as well. While not collecting data we'll have extra time to work on < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_110501.htm " rel= " nofollow " > Astropulse < /a > . Arecibo Observatory is currently shut down for three months to clean up corrosion on the telescope platform (which includes safe removal of lead paint). SETI@home will continue to operate on classic data, and we have a backlog of new multibeam data to analyze as well. While not collecting data we'll have extra time to work on Astropulse. As we are close to distributing new data recorded with the multi-beam recorder, we decreased redundancy levels for current data. In the near term, there may be periods when it is difficult to obtain work. Your BOINC clients should retry regularly on their own and will eventually ge t data to process. As we are close to distributing new data recorded with the multi-beam recorder, we decreased redundancy levels for current data. In the near term, there may be periods when it is difficult to obtain work. Your BOINC clients should retry regularly on their own and will eventually get data to process. As we are close to distributing new data recorded with the multi-beam recorder, we decreased redundancy levels for current data. In the near term, there may be periods when it is difficult to obtain work. Your BOINC clients should retry regularly on their own and will eventually get data to process. As we are close to distributing new data recorded with the multi-beam recorder, we descreased redundancy levels for current data. In the near term, there may be periods when it is difficult to obtain work. Your BOINC clients should retry regularly on their own and will eventually get data to process. We are moving our database service around. Db_dump (stats) is off for a couple of days.. We are moving our database service around. Db_dump (stats) is off for a couple of days.. We are moving our database service around. Db_dump (stats) is off for a couple of days.. This week our servers are being patched to include the new Daylight Savings Time schedule. Certain services (web sites, data transfers, etc.) may by off-line for short periods. This week our servers are being patched to include the new Daylight Savings Time schedule. Certain services (web sites, data transfers, etc.) may by off-line for short periods. Yet another reason to run SETI@home - it can help recover stolen laptops. Yet another reason to run SETI@home - it can help < a href= " http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_aliens_laptop " rel= " nofollow " > recover stolen laptops < /a > . We are in process of making network changes which may have affected your SETI@home client's ability to connect to our servers. If you are having trouble, try this. We are in process of making network changes which may have affected your SETI@home client's ability to connect to our servers. If you are having trouble, < a href= " http://flushdns.php " rel= " nofollow " > try this < /a > . GridRepublic has been selected as a finalist for the Web Awards at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival. Please click here to cast your vote for them at the SXSW w ebsite. < a href= " http://gridrepublic.org " rel= " nofollow " > GridRepublic < /a > has been selected as a finalist for the Web Awards at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival. Please < a href= " https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/ " rel= " nofollow " > click here < /a > to cast your vote for them at the SXSW website. We're currently in the middle of network/database testing. Connections to our web and data servers may be intermittent. We're currently in the middle of network/database testing. Connections to our web and data servers may be intermittent. We are experiencing a database problem that is leading to erratic work distribution. We will run diagnostics and rebuild the affected tables(s) tomorrow. We are experiencing a database problem that is leading to erratic work distribution. We will run diagnostics and rebuild the affected tables(s) tomorrow. MySpace members: check out the BOINC on MySpace group. MySpace members: check out the < a href= " http://groups.myspace.com/BOINConMYSPACE " rel= " nofollow " > BOINC on MySpace < /a > group. We recovered from database problems over the past weekend. This was resulting in erratic workunit downloads. More in Tech News. We recovered from database problems over the past weekend. This was resulting in erratic workunit downloads. More in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Tech News < /a > . We recovered from database problems over the past weekend. This was resulting in erratic workunit downloads. More in [url=tech_news.php]Tech News[/url]. UC Berkeley Press Release: SETI@home looking for more volunteers. SETI@home Classic users: you can now transfer your workunit totals to your SETI@home/BOINC account, even if you lost your Classic password. BOINC's new Online Help system lets you get help from volunteers by talking with them using Skype. Volunteers speak several languages. SETI@home Classic users: you can now < a href= " http://sah_classic_link.php " rel= " nofollow " > transfer your workunit totals to your SETI@home/BOINC account < /a > , even if you lost your Classic password. BOINC's new < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php " rel= " nofollow " > Online Help system < /a > lets you get help from volunteers by talking with them using < a href= " http://www.skype.com " rel= " nofollow " > Skype < /a > . Volunteers speak several languages. Check out new add-on software: the SETI@home Toolbar for Firefox and IE on Windows, and Boinctray, a system tray application for Linux. Check out new add-on software: the < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/addon_item.php?platform=browser & item=http%3A%2F%2Fsetihometoolbar.ourtoolbar.com%2F " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home Toolbar < /a > for Firefox and IE on Windows, and < a href= " http://www.helsinki.fi/~earajarv/programs/boinctray/ " rel= " nofollow " > Boinctray < /a > , a system tray application for Linux. Vote for SETI@home (or not) in the BOINCcast.de screensaver contest (in German). UPDATE: SETI@home wins in the Natural Sciences division, edging out QMC at home. Vote tally is here. Vote for SETI@home (or not) in the < a href= " http://boinccast.podspot.de/ " rel= " nofollow " > BOINCcast.de screensaver contest < /a > (in German). < b > UPDATE: SETI@home wins in the Natural Sciences division, edging out < a href= " http://qah.uni-muenster.de/index.php " rel= " nofollow " > QMC at home < /a > < /b > . Vote tally is < a href= " http://www.boinc-halle-saale.de/Bilder/Bildschirmschoner/Votingergebnis_1.GIF " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . Dr. Eric Korpela was interviewed by Graeme Knight (a Post Graduate Astronomy student with Swinburne University, Victoria, Australia). Eric explains how SETI@home works, how the data is processed and the possibilities of finding ET. Download the MP3 file (11.8 MB). The interview was recorded at the studios of Radio KLFM. Dr. Eric Korpela was interviewed by Graeme Knight (a Post Graduate Astronomy student with Swinburne University, Victoria, Australia). Eric explains how SETI@home works, how the data is processed and the possibilities of finding ET. Download the < a href= " http://mp3/ek_interview_11_06.mp3 " rel= " nofollow " > MP3 file < /a > (11.8 MB). The interview was recorded at the studios of < a href= " http://www.klfm.com.au " rel= " nofollow " > Radio KLFM < /a > . Check out this SETI@home wallpaper from Scott Linder:  Check out this SETI@home wallpaper from Scott Linder: < a href= " http://user_images/swp2.jpg " rel= " nofollow " > < img src= " http://user_images/swp_120.jpg " > < /a > We had a couple minor server issues over the weekend. Details in Technical News. We had a couple minor server issues over the weekend. Details in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Update: We are wrapping up a database upgrade and ran out of work to send out. However, we are now finally creating more. Expect heavy traffic on our servers. Eric Korpela and David Anderson were interviewed today by Mike O'Connell of BOINC UK. Many topics were covered, including the question of credit and optimized clients. Download a recording of the conversation (MP3, 13.5 MB) from BOINC UK or a mirror at Berkeley. Update: We are wrapping up a database upgrade and ran out of work to send out. However, we are now finally creating more. Expect heavy traffic on our servers. Eric Korpela and David Anderson were interviewed today by Mike O'Connell of BOINC UK. Many topics were covered, including the question of credit and optimized clients. Download a recording of the conversation (MP3, 13.5 MB) from < a href= " http://www.boincuk.com/david_anderson.mp3 " rel= " nofollow " > BOINC UK < /a > or < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/mp3/boincuk_4_oct_2006.mp3 " rel= " nofollow " > a mirror at Berkeley < /a > . If you're interested in donating time - rather than computing power - to help Astronomical research, check out Clickworkers (from NASA Ames Research Center) and Stardust@home (from UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab). If you're interested in donating time - rather than computing power - to help Astronomical research, check out < a href= " http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/ " rel= " nofollow " > Clickworkers < /a > (from NASA Ames Research Center) and < a href= " http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ " rel= " nofollow " > Stardust@home < /a > (from UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab). Outage update: Though we moved a bulk of the data onto the new science database server over the weekend, there is still plenty to do before we can start using this new server. In the meantime, we may be able to start creating new work to send out later today. Outage update: Though we moved a bulk of the data onto the new science database server over the weekend, there is still plenty to do before we can start using this new server. In the meantime, we may be able to start creating new work to send out later today. We ran out of work to send out due to our science database going down. More details in Technical News. The Planetary Society article on the new multibeam receiver and data recorder is now available as an MP3 file, thanks to the efforts of BOINC UK. The Planetary Society article on the new multibeam receiver and data recorder is now available < a href= " http://www.boincuk.com/seti_multi_beam_receiver.mp3 " rel= " nofollow " > as an MP3 file < /a > , thanks to the efforts of < a href= " http://www.boincuk.com " rel= " nofollow " > BOINC UK < /a > . We ran out of work to send out due to our science database going down. More details in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Check out the screensaver background image submitted by a user (and send us your own). Check out the < a href= " http://ss_graphics.php " rel= " nofollow " > screensaver background image < /a > submitted by a user (and send us your own). GridRepublic, which lets you manage your account on SETI@home and other BOINC projects, recently moved into beta test. It was written up by CNET. < a href= " http://gridrepublic.org " rel= " nofollow " > GridRepublic < /a > , which lets you manage your account on SETI@home and other BOINC projects, recently moved into beta test. It was written up by < a href= " http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6108804.html " rel= " nofollow " > CNET < /a > . Teams may now order SETI@home T-shirts and mugs with their team logo added. Teams may now order < a href= " http://store.setiathome-store.com/teamitems.html " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home T-shirts and mugs with their team logo added < /a > . Read the latest science newsletter from the Planetary Society about our new multi-beam receiver. Read the latest < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20060814.html " rel= " nofollow " > science newsletter < /a > from the < a href= " http://www.planetary.org " rel= " nofollow " > Planetary Society < /a > about our new multi-beam receiver. Read the latest [url=http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20060814.html]science newsletter[/url] from the < a href= " http://www.planetary.org " rel= " nofollow " > Planetary Society < /a > about our new multi-beam receiver. Spread the word about SETI@home - send email to your friends and family. Spread the word about SETI@home - < a href= " http://ffmail_form.php " rel= " nofollow " > send email to your friends and family < /a > . BOINC user survey: due to a bug in our software, answers to the question 'Which are the most important factors when you decide whether to participate in a BOINC project?' were not recorded correctly. Please fill out the survey form again. We apologize for the inconvenience. BOINC user survey: due to a bug in our software, answers to the question 'Which are the most important factors when you decide whether to participate in a BOINC project?' were not recorded correctly. Please < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/poll.php " rel= " nofollow " > fill out the survey form again < /a > . We apologize for the inconvenience. Please fill out the BOINC user survey. Your responses will help us improve SETI@home. Please fill out the < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/poll.php " rel= " nofollow " > BOINC user survey < /a > . Your responses will help us improve SETI@home. We had a power glitch this morning that brought down our science database. The assimilators and splitters are off while we run checks on the tables. We had a power glitch this morning that brought down our science database. The assimilators and splitters are off while we run checks on the tables. Last night we had a lab-wide power outage to diagnose electrical problems in a nearby facility. More detail available in Technical News. Last night we had a lab-wide power outage to diagnose electrical problems in a nearby facility. More detail available in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Last week the new multi-beam data recorder was installed at Arecibo Observatory and has already taken some data. A science newsletter with more details is forthcoming. Last week the new < a href= " http://sah_plans.php " rel= " nofollow " > multi-beam data recorder < /a > was installed at Arecibo Observatory and has already taken some data. A science newsletter with more details is forthcoming. There will be a brief outage today at 17:00 UTC for database maintenance. We estimate the data servers and web pages will be offline for 2 hours, after which the usual "catch up" period will follow. There will be a brief outage today at 17:00 < a href= " http://utc.php " rel= " nofollow " > UTC < /a > for database maintenance. We estimate the data servers and web pages will be offline for 2 hours, after which the usual " catch up " period will follow. The SETI@home store is now open. Buy unique SETI@home items - coffee mugs, T-shirts, caps, space pens and more - all with SETI@home logos and graphics. Part of the proceeds go to support SETI@home. At 13:30 UTC yesterday the SETI@home upload/download server failed. We've solved the problem, so you should be able to upload results and download new work at this time. There will probably be a long period where the servers are overloaded with backlogged requests. Thank you for your patience. The < a href= " http://www.setiathome-store.com " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home store < /a > is now open. Buy unique SETI@home items - coffee mugs, T-shirts, caps, space pens and more - all with SETI@home logos and graphics. Part of the proceeds go to support SETI@home. At 13:30 UTC yesterday the SETI@home upload/download server failed. We've solved the problem, so you should be able to upload results and download new work at this time. There will probably be a long period where the servers are overloaded with backlogged requests. Thank you for your patience. The costs of electricity, both monetary and environmental, are increasing. Be aware of the energy considerations associated with SETI@home and volunteer computing. The costs of electricity, both monetary and environmental, are increasing. Be aware of the < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/energy.php " rel= " nofollow " > energy considerations < /a > associated with SETI@home and volunteer computing. A cascade of problems today caused inability to return results and later, the inability to download new work. One of the data servers lost the ability to see the upload directory. After reboot, it temporarily lost the ability to see the entire network. All of our splitters have been altered to create workunits for SETI@home enhanced. Thanks for your patience during this transition. All of our splitters have been altered to create workunits for SETI@home enhanced. Thanks for your patience during this transition. A cascade of problems today caused inability to return results and later, the inability to download new work. One of the data servers lost the ability to see the upload directory. After reboot, it temporarily lost the ability to see the entire network. An excellent Catalan-language site, www.seti.cat, has recently opened; check it out. An excellent Catalan-language site, < a href= " http://www.seti.cat " rel= " nofollow " > www.seti.cat < /a > , has recently opened; check it out. A scene in the new television film, Mammoth (Sci-Fi Channel), prominently features the SETI@Home screensaver. Access the clip here A scene in the new television film, Mammoth (Sci-Fi Channel), prominently features the SETI@Home screensaver. Access the clip < a href= " http://~courtc/video/mammoth.rm " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > The first SETI@home fundraising drive has drawn to a close. Thanks to your help, we've raised over $250,000 for continued operations, about one-third of our total goal. Because of this we've been able to complete and release our SETI@home Enhanced application. In addition, in June we will be going to Arecibo to install the new Multi-beam data recorder. If you haven't yet donated, please do. The < a href= " http://sah_donate.php " rel= " nofollow " > first SETI@home fundraising drive < /a > has drawn to a close. Thanks to your help, we've raised over $250,000 for continued operations, about one-third of our total goal. Because of this we've been able to complete and release our < a href= " http://sah_plans.php#enhanced " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home Enhanced < /a > application. In addition, in June we will be going to Arecibo to install the new < a href= " http://sah_plans.php#recorder " rel= " nofollow " > Multi-beam data recorder < /a > . If you haven't yet donated, < a href= " http://sah_donate.php " rel= " nofollow " > please do < /a > . We've started distributing work for a new version of SETI@home called SETI@home Enhanced. We've started distributing work for a new version of SETI@home called < a href= " http://sah_enhanced.php " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home Enhanced < /a > . Last evening a problem developed on the scheduler host that caused work distribution to slow and then stop. This has been fixed. However, the number of unsent results is low so work distribution may still be spotty for a while. This will correct itself. Last evening a problem developed on the scheduler host that caused work distribution to slow and then stop. This has been fixed. However, the number of unsent results is low so work distribution may still be spotty for a while. This will correct itself. SETI@Home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer will be giving a free, public talk about SETI and SETI@Home today on the UC Berkeley campus at 1pm. You're invited to join him in Room 120 Latimer Hall on campus. Also, the SETI Lab will be open for visiting and short tours between 11:00am and 3:00pm. That's in Room 325 at the Space Sciences Laboratory behind the University. SETI@Home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer will be giving a free, public talk about SETI and SETI@Home today on the UC Berkeley campus at 1pm. You're invited to join him in Room 120 Latimer Hall on campus. Also, the SETI Lab will be open for visiting and short tours between 11:00am and 3:00pm. That's in Room 325 at the Space Sciences Laboratory behind the University. We're not sure what they're for, but 'kinhull' made a set of SETI@home stamps. Also, Marco Sunder recorded a song Don't you hear us? abo ut elusive aliens. We're not sure what they're for, but 'kinhull' made a set of < a href= " http://setistamps.html " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home stamps < /a > . Also, Marco Sunder recorded a song < a href= " http://www.hvdf.de/lyrics/index.html#dyhu " rel= " nofollow " > Don't you hear us? < /a > about elusive aliens. Our regular Wednesday maintenance outage has been moved to Tuesdays beginning this week. We're doing this to accomodate a number of scheduling conflicts that prevented all of the engineers from being available during the outages. Our regular Wednesday maintenance outage has been moved to Tuesdays beginning this week. We're doing this to accomodate a number of scheduling conflicts that prevented all of the engineers from being available during the outages. We're now over $225,000 so far during our first annual fundraising drive. Thank you for your help so far! Please help us reach our goal by contributing today. We're now over < a href= " http://donation_history.php " rel= " nofollow " > $225,000 so far < /a > during our < a href= " http://sah_donate.php " rel= " nofollow " > first annual fundraising drive < /a > . Thank you for your help so far! Please help us reach < a href= " http://sah_budget.php " rel= " nofollow " > our goal < /a > by < a href= " http://sah_donate.php " rel= " nofollow " > contributing today < /a > . BOINCstats.com is one of several excellent web sites showing the statistics of SETI@home and other BOINC projects. It's available in a number of languages, now including Chinese. < a href= " http://boincstats.com " rel= " nofollow " > BOINCstats.com < /a > is one of several excellent web sites showing the statistics of SETI@home and other BOINC projects. It's available in a number of languages, now including < a href= " http://cn.boincstats.com/ " rel= " nofollow " > Chinese < /a > . Added a link detailing future plans to the about SETI@home page. Added a link detailing < a href= " http://sah_plans.php " rel= " nofollow " > future plans < /a > to the < a href= " http://sah_about.php " rel= " nofollow " > about SETI@home < /a > page. Our master science database has been checked and is OK. We are (as of yesterday evening) sending out new work. Our master science database has been checked and is OK. We are (as of yesterday evening) sending out new work. Our master science database recovered from an unexpected power outage Tuesday morning, but we are still in the process of thoroughly checking the data. More in Technical News. Our master science database recovered from an unexpected power outage Tuesday morning, but we are still in the process of thoroughly checking the data. More in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . BOINCcast is the first German Podcast about BOINC. Weekly episodes of 5 minutes length will explain Distributed Computing and the Goals of BOINC to the German public, and will present and explain the projects that use BOINC. < a href= " http://boinccast.podhost.de/ " rel= " nofollow " > BOINCcast < /a > is the first German Podcast about BOINC. Weekly episodes of 5 minutes length will explain Distributed Computing and the Goals of BOINC to the German public, and will present and explain the projects that use BOINC. BOINC and Climateprediction.net have joined forces with the BBC to launch a new experiment, a full simulation of climate change from 1920 to 2080, described on a BBC television documentary Meltdown (BBC-4, February 20th, for UK BOINCers). SETI @home participants can attach to http://bbc.cpdn.org (be warned that a 160-year climate simulation is a long workunit even by Climateprediction.net's extravagant standards). BOINC and Climateprediction.net have joined forces with the BBC to launch a new experiment, a full simulation of climate change from 1920 to 2080, described on a BBC television documentary < b > Meltdown < /b > (BBC-4, February 20th, for UK BOINCers). SETI@home participants can attach to < a href= " http://bbc.cpdn.org " rel= " nofollow " > http://bbc.cpdn.org < /a > (be warned that a 160-year climate simulation is a long workunit even by Climateprediction.net's extravagant standards). BOINC lets you mix in other scientific computing with SETI@home. For example, check out SIMAP, a new project from the Technical University of Munich. SIMAP calculate similarities between proteins, and supplies the resulting data to many bioinformatics research projects. Or join the SZTAKI Desktop Grid, from the MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in Budapest, Hung ary, which is attempting to find all the generalized binary number systems. BOINC lets you mix in other scientific computing with SETI@home. For example, check out < a href= " http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/ " rel= " nofollow " > SIMAP < /a > , a new project from the Technical University of Munich. SIMAP calculate similarities between proteins, and supplies the resulting data to many bioinformatics research projects. Or join the < a href= " http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ " rel= " nofollow " > SZTAKI Desktop Grid < /a > , from the MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in Budapest, Hungary, which is attempting to find all the generalized binary number systems. We finished our science database merge (consolidating all data from Classic SETI@home and SETI@home/BOINC) and are back online serving workunits. Our servers may be overly busy trying to create/send work for a day or two. More information in Technical News. We finished our science database merge (consolidating all data from Classic SETI@home and SETI@home/BOINC) and are back online serving workunits. Our servers may be overly busy trying to create/send work for a day or two. More information in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . It looks like we may be experiencing local SSL network problems again. If so, this will likely be fixed tomorrow. Today is a university holiday. In the meantime there will be intermittent problems contacting the scheduling server. It looks like we may be experiencing local SSL network problems again. If so, this will likely be fixed tomorrow. Today is a university holiday. In the meantime there will be intermittent problems contacting the scheduling server. SETI@home Classic users: if you've been unable to link your BOINC and Classic accounts (with the error message 'No SETI@home/BOINC account with Classic ID xxxx was found') please try again; we fixed a bug in the script. SETI@home Classic users: if you've been unable to link your BOINC and Classic accounts (with the error message 'No SETI@home/BOINC account with Classic ID xxxx was found') please try again; we fixed a bug in the script. There have been numerous but very brief network drop outs over the past few days affecting all of the Space Sciences Lab. This turned out to be a problem with the SSL firewall and is hopefully fixed at this point. There have been numerous but very brief network drop outs over the past few days affecting all of the Space Sciences Lab. This turned out to be a problem with the SSL firewall and is hopefully fixed at this point. The outage is over, but there will be a long period of time as our servers work hard to catch up. Connectivity will be intermittent as we return to normal. More about it in Technical News. The final SETI@home Classic work totals have been copied to SETI@home/BOINC, and are shown on User Pages. The outage is over, but there will be a long period of time as our servers work hard to catch up. Connectivity will be intermittent as we return to normal. More about it in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . The final SETI@home Classic work totals have been copied to SETI@home/BOINC, and are shown on User Pages. Yesterday we stopped accepting results for SETI@home Classic. The Classic project stats are now frozen. Yesterday we stopped accepting results for SETI@home Classic. The Classic project stats are now frozen. A story about SETI@home's transition to BOINC appears in the Nature web site. After 6 years of operation, SETI@home Classic sent out its last workunit. We will clean up and synchronize the Classic stats with the current SETI@home project in the coming weeks. Thanks to all SETI@home Classic participants for their tremendous dedication t o the project. You made SETI@home into something of lasting significance. Read a brief history of SETI@home. A < a href= " http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/051212-10.html " rel= " nofollow " > story about SETI@home's transition to BOINC < /a > appears in the Nature web site. After 6 years of operation, SETI@home Classic sent out its last workunit. We will clean up and synchronize the Classic stats with the current SETI@home project in the coming weeks. Thanks to all SETI@home Classic participants for their tremendous dedication to the project. You made SETI@home into something of lasting significance. Read < a href= " http://classic.php " rel= " nofollow " > a brief history of SETI@home < /a > . A [url=http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/051212-10.html]story about SETI@home's transition to BOINC[/url] appears in the Nature web site. We are now successfully recovering from a week of server connection problems. Some connections may still break, but most are getting through at this time. We will be extending the deadline for returning results so that the troubles with the result upload handler wil l not result in lost credit. More in Technical News. We are now successfully recovering from a week of server connection problems. Some connections may still break, but most are getting through at this time. We will be extending the deadline for returning results so that the troubles with the result upload handler will not result in lost credit. More in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . You can now attach to SETI@home using your account key, without setting a password first. (This is a server change - no client download needed.) Windows users: if you were having problems attaching to SETI@home, please download new client software (5.2.12) and try again. We have fixed some problems involving personal Internet Firewalls. You can now attach to SETI@home using your account key, without setting a password first. (This is a server change - no client download needed.) Windows users: if you were having problems attaching to SETI@home, please < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php " rel= " nofollow " > download new client software < /a > (5.2.12) and try again. We have fixed some problems involving personal Internet Firewalls. We are getting reports of problems attaching to SETI@home, and are working to resolve them.
We are getting reports of problems attaching to SETI@home, and are working to resolve them. < ul > < li > If you get stuck in the Proxy Info dialog, make sure you're connected to the Internet and that BOINC is not blocked by a personal firewall. More help is < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=22920 " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . < li > If you're not getting email with your account key, make sure your ISP isn't blocking email from SETI@home, and try again. < li > If the BOINC Manager fails to connect, try restarting BOINC (this problem will be fixed in the next BOINC release). < /ul > < p > Please go to the < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_help_desk.php " rel= " nofollow " > Questions and Answers area < /a > for help. We recently had some problems with busy web servers. This is clearing up now. More info in Technical News. We recently had some problems with busy web servers. This is clearing up now. More info in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . The official SETI@home Certificate frame is on sale for $34.95! Get one before they're gone. The official SETI@home < a href= " http://cert_print.php " rel= " nofollow " > Certificate frame < /a > is on sale for $34.95! Get one before they're gone. The old SETI@home Classic project will stop issuing work on December 15, 2005. Anyone still running SETI@home Classic should deactivate it and install SETI@home/BOINC (see instructions under 'Getting started' on this page). The old SETI@home Classic project will stop issuing work on December 15, 2005. Anyone still running SETI@home Classic should deactivate it and install SETI@home/BOINC (see instructions under 'Getting started' on this page). Tomorrow we will start merging the SETI@home classic science database with SETI@home/BOINC. This will take several days, during which some back-end servers will be offline (splitters and assimilators). We stored up a large queue of work - we are hoping this will kee p all BOINC clients occupied during the outage. Progress will be detailed in Technical News. Tomorrow we will start merging the SETI@home classic science database with SETI@home/BOINC. This will take several days, during which some back-end servers will be offline (splitters and assimilators). We stored up a large queue of work - we are hoping this will keep all BOINC clients occupied during the outage. Progress will be detailed in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Give your computer some variety - check out Rosetta@home. This new BOINC-based project aims to solve the ab initio protein structure prediction problem, and to design new chemical catalysts and potential HIV vaccines. Participants who found the lowest energy structures have already been acknowledged in a scientific paper describing the results. Give your computer some variety - check out < a href= " http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ " rel= " nofollow " > Rosetta@home < /a > . This new BOINC-based project aims to solve the ab initio protein structure prediction problem, and to design new chemical catalysts and potential HIV vaccines. Participants who found the lowest energy structures have already been acknowledged in a scientific paper describing the results. Version 5.2 of the BOINC client software has been released. It lets you attach to projects, and log in to their web sites, using email address and password, instead of account key. Users have not chosen a password may do so here. Version 5.2 of the BOINC client software has been released. It lets you attach to projects, and log in to their web sites, using email address and password, instead of account key. Users have not chosen a password may do so < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/edit_passwd_form.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . Our upload/download server is no longer dropping connections. We had the validators off overnight to hasten the recovery. They are now back on. Our upload/download server is no longer dropping connections. We had the validators off overnight to hasten the recovery. They are now back on. Our upload/download server has been dropping connections since yesterday's regular outage. We are not yet sure what the bottleneck is. It may be that our load of old-but-undeleted results and workunits has passed some threshold. We'll be cleaning this up parallel to normal operations. At this point, the connection drop rate is decreasing and should reach zero by the end of the day (PDT). Our upload/download server has been dropping connections since yesterday's regular outage. We are not yet sure what the bottleneck is. It may be that our load of old-but-undeleted results and workunits has passed some threshold. We'll be cleaning this up parallel to normal operations. At this point, the connection drop rate is decreasing and should reach zero by the end of the day (PDT). Rocky Cudd, a long-time SETI@home participant and active community member, passed away recently. We honor him as User of the Day. He'll be remembered. Rocky Cudd, a long-time SETI@home participant and active community member, passed away recently. We honor him as User of the Day. He'll be remembered. SETI pioneer Carl Sagan's groundbreaking series COSMOS is returning to television on The Science Channel. The first two episodes premiere on Tuesday Sept. 27 at 9 and 10 PM (ET/PT), with subsequent episodes airing every Tuesday night at 9 PM. Message board postings and user profiles have been converted from HTML to BBCode. You might need to tweak your profile to make it look right. SETI pioneer Carl Sagan's groundbreaking series < i > < b > COSMOS < /b > < /i > is returning to television on The Science Channel. The first two episodes premiere on Tuesday Sept. 27 at 9 and 10 PM (ET/PT), with subsequent episodes airing every Tuesday night at 9 PM. Message board postings and user profiles have been converted from HTML to BBCode. You might need to tweak your profile to make it look right. Now when you donate to SETI@home, a  will appear next to your user nameon this web site (unless you choose to remain anonymous). Outage Notice: We are still in the middle of an outage to reconfigure our upload/download file systems - the copying of data is taking longer than expected. Uploads and downloads will be unavailable at this time. This should vastly improve our general system p erformance. More information in Technical News. Now when you < a href= " http://sah_donate.php " rel= " nofollow " > donate to SETI@home < /a > , a < a href= " http://sah_donate.php " rel= " nofollow " > < img src= " http://star.gif " > < /a > will appear next to your user name on this web site (unless you choose to remain anonymous). < b > Outage Notice: < /b > We are still in the middle of an outage to reconfigure our upload/download file systems - the copying of data is taking longer than expected. Uploads and downloads will be unavailable at this time. This should vastly improve our general system performance. More information in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . SETI@home Classic will process its two billionth workunit today. Congratulations to everyone for this achievement. SETI@home Classic will process its < a href= " http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/totals.html " rel= " nofollow " > two billionth workunit < /a > today. Congratulations to everyone for this achievement. A number of accounts were accidentally deleted on August 26, causing users to get 'Invalid or missing account key' messages. These accounts have now been restored. We apologize for the inconvenience. A number of accounts were accidentally deleted on August 26, causing users to get 'Invalid or missing account key' messages. These accounts have now been restored. We apologize for the inconvenience. Most of the servers are back up, but still dropping a lot of connections as we recover from a week-long outage. More information in Technical News. Most of the servers are back up, but still dropping a lot of connections as we recover from a week-long outage. More information in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . You can now log in to this web site using your email address and a password of your choice. Set your password here, BOINC is being changed to use email/password instead of account keys (the long random strings ) to identify accounts. This is detailed here. You can now log in to this web site using your email address and a password of your choice. Set your password < a href= " http://edit_passwd_form.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > , BOINC is being changed to use email/password instead of account keys (the long random strings) to identify accounts. This is detailed < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/new_setup.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . Outage Notice. Starting on Monday, August 22, we will be having daily 3 hour outages for a few days. This will allow us to clear the upload directory of old results. The outages will begin at 17:00 UTC. See Technical News . Outage Notice. Starting on Monday, August 22, we will be having daily 3 hour outages for a few days. This will allow us to clear the upload directory of old results. The outages will begin at 17:00 UTC. See < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Outage Notice. We have gotten word that there will be a 2 hour lab wide outage starting August 19 at 01:00. That's just in a few hours. The outage is to repair a faulty router. The web site and the scheduler will be off the air. Outage Notice. We have gotten word that there will be a 2 hour lab wide outage starting August 19 at 01:00. That's just in a few hours. The outage is to repair a faulty router. The web site and the scheduler will be off the air. Outge Notice. We will be having a 1 hour outage tomorrow starting at 17:00 UTC to test the deletion of old result files. See Technical News. Outge Notice. We will be having a 1 hour outage tomorrow starting at 17:00 UTC to test the deletion of old result files. See < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . There is a hardware problem with the building network here at SSL. This is affecting the scheduling and web servers. You may see intermittent connection problems. The SSL network folks are working on a fix. There is a hardware problem with the building network here at SSL. This is affecting the scheduling and web servers. You may see intermittent connection problems. The SSL network folks are working on a fix. We are just now coming out of our regular weekly outage (which took a bit longer than expected). More news eventually be posted in Technical News. Until then, servers may be clogged as the backlog of work clears. We are just now coming out of our regular weekly outage (which took a bit longer than expected). More news eventually be posted in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Until then, servers may be clogged as the backlog of work clears. We are back up after the power outage. Some backend services will remain off until the initial demand dies down. We are back up after the power outage. Some backend services will remain off until the initial demand dies down. Outage notice: We will be having a 14 hour outage, starting this Sunday (August 7) at 02:00 UTC, because of major electrical work being done at the lab. < b > Outage notice < /b > : We will be having a 14 hour outage, starting this Sunday (August 7) at 02:00 UTC, because of major electrical work being done at the lab. We recently made a DNS switch affecting the scheduler. This and more can be read about in detail in Technical News. We recently made a DNS switch affecting the scheduler. This and more can be read about in detail in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . We are looking for ways to boost workunit production See Technical News. At the current time the system having difficulty meeting demand a number of clients are getting No Work from Project messages. We are looking for ways to boost workunit production See < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . At the current time the system having difficulty meeting demand a number of clients are getting No Work from Project messages. We now have the new data server online. It has 3x the capacity of the old one. Details will be appearing in Technical News. This should help clear the backlog of result uploads. We are still trying to figure out if there is a software reason for the connection drops that are causing the upload and download failures. We are also working on a hardware solution in the form of a more powerful data server machine. There are several steps to g etting a new machine online but, barring any show stoppers, we hope to have it online in the next day or so. We now have the new data server online. It has 3x the capacity of the old one. Details will be appearing in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . This should help clear the backlog of result uploads. We are still trying to figure out if there is a software reason for the connection drops that are causing the upload and download failures. We are also working on a hardware solution in the form of a more powerful data server machine. There are several steps to getting a new machine online but, barring any show stoppers, we hope to have it online in the next day or so. The data server is continuing to drop connections, which is very unusual this long after an outage. We are working to figure out why. The data server is continuing to drop connections, which is very unusual this long after an outage. We are working to figure out why. We safely restarted the project after an all-night (planned) power outage. It will take significant time for the servers to catch up. More info in Technical News. We safely restarted the project after an all-night (planned) power outage. It will take significant time for the servers to catch up. More info in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Read the new Planetary Society newsletter: Analyzing Signals in Real Time. Read the new Planetary Society newsletter: < a href= " http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_070705.html " rel= " nofollow " > Analyzing Signals in Real Time < /a > . Read the new Planetary Society newsletter: [url=http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_070705.html]Analyzing Signals in Real Time[/url]. We had a four-hour outage this morning for database backup and UPS maintenance (one hour longer than expected). We had a four-hour outage this morning for database backup and UPS maintenance (one hour longer than expected). The file upload handler crashed last night, but is back up and running now. The file upload handler crashed last night, but is back up and running now. BOINC statistics sites continue to evolve. Check out Every Earthly Hour, developed by Hydnum Repandum BOINC statistics sites continue to evolve. Check out < a href= " http://home.btconnect.com/Gabys_Bazar/hwupgrade.html " rel= " nofollow " > Every Earthly Hour < /a > , developed by Hydnum Repandum Update: Today's outage is postponed with the date TBD. Update: Today's outage is postponed with the date TBD. We have released the SETI@home application version 4.18 for windows and Mac OS X. Graphics are now available for Mac OS X. The Windows release fixes an ATI graphics bug. Outage Notice. We will be having an outage tomorrow for UPS maintenance. This will start at 17:00 UTC and should not last more than an hour. We have released the SETI@home application version 4.18 for windows and Mac OS X. Graphics are now available for Mac OS X. The Windows release fixes an ATI graphics bug. Outage Notice. We will be having an outage tomorrow for UPS maintenance. This will start at 17:00 UTC and should not last more than an hour. Outage Notice. We will be having an outage tomorrow in order to back up the database. The outage will start at 17:00 UTC and last two to three hours. Outage Notice. We will be having an outage tomorrow in order to back up the database. The outage will start at 17:00 UTC and last two to three hours. Outage Notice. We will be having an outage tomorrow in order to add an index to the result table in the seti/boinc database. This index will be used to better track client errors. The outage will begin at 17:30 UTC and may last up to 2 hours. Outage Notice. We will be having an outage tomorrow in order to add an index to the result table in the seti/boinc database. This index will be used to better track client errors. The outage will begin at 17:30 UTC and may last up to 2 hours. We are switching the http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ URL to point here. The SETI@home Classic web site has been moved to http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu. We are switching the http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ URL to point here. The SETI@home Classic web site has been moved to < a href= " http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu " rel= " nofollow " > http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu < /a > . The science database has been successfully relocated. The splitters and assimilator are back online. The science database has been successfully relocated. The splitters and assimilator are back online. The splitters and assimilator are offline for a day or so while we relocate the backend science database. The splitters and assimilator are offline for a day or so while we relocate the backend science database. The DB reinit went fine. But then we had a problem with a recently installed software firewall. It was working when we left the lab yesterday but cut off the data service interface a short time later. We have switched off this firewall for now. Software firewalls are now required for all machines by campus policy but we will get an exception until ours is working. Note that we are, and always have been, behind a hardware firewall that works great. Given the length of this outage, service will be slow with lots of connection drops un til the backlog is cleared. The DB reinit went fine. But then we had a problem with a recently installed software firewall. It was working when we left the lab yesterday but cut off the data service interface a short time later. We have switched off this firewall for now. Software firewalls are now required for all machines by campus policy but we will get an exception until ours is working. Note that we are, and always have been, behind a hardware firewall that works great. Given the length of this outage, service will be slow with lots of connection drops until the backlog is cleared. We will be having a general outage tomorrow to do a database backup and to reinitialize our replica database server. The replica became corrupt last week due to a disk space issue. After this is done, we should not have to have outages for backups. We will start at 17:0 0 UTC. The outage will last several hours. We will be having a general outage tomorrow to do a database backup and to reinitialize our replica database server. The replica became corrupt last week due to a disk space issue. After this is done, we should not have to have outages for backups. We will start at 17:00 UTC. The outage will last several hours. In memoriam: Philip Morrison. Professor Morrison pioneered the concept of interstellar communication in 1959, creating the field of SETI. Phil will be deeply missed by the Berkeley SETI team. In memoriam: < a href= " http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/morrison.html " rel= " nofollow " > Philip Morrison < /a > . Professor Morrison pioneered the concept of interstellar communication in 1959, creating the field of SETI. Phil will be deeply missed by the Berkeley SETI team. There is an excellent document about the European connectivity issue along with work around proxy information here. Appreciation goes to setiathomer tigher for putting together this page and to many others on the messages boards for contributing information. There is an excellent document about the European connectivity issue along with work around proxy information < a href= " http://www.iantighe.com/boincers.htm " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . Appreciation goes to setiathomer tigher for putting together this page and to many others on the messages boards for contributing information. We have confirmed that there is a known network peering issue between Cogent (our ISP) and OpenTransit (France Telcom) that is affecting connectivity for many participants in Europe. Campus has opened a trouble ticket with Cogent but we are unsure that this will result in a fix. We will post news items as we learn more. Many thanks go to the posters in this message board thread for their diagnostics and work arounds. We have confirmed that there is a known network peering issue between Cogent (our ISP) and OpenTransit (France Telcom) that is affecting connectivity for many participants in Europe. Campus has opened a trouble ticket with Cogent but we are unsure that this will result in a fix. We will post news items as we learn more. Many thanks go to the posters in < a href= " http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13867 " rel= " nofollow " > this message board thread < /a > for their diagnostics and work arounds. There are reports of a connectivity problem between some parts of Europe and our Cogent facing server. We are making inquires. For discussion of the problem and a suggested workaround using proxies, see this message board thread. There are reports of a connectivity problem between some parts of Europe and our Cogent facing server. We are making inquires. For discussion of the problem and a suggested workaround using proxies, see < a href= " http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13867 " rel= " nofollow " > this message board thread < /a > . Volunteers have ported SETI@home and BOINC to a variety of platforms, including Solaris/x86-64, Linux/x86-64, Linux/PPC, HP-UX, and FreeBSD. Volunteers have ported SETI@home and BOINC to < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php " rel= " nofollow " > a variety of platforms < /a > , including Solaris/x86-64, Linux/x86-64, Linux/PPC, HP-UX, and FreeBSD. You can now select a language for this site without changing your browser's language preference. You can now < a href= " http://language_select.php " rel= " nofollow " > select a language for this site < /a > without changing your browser's language preference. We have temporarily taken down 4.10; it did not solve the graphics problem. We have temporarily taken down 4.10; it did not solve the graphics problem. We have released version 4.10 of the SETI@home application for Windows. This release fixes a bug that caused graphics not to display. We have released version 4.10 of the SETI@home application for Windows. This release fixes a bug that caused graphics not to display. Now you can print a SETI@home Certificate of Computation that shows your Classic work, BOINC work, or both. While you're at it, support SETI@home and buy an Official SETI@home Certific ate Frame. Now you can print a < a href= " http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/cert_print.php " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home Certificate of Computation < /a > that shows your Classic work, BOINC work, or both. While you're at it, support SETI@home and buy an < b > Official SETI@home Certificate Frame < /b > . SETI@home Classic participants: you can now activate your SETI@home/BOINC account (with your Classic work totals) even if the email address of your Classic account is no longer valid. SETI@home Classic participants: you can now < a href= " http://sah_email_form.php " rel= " nofollow " > activate your SETI@home/BOINC account < /a > (with your Classic work totals) even if the email address of your Classic account is no longer valid. We're now fully back on-line. More information about recent outages can be found in Technical News. We're now fully back on-line. More information about recent outages can be found in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Our Internet link through Cogent went down at around midnight UTC on March 18/19. It was repaired this evening, and the servers may be bogged down as they try to make up for lost time. We'll post more information once we're told what happened. Please note that we sti ll plan to have an outage tomorrow morning (see message below). Our Internet link through Cogent went down at around midnight UTC on March 18/19. It was repaired this evening, and the servers may be bogged down as they try to make up for lost time. We'll post more information once we're told what happened. Please note that we still plan to have an outage tomorrow morning (see message below). The project will be down for 4 hours this coming Tuesday, March 22, starting at 14:00 UTC. Our building will be without power as campus tries to find the reason for the power losses we experienced a couple of weeks ago. The project will be down for 4 hours this coming Tuesday, March 22, starting at 14:00 UTC. Our building will be without power as campus tries to find the reason for the power losses we experienced a couple of weeks ago. We have cleaned up our account database, merging accounts with conflicting email addresses. This may cause some users to get 'Invalid or missing account key' messages. This is easy to fix; instructions are here. In preparation for shutting down SETI@home Classic (in about 1 month, hopefully) we're trying to make sure that SETI@home Classic accounts are linked to the proper SETI@home/BOINC account. This is a bit complicated because of email address changes. See our cu rrent transition plan. We have cleaned up our account database, merging accounts with conflicting email addresses. This may cause some users to get 'Invalid or missing account key' messages. This is easy to fix; instructions are < a href= " http://account_fix.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . In preparation for shutting down SETI@home Classic (in about 1 month, hopefully) we're trying to make sure that SETI@home Classic accounts are linked to the proper SETI@home/BOINC account. This is a bit complicated because of email address changes. See our current < a href= " http://transition.php " rel= " nofollow " > transition plan < /a > . We have updated the SETI@home/BOINC database with current information from SETI@home Classic. We have updated the SETI@home/BOINC database with current information from SETI@home Classic. Official SETI@home Certificate frames are now available! Official < a href= " http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/cert_print.php " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home Certificate frames < /a > are now available! Star Trek is going off the air! Read here how Star Trek Helped Launch SETI@home. Star Trek is going off the air! < a href= " http://planetary.org/star_trek/enterprise_022405.html " rel= " nofollow " > Read here how Star Trek Helped Launch SETI@home < /a > . Star Trek is going off the air! [url=http://planetary.org/star_trek/enterprise_022405.html]Read here how Star Trek Helped Launch SETI@home[/url]. All services are up and graceful shutdown in case of a power outage is in place. All services are up and graceful shutdown in case of a power outage is in place. Around 18:00 UTC we had another unexpected lab-wide power outage. The cause of these random failures is being investigated by campus, but all our systems/databases survived without any corruption. We will be down as we work to further protect ourselves. More info and updates in Technical News. Around 18:00 UTC we had another unexpected lab-wide power outage. The cause of these random failures is being investigated by campus, but all our systems/databases survived without any corruption. We will be down as we work to further protect ourselves. More info and updates in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . The database has been restored and all services are back up. The data server is very busy right now. There will be upload and download problems until the load normalizes. More info in Technical News. The database has been restored and all services are back up. The data server is very busy right now. There will be upload and download problems until the load normalizes. More info in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . Update: a breaker blew and the power for the entire lab was off for several hours. Power returned at 23:30 UTC, but we will be dealing with fallout for a while - the project will probably be down all night and through tomorrow morning. More info in Technical News. Update: a breaker blew and the power for the entire lab was off for several hours. Power returned at 23:30 UTC, but we will be dealing with fallout for a while - the project will probably be down all night and through tomorrow morning. More info in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . We are looking for volunteers to translate the SETI@home web site into non-English languages. If you're interested, learn more. We are looking for volunteers to translate the SETI@home web site into non-English languages. If you're interested, < a href= " http://sah_translate.php " rel= " nofollow " > learn more < /a > . For data server updates, see Technical News. For data server updates, see < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . We are still dealing with a data server storage problem. The project will be going up and down as we work on this. See Technical News. The Einstein@home project was officially launched this morning. We encourage SETI@home users to also participate in this project, which searches for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data fro m the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. We are still dealing with a data server storage problem. The project will be going up and down as we work on this. See < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . The < a href= " http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ " rel= " nofollow " > Einstein@home < /a > project was officially launched this morning. We encourage SETI@home users to also participate in this project, which searches for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Update. Yet another data server array hang. The vendor is looking into it. The project has been up for several hours although the data server is a bit overwhelmed with pent up demand. We are adding services back one at a time while we monitor the data server st orage array. Update. Yet another data server array hang. The vendor is looking into it. The project has been up for several hours although the data server is a bit overwhelmed with pent up demand. We are adding services back one at a time while we monitor the data server storage array. Update. Once the RAID rebuilds we are going to run a job to delete old workunits and results from the array. These would normally be deleted by the file deleter but the latter is still backed up from before the database migration. The project will remain off through all o f this. The data server failed around 20:30 UTC for the third time in as many days. The project will be down as we continue to diagnose the problem. Update. Once the RAID rebuilds we are going to run a job to delete old workunits and results from the array. These would normally be deleted by the file deleter but the latter is still backed up from before the database migration. The project will remain off through all of this. The data server failed around 20:30 UTC for the third time in as many days. The project will be down as we continue to diagnose the problem. The RAID resync is complete and the project is up, although the data server is a bit overwhelmed at the moment. In positive news, the new database server is running great (today's malfunction was not on that machine). The RAID resync is complete and the project is up, although the data server is a bit overwhelmed at the moment. In positive news, the new database server is running great (today's malfunction was not on that machine). We have moved the primary database service over to the the new system. See Technical News. We have moved the primary database service over to the the new system. See < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . The initial migration of the database to the new server is complete. Tomorrow we will make this new server a database replica. If all goes well it will become the database primary in a few days. The initial migration of the database to the new server is complete. Tomorrow we will make this new server a database replica. If all goes well it will become the database primary in a few days. We will restart the database migration to the new hardware Monday, February 7, at 18:00 UT. The outage will be several hours long. Currently, workunit production is falling behind demand. The splitters themselves are able to keep up but are not able to insert work fast enough because of competition for database access. We will restart the database migration to the new hardware Monday, February 7, at 18:00 UT. The outage will be several hours long. Currently, workunit production is falling behind demand. The splitters themselves are able to keep up but are not able to insert work fast enough because of competition for database access. The project was offline most of the day today due to a database problem. The project was offline most of the day today due to a < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > database problem < /a > . We have created a new SETI@home bookstore in partnership with Alibris.com. Find great books, read about science (fact and fiction), and benefit SETI@home! We have created a new < a href= " http://books.php " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home bookstore < /a > in partnership with Alibris.com. Find great books, read about science (fact and fiction), and benefit SETI@home! The DB migration stopped when the new server crashed. See Technical News. The DB migration stopped when the new server crashed. See < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . We will begin the migration to the new hardware at 19:00 UT tomorrow, 1/31. The project will be down for several hours. We will begin the migration to the new hardware at 19:00 UT tomorrow, 1/31. The project will be down for several hours. We have turned on db_purge in preparation for the DB migration to the new hardware. This will reduce the size of the DB and so the migration will go faster. The validator will probably fall even more behind in the meantime. The migration will occur early ne xt week. We will post the time once we have pinned it down We have turned on db_purge in preparation for the DB migration to the new hardware. This will reduce the size of the DB and so the migration will go faster. The validator will probably fall even more behind in the meantime. The migration will occur early next week. We will post the time once we have pinned it down Due to recent database problems, we had to turn off XML stats generation for the time being. Due to recent database problems, we had to turn off XML stats generation for the time being. We're looking for a Certificate of Appreciation design based on the new SETI@home logo. If you know PHP and do graphic design, maybe you can help. We're looking for a Certificate of Appreciation design based on the new SETI@home logo. If you know PHP and do graphic design, < a href= " http://misc.php " rel= " nofollow " > maybe you can help < /a > . The validation backlog is slowly clearing. There appears to be no problem with validation other than the slowness the backlog itself is causing. The validation backlog is slowly clearing. There appears to be no problem with validation other than the slowness the backlog itself is causing. We are still running a backlog of results waiting to be validated and are looking into it. We are still running a backlog of results waiting to be validated and are looking into it. The waiting for validation/transition counts on the server status page are disabled until we diagnose a recent DB slowdown. The waiting for validation/transition counts on the < a href= " http://sah_status.html " rel= " nofollow " > server status < /a > page are disabled until we diagnose a recent DB slowdown. We have decided to send out 4 copies of each workunit and use a quorum size of 3 for validation. Validation should be quick because a single result in error will not delay reaching a quorum. We have decided to send out 4 copies of each workunit and use a quorum size of 3 for validation. Validation should be quick because a single result in error will not delay reaching a quorum. We are experimenting with redundancy parameters. We will continue to send 3 copies of each workunit, but will validate results and grant credit when 2 (rather than 3) of them are returned. This should result in faster validation. We have started removing database records for results that were completed more than 7 days ago. This will limit the size of the workunit and result tables in our database. Happy holidays! We are experimenting with redundancy parameters. We will continue to send 3 copies of each workunit, but will validate results and grant credit when 2 (rather than 3) of them are returned. This should result in faster validation. We have started removing database records for results that were completed more than 7 days ago. This will limit the size of the workunit and result tables in our database. Happy holidays! The project will be down for roughly the next 24 hours while make some changes to the database structure. [ Good news - changes are all done, and it only took 2 hours ]. The project will be down for roughly the next 24 hours while make some changes to the database structure. [ Good news - changes are all done, and it only took 2 hours ]. Versions of BOINC and SETI@home for Solaris/x86 are available, courtesy of Jochen van Waasen. Versions of BOINC and SETI@home for Solaris/x86 are < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php " rel= " nofollow " > available < /a > , courtesy of Jochen van Waasen. Windows application version 4.08 is released. It should fix the graphics preferences problem. Windows application version 4.08 is released. It should fix the graphics preferences problem. We had an unexpected 3 hour outage this morning. More info in Technical News. We had an unexpected 3 hour outage this morning. More info in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . SETI@home application version 4.07 is released. This build should increase speed over the previous version. SETI@home application version 4.07 is released. This build should increase speed over the previous version. The disk array holding the upload/download directories crashed last night. Until we are able to reboot and resync the drives, the scheduler will be off (i.e. your clients won't be able to connect to our servers). More details in Technical News. The disk array has resynced and the scheduler is back on. The disk array holding the upload/download directories crashed last night. Until we are able to reboot and resync the drives, the scheduler will be off (i.e. your clients won't be able to connect to our servers). More details in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . The disk array has resynced and the scheduler is back on. There was a two hour outage this morning for hardware upgrades. Read more about it in Technical News. There was a two hour outage this morning for hardware upgrades. Read more about it in < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > . SETI@home and BOINC are featured on Catalan TV news. See the Movie (RealVideo) or the English transcript. SETI@home and BOINC are featured on Catalan TV news. See the < a href= " http://www.ieec.fcr.es/setiathome/suggeriments.html " rel= " nofollow " > Movie < /a > (RealVideo) or the < a href= " http://SETItv3_english.html " rel= " nofollow " > English transcript < /a > . Each team now has a Create team account URL. Accounts created through this URL will belong to the team, and will have the project preferences of its founder. Team founders: put this URL on your team's web page. Each team now has a < a href= " http://clone.php " rel= " nofollow " > Create team account URL < /a > . Accounts created through this URL will belong to the team, and will have the project preferences of its founder. Team founders: put this URL on your team's web page. The web server was offline for a brief time (around 19:00 PST) when its disk filled up. Files were cleaned up, old logs removed, and everything is back to normal. The web server was offline for a brief time (around 19:00 PST) when its disk filled up. Files were cleaned up, old logs removed, and everything is back to normal. For the first time in a very long time the validator has caught up on the large backlog of results waiting for credit. Of course, many results still have pending credit until similar results are returned by other users (and therefore cannot be validated yet). For the first time in a very long time the validator has caught up on the large backlog of results waiting for credit. Of course, many results still have pending credit until similar results are returned by other users (and therefore cannot be validated yet). Version 4.13 of the core client is now available. Version 4.12, which contained various bug fixes, including one pertaining to file upload problems, was released two days ago. Version 4.13 contains an additional bug fix involving a rare case where user permissions we ren't being understood correctly by the client. Version 4.13 of the core client is now available. Version 4.12, which contained various bug fixes, including one pertaining to file upload problems, was released two days ago. Version 4.13 contains an additional bug fix involving a rare case where user permissions weren't being understood correctly by the client. We added more data and informative text to our Server Status page. We added more data and informative text to our < a href= " http://sah_status.html " rel= " nofollow " > Server Status < /a > page. We just had (about 21:00 UTC) an unexpected outage due to a disk crash. Everything is back up now. Read more technical details about our project in the new Technical News section. This morning's outage lasted a bit longer than expected, but we are now back up and running again. The outage was for reconfiguration of the new replica database. We just had (about 21:00 UTC) an unexpected outage due to a disk crash. Everything is back up now. Read more technical details about our project in the new < a href= " http://tech_news.php " rel= " nofollow " > Technical News < /a > section. This morning's outage lasted a bit longer than expected, but we are now back up and running again. The outage was for reconfiguration of the new replica database. A problem with file uploads has existed for the last few days. This problem causes file uploads to fail. We now understand the problem and are working on a fix - it will probably require upgrading your BOINC client. Please stay tuned. We added some new message-board features. A problem with file uploads has existed for the last few days. This problem causes file uploads to fail. We now understand the problem and are working on a fix - it will probably require upgrading your BOINC client. Please stay tuned. We added some < a href= " http://forum_update.txt " rel= " nofollow " > new message-board features < /a > . This morning a hardware failure caused one of our storage arrays to require resetting. Downloads will be temporarily halted until the drives have completed re-synchronizing. This should be complete in the early evening hours (Pacific Time). This morning a hardware failure caused one of our storage arrays to require resetting. Downloads will be temporarily halted until the drives have completed re-synchronizing. This should be complete in the early evening hours (Pacific Time). The disk array holding the upload and download directories failed yesterday and needed to be rebooted and resync'ed. The project has been mostly down since last night, but as of now it is back up and running. There's been a problem with file uploading for the last few days. We think it is fixed now. Our apologies if you lost work because of this. The disk array holding the upload and download directories failed yesterday and needed to be rebooted and resync'ed. The project has been mostly down since last night, but as of now it is back up and running. There's been a problem with file uploading for the last few days. We think it is fixed now. Our apologies if you lost work because of this. UPDATED: We successfully swapped our database hardware, giving the master database access to much faster disks. Within a couple hours weeks-old queues drained completely. We're not completley done with the swap, but all parts of the BOINC system are back up and running full blast. UPDATED: We successfully swapped our database hardware, giving the master database access to much faster disks. Within a couple hours weeks-old queues drained completely. We're not completley done with the swap, but all parts of the BOINC system are back up and running full blast. UPDATED: A new version (4.05) of the windows SETI@home client is available (and will be automatically picked up by your core clients next time you contact our servers). Changes include: the "heads up" mode now works and the progress bar advances in a more linear fashion. Earlier today we released a similar version 4.04 which gave users UPDATED: A new version (4.05) of the windows SETI@home client is available (and will be automatically picked up by your core clients next time you contact our servers). Changes include: the " heads up " mode now works and the progress bar advances in a more linear fashion. < p > Earlier today we released a similar version 4.04 which gave users checksum errors and failed to run. This has been fixed in 4.05. Learn how to customize SETI@home graphics. Learn how to < a href= " http://sah_graphics.php " rel= " nofollow " > customize SETI@home graphics < /a > . A software error on our scheduling server made it impossible for any schedulers to start. Clients were unable to connect since yesterday afternoon. We tracked down the bug this morning and fixed it. You should be able to connect to the schedulers now, though there ma y be heavy traffic for a while (as the backlog clears up) preventing you from getting through right away. A software error on our scheduling server made it impossible for any schedulers to start. Clients were unable to connect since yesterday afternoon. We tracked down the bug this morning and fixed it. You should be able to connect to the schedulers now, though there may be heavy traffic for a while (as the backlog clears up) preventing you from getting through right away. The upload directory move completed this morning and we turned the file deleter and validator back on. The upload directory move completed this morning and we turned the file deleter and validator back on. We have relocated the upload directory to off load demand from the DB server. We are currently moving all of the old upload files (results) to the new location. Until the move is complete the file deleter, validator and assimilator need to be off. We have relocated the upload directory to off load demand from the DB server. We are currently moving all of the old upload files (results) to the new location. Until the move is complete the file deleter, validator and assimilator need to be off. The scheduler is back on. We are still investigating the transitioner lag. The scheduler is back on. We are still investigating the transitioner lag. Both the transitioner and the validator have fallen behind. We are determining whether this situation is because of a software or hardware bottleneck. In the meantime we need to allow these programs to catch up so the scheduler is off over night. We are in the process of obtaining faster hardware for DB server. Both the transitioner and the validator have fallen behind. We are determining whether this situation is because of a software or hardware bottleneck. In the meantime we need to allow these programs to catch up so the scheduler is off over night. We are in the process of obtaining faster hardware for DB server. The upload of user-profile images has been broken since July 22; it's fixed now. The upload of user-profile images has been broken since July 22; it's fixed now. Early this morning campus got a call from SANS that the seti@home classic web site 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. Early this morning campus got a call from SANS that the seti@home classic web site 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. We have released a new version of the core client for all platforms, this should fix the various issues with the Win9x platform. NOTE: If you are using a Win9x machine, please upgrade to this release as soon as possible. We have released a new version of the core client for all platforms, this should fix the various issues with the Win9x platform. < b > NOTE: < /b > If you are using a Win9x machine, please upgrade to this release as soon as possible. SETI@home is open source, so you can port it to new platforms or optimize it for specific architectures. We have set up an mailing list, boinc_opt@ssl.berkeley.edu, for people interested in this. Details are here. We have added a web page showing server status. The permanent link is under Participate in SETI@home. SETI@home is open source, so you can port it to new platforms or optimize it for specific architectures. We have set up an mailing list, boinc_opt@ssl.berkeley.edu, for people interested in this. Details are < a href= " http://sah_porting.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . We have added < a href= " http://sah_status.html " rel= " nofollow " > a web page showing server status < /a > . The permanent link is under < a href= " http://sah_participate.php " rel= " nofollow " > Participate in SETI@home < /a > . Sometime last night the scheduling server (which handles all workunit/result transfers) crashed. We're looking into what exactly happened, but in the meantime it has been restarted and data is being sent/returned normally. Sometime last night the scheduling server (which handles all workunit/result transfers) crashed. We're looking into what exactly happened, but in the meantime it has been restarted and data is being sent/returned normally. We have added a number of new features to the message boards. Details are here. Thanks to Janus Kristensen for contributing this. The validator fix (see September 8, 2004) and an associated transitioner fix have been implemented, tested, and placed online. Credits are flowing. The validator fix (see September 8, 2004) and an associated transitioner fix have been implemented, tested, and placed online. Credits are flowing. We have added a number of new features to the message boards. Details are < a href= " http://forum_changes.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . Thanks to Janus Kristensen for contributing this. Stats are now available on your cell phone. See 'Your Account' for the URL. This feature was developed by Carl Christensen of CPDN. Stats are now available on your cell phone. See 'Your Account' for the URL. This feature was developed by Carl Christensen of CPDN. Yesterday we discovered that when result files are lost, say due to a restore from a backup (restores involve both the DB and the ULDL directories) the validator ends up in a endless loop. The entire result set for an affected workunit gets ignored and after a while the val idator ends up enumerating only affected workunits and is thus in a loop. We turned off the validator when we discovered this. Today we have coded a fix and are testing it in the alpha project. While the validator is off credits are not given but they should show u p once we turn the validator back on.
Yesterday we discovered that when result files are lost, say due to a restore from a backup (restores involve both the DB and the ULDL directories) the validator ends up in a endless loop. The entire result set for an affected workunit gets ignored and after a while the validator ends up enumerating only affected workunits and is thus in a loop. We turned off the validator when we discovered this. Today we have coded a fix and are testing it in the alpha project. While the validator is off credits are not given but they should show up once we turn the validator back on. < p > The snap server continues to run well. We came up this morning and had to tune the data server to keep connection drops from happening. The download/md5 errors should no longer be occurring. We came up this morning and had to tune the data server to keep connection drops from happening. The download/md5 errors should no longer be occurring. Because of the holiday weekend and family commitments we are a bit short handed and short on time. So the uldl move is taking us longer than expected. Because of the holiday weekend and family commitments we are a bit short handed and short on time. So the uldl move is taking us longer than expected. Some technical folks from Snap Appliance are on their way to SSL to provide on site support. They will likely swap out the CPUs. The SnapApp folks were here for most of the afternoon. They replaced the processors with ones that are faster and have larger caches. More importantly, we talked about how to stabilize the system. The plan is to simplify both the HW and service mix as much as possible in the hopes of removing the variable that is causing the hangs (and of course they will be going for the root cause at their lab). We altered the startup so that a bare minimal set of services are running. And we are going to only use the 18000 head unit for now, kee ping no data on the sd30 expansion. This means moving some data around. We first have to move the upload/download data to a temporary volume on the sd30, then reconfigure the space on the 18000 head, then move the uldl to the head. The move to the temp volume is ha ppening now. Tomorrow morning we will do the reconfiguration and start final move. With luck we will have the project up by EOD tomorrow. The SnapApp folks were here for most of the afternoon. They replaced the processors with ones that are faster and have larger caches. More importantly, we talked about how to stabilize the system. The plan is to simplify both the HW and service mix as much as possible in the hopes of removing the variable that is causing the hangs (and of course they will be going for the root cause at their lab). We altered the startup so that a bare minimal set of services are running. And we are going to only use the 18000 head unit for now, keeping no data on the sd30 expansion. This means moving some data around. We first have to move the upload/download data to a temporary volume on the sd30, then reconfigure the space on the 18000 head, then move the uldl to the head. The move to the temp volume is happening now. Tomorrow morning we will do the reconfiguration and start final move. With luck we will have the project up by EOD tomorrow. Some technical folks from Snap Appliance are on their way to SSL to provide on site support. They will likely swap out the CPUs. We have completed the SnapApp work around. We had a bit of a scare with a volume mounting issue but once again Snap App gave us great support and all seems fine at this point. The Snap App hung again. We will be down for the night. We have completed the SnapApp work around. We had a bit of a scare with a volume mounting issue but once again Snap App gave us great support and all seems fine at this point. The Snap App hung again. We will be down for the night. We will be having a short (less than 1 hour) data server outage tomorrow at 16:30 UTC. We will be implementing the Snap Applicance work around on the 18000. We will be having a short (less than 1 hour) data server outage tomorrow at 16:30 UTC. We will be implementing the Snap Applicance work around on the 18000. Our storage array hung again (the SnapApp work around is not yet implemented). It has not yet responded to a reboot command. Data service may well be off until we can hard reset it tomorrow morning. We are investigating the Win98 hang/crashing issues in this Thread Please check it out for any updates. NOTE: This bug puts your machine in a state that causes you to rese t your machine in order to be able to use it, this in turn can cause disk corruption. We recommend that you hold off executing BOINC on Win98 and WinME until this issue is resolved. 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 wh en SETI@home has no work available. Starting with version 4, BOINC does 'time-slicing' to divide CPU time between projects. Learn more here. We are back up after restarting the Snap Appliance and making sure everything is OK. We had a long conference call with the engineers at Snap this morning they have come up with a work around as well as a potential fix that should end the system hangs. Thanks go to the Snap App folks for working very hard on this problem. During all of this some web site files were lost and these are being Our storage array hung again (the SnapApp work around is not yet implemented). It has not yet responded to a reboot command. Data service may well be off until we can hard reset it tomorrow morning. We are investigating the Win98 hang/crashing issues in this < a href= " http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=3376 " rel= " nofollow " > Thread < /a > Please check it out for any updates. < b > NOTE: < /b > This bug puts your machine in a state that causes you to reset your machine in order to be able to use it, this in turn can cause disk corruption. We recommend that you hold off executing BOINC on Win98 and WinME until this issue is resolved. < a href= " http://climateprediction.net " rel= " nofollow " > Climateprediction.net < /a > , 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. Starting with version 4, BOINC does 'time-slicing' to divide CPU time between projects. Learn more < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cpu_sched.php " rel= " nofollow " > here < /a > . We are back up after restarting the Snap Appliance and making sure everything is OK. We had a long conference call with the engineers at Snap this morning they have come up with a work around as well as a potential fix that should end the system hangs. Thanks go to the Snap App folks for working very hard on this problem. < p > During all of this some web site files were lost and these are being restored now. After fixing a few inevitable gotchas, we are back up with the major version upgrade to 4.x. The servers may be slow in responding as all clients will be getting a new supply of work. Everyone will need to download a new core client. A fix to scheduler code to get around a possible memory leak was causing it to bomb after a number of connections. We have backed out this change for now and the scheduler seems to be working OK at this point. After fixing a few inevitable gotchas, we are back up with the major version upgrade to 4.x. The servers may be slow in responding as all clients will be getting a new supply of work. Everyone will need to download a new core client. A fix to scheduler code to get around a possible memory leak was causing it to bomb after a number of connections. We have backed out this change for now and the scheduler seems to be working OK at this point. The migration plan has been rescheduled for tomorrow the 29th at 10am PDT. We have brought down the scheduler and file upload handler until the migration happens to give the splitters and transitioners time to produce enough workunits and results to send out after the migr ation when the clients reset themselves. The migration plan has been rescheduled for tomorrow the 29th at 10am PDT. We have brought down the scheduler and file upload handler until the migration happens to give the splitters and transitioners time to produce enough workunits and results to send out after the migration when the clients reset themselves. We are currently experiencing a hardware issue with our scheduling server, we expect this issue to be resolved within the hour. The upgrade to 4.x will start around 11am PDT and will take roughly an hour. Anybody who has any remaining results to report should get them in before the upgrade. After the upgrade you'll need the 4.x clients to report new results, and upgrading to the 4.x client will reset the project on your machine. Roughly 100,000 results are queued up and ready to be sent out after the upgrade, plus the three splitters will be up and running producing work as quickly as possible. The last set of hardware issues have been resolved. Due to the time of day and other factors the upgrade will be delayed until at least tomorrow morning. We'll post the revised schedule as soon as plans have been firmed up. We are currently experiencing a hardware issue with our scheduling server, we expect this issue to be resolved within the hour. The upgrade to 4.x will start around 11am PDT and will take roughly an hour. Anybody who has any remaining results to report should get them in before the upgrade. After the upgrade you'll need the 4.x clients to report new results, and upgrading to the 4.x client will reset the project on your machine. Roughly 100,000 results are queued up and ready to be sent out after the upgrade, plus the three splitters will be up and running producing work as quickly as possible. The last set of hardware issues have been resolved. Due to the time of day and other factors the upgrade will be delayed until at least tomorrow morning. We'll post the revised schedule as soon as plans have been firmed up. We have brought down the splitters, transitioners, and scheduler until a bug in the splitter can be resolved which was causing a bogus URL to be posted for the work-unit. We fixed the bogus URL bug and all servers are back up. If your cache is empty of all valid workunits and you have any of the bogus workunits, then reset the project. We have brought down the splitters, transitioners, and scheduler until a bug in the splitter can be resolved which was causing a bogus URL to be posted for the work-unit. We fixed the bogus URL bug and all servers are back up. If your cache is empty of all valid workunits and you have any of the bogus workunits, then reset the project. A trio of splitters are now up and producing new work. We plan to release major version 4 of BOINC and SETI@Home A clarification about last week's fallback to an earlier A trio of splitters are now up and producing new work. < p > We plan to release major version 4 of BOINC and SETI@Home tomorrow. < p > A clarification about last week's fallback to an earlier DB state: all work that was uploaded during the period of August 13th to 18th was lost and so cannot be credited. As well, all work that was generated and downloaded during that period was lost to the DB and so cannot be credited. This work is being regenerated and redistributed. The validator is up and running and credit is now being calculated for all those backlogged results. The validator is up and running and credit is now being calculated for all those backlogged results. We are currently working on getting the alpha/beta projects working again, as well as getting new workunits generated so that when we restart the public SETI@home project there will be work to send out to the clients. Another note about the database restoration: All user profile/preferences updates We are currently working on getting the alpha/beta projects working again, as well as getting new workunits generated so that when we restart the public SETI@home project there will be work to send out to the clients. < p > Another note about the database restoration: All user profile/preferences updates between August 13th and 18th were lost as well. The database has been restored and is being checked now. You may notice that message board posts made in the past week are now missing - this is because we had to fall back to an earlier copy of the database. Sorry for the inconvenience. The database has been restored and is being checked now. You may notice that message board posts made in the past week are now missing - this is because we had to fall back to an earlier copy of the database. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are now recovering the database from a snapshot made a few days ago. This process will continue through tomorrow. We are now recovering the database from a snapshot made a few days ago. This process will continue through tomorrow. The project ended up running all night despite the dropouts, but this afternoon we encountered a sudden raid failure that caused some data corruption. The project will remain down until we recover the database. The project ended up running all night despite the dropouts, but this afternoon we encountered a sudden raid failure that caused some data corruption. The project will remain down until we recover the database. Currently the project is up, as we were unable to recreate the problems we were seeing on Friday. Now there are occasional dropouts, but nothing devastating. We will keep everything running for the time being, but may have to stop if problems arise. Today we are continuing to work with Snap technical support to solve our mounting problems. In the meantime, you may notice the project being started/stopped for brief periods as part of our testing. Today we are continuing to work with Snap technical support to solve our mounting problems. In the meantime, you may notice the project being started/stopped for brief periods as part of our testing. Currently the project is up, as we were unable to recreate the problems we were seeing on Friday. Now there are occasional dropouts, but nothing devastating. We will keep everything running for the time being, but may have to stop if problems arise. We encourage everyone to run SETI@home Classic during our server outages. SETI@home Classic makes the same scientific contribution as SETI@home/BOINC. We encourage everyone to run SETI@home Classic during our server outages. SETI@home Classic makes the same scientific contribution as SETI@home/BOINC. All the data has been copied to the Snap device. Both attempts to bring the project online met with an unexpected NFS issue. Roughly ten minutes after bringing the project online the NFS daemon drops the mount point. Hats off to the Snap technical support team who ha ve been helping us work through this issue. We are still investigating this issue and don't expect to be back online until the beginning of next week. In the meantime everyone have a great weekend. All the data has been copied to the Snap device. Both attempts to bring the project online met with an unexpected NFS issue. Roughly ten minutes after bringing the project online the NFS daemon drops the mount point. Hats off to the Snap technical support team who have been helping us work through this issue. We are still investigating this issue and don't expect to be back online until the beginning of next week. In the meantime everyone have a great weekend. The DB is now on the Snap Appliance and the web site is back up. The project itself is still down as the transfer of the upload and download directories is still under way. The download directory is fully transferred at this point, but we are still waiting for the upload directory to finish. We predict it will finish late in the evening, and we'll start the project fresh tomorrow morning. The DB is now on the Snap Appliance and the web site is back up. The project itself is still down as the transfer of the upload and download directories is still under way. The download directory is fully transferred at this point, but we are still waiting for the upload directory to finish. We predict it will finish late in the evening, and we'll start the project fresh tomorrow morning. The project is now down for the move of the DB and the upload directory to the Snap Appliance. Along with the still running download move, this will be a long process. We hope to be back up midday tomorrow. The project is now down for the move of the DB and the upload directory to the Snap Appliance. Along with the still running download move, this will be a long process. We hope to be back up midday tomorrow. We have started the copy of the download directory to the Snap Appliance 18000. We have started the copy of the download directory to the Snap Appliance 18000. The servers are back up as far as receiving results but not as far as distributing new workunits. We are simultaneously clearing out the old download directory and preparing to move both it and the upload directory to the Snap Appliance, along with the DB. Allowing result uploads will ultimately speed both the deletion of old workunits and results and the granting of credit. Credit for the backlog of results will start being granted once we move to the Snap Appliance and turn on the hierarchical directory structure. The servers are back up as far as receiving results but not as far as distributing new workunits. We are simultaneously clearing out the old download directory and preparing to move both it and the upload directory to the Snap Appliance, along with the DB. Allowing result uploads will ultimately speed both the deletion of old workunits and results and the granting of credit. Credit for the backlog of results will start being granted once we move to the Snap Appliance and turn on the hierarchical directory structure. The scheduling server is down while we work on a download storage problem. This may take a day or so. The scheduling server is down while we work on a download storage problem. This may take a day or so. We developed a hierarchical directory structure to get around the big directory problem (see August 4, below). This solution is backward compatible with all current work units. It is being tested in alpha now. Next week it will go to beta and then to public. We al so have a tool to distribute all recent results into the new hierarchy. When that tool is run, credit will appear for all of these results. The credit appearance will be spread over a number of days. In other news, we have the SnapAppliance 18000 configured. It shows a 10x speed up over the software RAID we are now using. We are awaiting a UPS for it. We developed a hierarchical directory structure to get around the big directory problem (see August 4, below). This solution is backward compatible with all current work units. It is being tested in alpha now. Next week it will go to beta and then to public. We also have a tool to distribute all recent results into the new hierarchy. When that tool is run, credit will appear for all of these results. The credit appearance will be spread over a number of days. In other news, we have the SnapAppliance 18000 configured. It shows a 10x speed up over the software RAID we are now using. We are awaiting a UPS for it. A misconfigured scheduling server ran for about an hour this morning, misinforming users that they had to upgrade to version 4 of the BOINC software. This message was in error - please remain with version 3. A misconfigured scheduling server ran for about an hour this morning, misinforming users that they had to upgrade to version 4 of the BOINC software. This message was in error - please remain with version 3. We discovered that the sheer number of files in the upload directory was killing NFS performance for the file_upload_handler. We started with a new empty upload directory and the file_upload_handler performed much better. The rate of connection drops on the upload server d ropped to zero (most of the time). Of course we need to get all those older results back into play somehow. We are preparing our new SnapAppliance 18000 to host the database. We need to fit it into the power load in our already fairly full data closet, confi gure the DB volume, run some tests, and then copy over the DB files. We will post the progress as we go. We discovered that the sheer number of files in the upload directory was killing NFS performance for the file_upload_handler. We started with a new empty upload directory and the file_upload_handler performed much better. The rate of connection drops on the upload server dropped to zero (most of the time). Of course we need to get all those older results back into play somehow. We are preparing our new SnapAppliance 18000 to host the database. We need to fit it into the power load in our already fairly full data closet, configure the DB volume, run some tests, and then copy over the DB files. We will post the progress as we go. While the project is up and functioning normally, the database and web servers are overloaded. Because of this you may have noticed difficulty in transferring work and loading certain web pages. We're tuning these servers and trying to find the bottlenecks now. While the project is up and functioning normally, the database and web servers are overloaded. Because of this you may have noticed difficulty in transferring work and loading certain web pages. We're tuning these servers and trying to find the bottlenecks now. The project remained down all weekend, but we are back up now. To add insult to injury, the entire lab lost network connectivity to the rest of the world for a few hours this morning. In light of the unexpected length of this last outage, we are looking into mechani sms that allow us to keep certain parts of the project up while others remain down for repair. The project remained down all weekend, but we are back up now. To add insult to injury, the entire lab lost network connectivity to the rest of the world for a few hours this morning. In light of the unexpected length of this last outage, we are looking into mechanisms that allow us to keep certain parts of the project up while others remain down for repair. The project is *still* down. The database cleanup for the bug found on July 28 is going much slower than expected. We hope to have everything back up later today or early tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience! The project is *still* down. The database cleanup for the bug found on July 28 is going much slower than expected. We hope to have everything back up later today or early tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience! The project is currently down. We found a bug in the scheduling code such that returned results were not being updated in the database. We are now running a fix script on the DB, marking each affected result as unsent so that it will be resent. Unfortunately, credi t was not given for results affected by the bug. The project is currently down. We found a bug in the scheduling code such that returned results were not being updated in the database. We are now running a fix script on the DB, marking each affected result as unsent so that it will be resent. Unfortunately, credit was not given for results affected by the bug. The project is down while we deal with a backup problem. We hope to be back up soon. We have shutdown the schedulers and file upload handlers so the transitioners can play catch up again. The transitioners keep falling behind because the DB is I/O bound. We believe that the new hardware we have coming online will resolve this issue. Until it is online we 'll be continuing these rolling blackout style server outages. The project is down while we deal with a backup problem. We hope to be back up soon. We have shutdown the schedulers and file upload handlers so the transitioners can play catch up again. The transitioners keep falling behind because the DB is I/O bound. We believe that the new hardware we have coming online will resolve this issue. Until it is online we'll be continuing these rolling blackout style server outages. The good news is that the scheduler is now running as a fast cgi which means it maintains a persistent connection to the DB. The load on the scheduling server has gone way down which is a good thing and the mysql server is using more CPU which is also a good thing. The bad news is that the transitioner is still way behind and so the project will probably run out of send-able work as early as 04:00 UT tomorrow. The transitioner is slow because the mysql server is IO bound. We are having Sun look at our IO system to see if it can be tuned to better performance. At the same time we are planning on moving the physical DB to a high performance Snap Appliance box in the near future. So we are hopeful that these IO problems can be solved. We are now up and running again, during the night we generated 400k results to be sent out. Things might be a bit weird for awhile, somebody decided to launch a denial of service attack yesterday afternoon. We are now up and running again, during the night we generated 400k results to be sent out. Things might be a bit weird for awhile, somebody decided to launch a denial of service attack yesterday afternoon. The good news is that the scheduler is now running as a fast cgi which means it maintains a persistent connection to the DB. The load on the scheduling server has gone way down which is a good thing and the mysql server is using more CPU which is also a good thing. The bad news is that the transitioner is still way behind and so the project will probably run out of send-able work as early as 04:00 UT tomorrow. The transitioner is slow because the mysql server is IO bound. We are having Sun look at our IO system to see if it can be tuned to better performance. At the same time we are planning on moving the physical DB to a high performance Snap Appliance box in the near future. So we are hopeful that these IO problems can be solved. Yesterday we introduced a bunch of performance enhancements to the system. During the course of letting the system run overnight, we have detected a bug that keeps results from being sent to hosts. It looks at though this bug has only been around for about 13 hours. Whil e we are debugging this issue we have decided to shutdown the scheduler and try and let the transitioners pick up the pace a bit. We found and fixed the no results bug. It was a malformed embedded SQL query. But we are leaving the scheduler off overnight to let the transitioner work through it's backlog. The transitioner works a great deal faster with a small backlog and we hope yesterday's changes will go a long way in preventing a large backlog from recurring. We found and fixed the no results bug. It was a malformed embedded SQL query. But we are leaving the scheduler off overnight to let the transitioner work through it's backlog. The transitioner works a great deal faster with a small backlog and we hope yesterday's changes will go a long way in preventing a large backlog from recurring. Yesterday we introduced a bunch of performance enhancements to the system. During the course of letting the system run overnight, we have detected a bug that keeps results from being sent to hosts. It looks at though this bug has only been around for about 13 hours. While we are debugging this issue we have decided to shutdown the scheduler and try and let the transitioners pick up the pace a bit. The log files are currently being compressed, after thats done the project should return to normal. The log files are currently being compressed, after thats done the project should return to normal. Sometime between 5pm and 12am PDT, the splitters seem to have stopped producing new workunits. We have restarted the splitters and they are back to creating new workunits. We have brought up an additional transitioner to try and cut through the backlog we have accrued. Since the beginning of the project we have already processed 2.7 million results. For comparison, the beta project had only processed 6 million through the whole life of that project to date. Sometime between 5pm and 12am PDT, the splitters seem to have stopped producing new workunits. We have restarted the splitters and they are back to creating new workunits. We have brought up an additional transitioner to try and cut through the backlog we have accrued. Since the beginning of the project we have already processed 2.7 million results. For comparison, the beta project had only processed 6 million through the whole life of that project to date. A server bug was preventing new results from being created in response to failed results. If 2 out of 3 results for a WU succeeded and the 3rd failed, the 2 successful results would not be validated or credited. This is now fixed and the system will issue new results for all workunits in this state. A server bug was preventing new results from being created in response to failed results. If 2 out of 3 results for a WU succeeded and the 3rd failed, the 2 successful results would not be validated or credited. This is now fixed and the system will issue new results for all workunits in this state. Our database server hung and had to be forcibly terminated. It took several hours to check all the tables and indices. Then we ran into problems with our Network Attached Storage device, which we rebooted for the first time in 18 months. Additional outages ma y occur throughout the night and possibly tomorrow. Our database server hung and had to be forcibly terminated. It took several hours to check all the tables and indices. Then we ran into problems with our Network Attached Storage device, which we rebooted for the first time in 18 months. Additional outages may occur throughout the night and possibly tomorrow. It looks as though the server components (splitter, transitioner, feeder, scheduler) are now keeping up with demand. It looks as though the server components (splitter, transitioner, feeder, scheduler) are now keeping up with demand. We have moved the scheduling server to another machine in order to free up CPU and memory for the DB server. Active clients will fail 10 times to connect to the old scheduling server and then will self correct by contacting the master URL. To force the correction ri ght away, simply detach and then (re)attach the project. Since yesterday evening we have distributed over 600,000 results. Thats a six-fold increase in overall system performance from our previous best. Now it looks as though we'll have occasional workunit shortages as we'll have to bring additional splitters online to keep up with demand. It's 8:50pm PDT and we have about 30,000 results in the queue, and we are sending about 1,000 every 10 minutes. Currently the splitters generate 4 workunits per minute which creates 12 results per minute. We have moved the scheduling server to another machine in order to free up CPU and memory for the DB server. Active clients will fail 10 times to connect to the old scheduling server and then will self correct by contacting the master URL. To force the correction right away, simply detach and then (re)attach the project. Since yesterday evening we have distributed over 600,000 results. Thats a six-fold increase in overall system performance from our previous best. Now it looks as though we'll have occasional workunit shortages as we'll have to bring additional splitters online to keep up with demand. It's 8:50pm PDT and we have about 30,000 results in the queue, and we are sending about 1,000 every 10 minutes. Currently the splitters generate 4 workunits per minute which creates 12 results per minute. We're making some major changes to deal with server performance problems. The project will be shut down for several hours today. We're making some major changes to deal with server performance problems. The project will be shut down for several hours today. We've been having problems with server performance. To address these problems we're making some changes to our database. The project will be shut down most of today while this is being done. We made some progress and are turning the project on. You may still have problems getting work. If that is the case, you might consider switching back to SETI@home Classic for the next few days. We've been having problems with server performance. To address these problems we're making some changes to our database. The project will be shut down most of today while this is being done. We made some progress and are turning the project on. You may still have problems getting work. If that is the case, you might consider switching back to SETI@home Classic for the next few days. Yesterday morning we shut down the front end of the system to let the transitioners catch up with several days worth of backlogged work, which is why some of you were noticing three results and no credit assignment. During the down time we also converted the sche duler into a fast-CGI application. Upon bringing the system back up the new fast-CGI scheduler decided to choke on something that it hadn't choked on in Alpha. We are currently debugging the new scheduler. We were able to get through 60% of the backlogg ed work. Yesterday morning we shut down the front end of the system to let the transitioners catch up with several days worth of backlogged work, which is why some of you were noticing three results and no credit assignment. During the down time we also converted the scheduler into a fast-CGI application. Upon bringing the system back up the new fast-CGI scheduler decided to choke on something that it hadn't choked on in Alpha. We are currently debugging the new scheduler. We were able to get through 60% of the backlogged work. An additional transitioner has been brought online. We are turning on the web site and will be monitoring the system. We may have to shut it down again if traffic becomes too bad. We are investigating further performance enhancements. The web site has been reenabled. We have several upgrades scheduled throughout the week which should help with the performance problems. If the project runs out of work again you are welcome to revert back to the original SAH client. We passed the safe threshold again, so the web site has been shut down until Monday, after we have had a chance to relocate some more infrastructure services. An additional transitioner has been brought online. We are turning on the web site and will be monitoring the system. We may have to shut it down again if traffic becomes too bad. We are investigating further performance enhancements. We passed the safe threshold again, so the web site has been shut down until Monday, after we have had a chance to relocate some more infrastructure services. The web site has been reenabled. We have several upgrades scheduled throughout the week which should help with the performance problems. If the project runs out of work again you are welcome to revert back to the original SAH client. We are going to leave the project down until Monday. We are going to bring back up the scheduler in an hour. The transitioner was moved to its own machine and is processing workunits at a much faster rate. We are going to leave the project down until Monday. We are going to bring back up the scheduler in an hour. The transitioner was moved to its own machine and is processing workunits at a much faster rate. Memory for our web server was defective; we are waiting on replacements before bringing it online. We added a second splitter and then hit the next bottleneck which was the transitioner. The transitioner is not currently able to keep up with the splitters. We are going to top the project to allow the transitioner a chance to catch up with the rest of the system. Memory for our web server was defective; we are waiting on replacements before bringing it online. We added a second splitter and then hit the next bottleneck which was the transitioner. The transitioner is not currently able to keep up with the splitters. We are going to top the project to allow the transitioner a chance to catch up with the rest of the system. To handle increased demand for work, we are bringing another splitter online. To handle increased demand for work, we are bringing another splitter online. Read about SETI@home's transition to BOINC We will be having a short server outage tomorrow at 17:00 UTC. Read about < a href= " http://transition.php " rel= " nofollow " > SETI@home's transition to BOINC < /a > Read about [url=transition.php]SETI@home's transition to BOINC[/url] We will be having a short server outage tomorrow at 17:00 UTC. The URL of this project is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu. If you joined using a different URL, please detach and attach to this URL. Version 3.19 of the BOINC core client for Windows is released. Please upgrade. Welcome to the new SETI@home! The project is now officially active. We've reset the project by deleting all results and workunits, and setting all credits (user, team, host) to zero. Thanks to everyone who participated in the alpha and beta tests for their help in debugging SETI@home and BOINC. Our database server crashed yesterday, and it's taken a while for the database to repair itself. Some message-board postings and user profiles may have been lost. The URL of this project is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu. If you joined using a different URL, please detach and attach to this URL. Version 3.19 of the BOINC core client for Windows is released. Please upgrade. Welcome to the new SETI@home! The project is now officially active. We've reset the project by deleting all results and workunits, and setting all credits (user, team, host) to zero. Thanks to everyone who participated in the < a href= " http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha " rel= " nofollow " > alpha < /a > and < a href= " http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/beta " rel= " nofollow " > beta < /a > tests for their help in debugging SETI@home and BOINC. Our database server crashed yesterday, and it's taken a while for the database to repair itself. Some message-board postings and user profiles may have been lost. NOTICE: this project is not officially active. Use at your own risk. We may delete results and reset credits at any time. NOTICE: this project is not officially active. Use at your own risk. We may delete results and reset credits at any time. The project was shut down for about 12 hours yesterday while we removed the uniqueness constraint on SETI@home classic user ID (this was preventing new accounts from being created) The project was shut down for about 12 hours yesterday while we removed the uniqueness constraint on SETI@home classic user ID (this was preventing new accounts from being created) A version of the SETI@home splitter is now feeding work to this project. A version of the SETI@home splitter is now feeding work to this project. We have created the project and migrated the user-related tables from the SETI@home database. We have created the project and migrated the user-related tables from the SETI@home database. Both SETI@Home and Astropulse work production have been halted in order to give database resources to the repairing of a large Astropulse table. Our database work has progressed to the point where we are bringing up SETI@Home. Astropulse remains offline. Our servers are down temporarily while we make some database reconfigurations. Our BOINC database server crashed again today. It has recovered. However, work production is slowed by two large maintenance jobs running on our science database. Every Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we normally have a 3-4 hour outage for database maintenance. The upload/download servers and some web pages are offline during this time. This week took a particularly long time, and we'll be starting up the data servers shortly. Still, expect delays connecting to these servers for a while, and we'll be keeping many database intensive websites offline (like the forums) until some logjams have cleared. Every 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. Our BOINC database server crashed yesterday for the second day in a row. It recovered, but prepare for the projects to be up and down until we are all in the lab on Monday and give the database a full checkup. Our BOINC database server crashed for the second day in a row. It is in the middle of recovery now. We expect the project to be back up sometime tomorrow. Every 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 extra work today's outage will start earlier and end later than usual. Every 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. Our BOINC database server crashed this morning around 10:30am California time. It is in the middle of recovery now. We expect the project to be back up sometime this afternoon. Every week (usually Tuesday morning but we're off by a day due to the recent MLK day holiday) in the 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. Every 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. Update: the outage is taking far longer than we'd like this week (will be about 6-7 hours total). Every 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. Einstein@Home - NewsThe latest radio pulsar re-discoveries are available here. Our count is now at 59 detections of 40 different known radio pulsars. The latest improvements of the search workflow increased the average processing rate to about 200% of the Arecibo data taking rate. This means we're now able to proces s the available backlog of data - thanks to our volunteers! The Einstein@Home project was not sending out any emails for the last few days due to misconfiguration. The problem has been fixed and we apologize for the inconvenience. Our database is currently pretty slow, due to a large number of ABP2 results. We are taking measures to keep the project running, but with a few restrictions: The scheduler (task sending and reporting) is disabled part of the time (clients will see a 'temporarily down for maintenance' message). The server status page has been disabled. We'll also reduce the time results are kept in the database. Hopefully we will be able to return to normal operation in a few days. Our database is currently pretty slow, due to a huge amount of ABP2 results. We are taking measurements to keep the project alive, but with a few restrictions: The scheduler (task sending and reporting) is disabled part of the time (clients will see a 'temporary down for maintenance' message). The server status page has been disabled. We'll also reduce the time results are kept in the database. Hopefully things will get back to normal operation in a few days. The (re-)discovery page has been updated to include the latest observations made by the search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data. In total there are now 53 re-observations of 34 different radio pulsars, including 10 re-observations of 3 different milli-second pulsars. Thanks to all participa ting volunteers! The Arecibo Binary Pulsar search is undergoing a major transition. We expect clients to not get ABP1 tasks for a while, then, if all goes well, tasks for a new application called ABP2. Read more about this here. You may have noticed that the E@H server has been a bit slow over the last 12 hours. There was a bad entry in the database that was causing problems for the transitioner. The project should be more reponsive now. Additionally a network switch died. Bad luck. The switch had been replaced. The project should be back after a DB dump. Parts of the project were taken offline for some cleanup necessary to fix the recent scheduler http problems. We hoped that this could be done within minutes and thus remain unnoticed for most users, but it looks like it will take another hour or two until the scheduler is running again. The (re-)discovery page has been updated to include the latest observations made by the search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data. In total there are now 42 re-observations of 26 different radio pulsars. Thanks to all participating volunteers! Einstein@home has begun to automatically deliver CUDA work and applications for Windows and Linux. Read more in this forum thread. The next update of our radio pulsar re-discoveries is available here. So far we have made 36 detections of 23 different known radio pulsars. The latest radio pulsar re-discoveries are available here. Our count is now at 31 detections of 19 different known radio pulsars. Our latest detection J1939+2134 is the second fastest spinning known pulsar, rotating almost 700 times in a single second. This means it has completed more than 4000 r otations while you've been reading this news post! The (re-)discovery page has been updated to include the latest observations made by the search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data. In total there are now 26 re-observations of 17 different radio pulsars. The results of the first Einstein@Home search for continuous wave sources in LIGO S5 data have been published in Physical Review D. You can download the article from this link. Einstein@home seems to be running smoothly again, in fact more smoothly than before, as a result of the new database server configuration. Einstein@home suffered from another severe fileserver crash last week. We were able to bring the result upload up again with a temporary solution, and are now using the downtime for some improvements of the database setup that should finally speed up re-enabling the project. We expect to have the p roject up & running again in about two hours, i.e. at 16:30 UTC. The Einstein@Home search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data has re-discovered four more known pulsars. More information on these re-discoveries and four re-observations of pulsar J1903+0327 can be found on the (re-)discoveries page. For information on the binary radio pulsar search please ha ve a look at this page. To date, the ongoing Einstein@Home search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data has re-discovered a number of known pulsars. Interested users can find some information about these on the (re-)discoveries page. More information about the radio pulsar search may be found on this page. The Einstein@Home project suffered a fileserver crash and has been offline for the last few days as a result. The project is finally online again and should be back to normal soon. Webpages describing the new Einstein@Home search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data are online now. Follow this link to learn more about radio pulsars, how our new search works, and how it can help us searching for gravitational waves. The results of the first Einstein@Home search of (early) S5 LIGO data have been released on the arXiv.org e-print server. Einstein@Home participants might enjoy watching a new series of short interviews with prominent experts in General Relativity, about black holes and other strange phenomena. This can be found at the ScienceFace web site. Over the weekend the VPN problems were fixed, so the Arecibo Binary Radio Pulsar search is now also running correctly and sending out new work. So Einstein@Home has completely recovered and is back in full operation again! The Einstein@Home project is finally back up and running properly. The binary radio pulsar search may not be sending out new work for a couple of more days while we fix some VPN problems between the WU generator in Hannover and the project database in Milwaukee. However the S5R5 gravitational-wave search IS sending out plenty of work. Many thanks again to our loyal volunteers and contributors for their patience! We have completed the database maintenance and are restarting the Einstein@Home project. Hopefully this will go well, but please be patient as it may take some time before everything is working smoothly again. We are advancing the reporting deadlines for work in progress by 10 days, so that work alr eady completed is not marked as unreturned. Because of the work on the database, contributors will NOT be able to see the status of work that was already completed in the past. However in the future, as before, contributors WILL be able to track this status. No contributor credits have been forgotten or lost. The database is still purging, at a rate of about 400,000 workunits per day. We expect that this process will be completed by about 06:00 UTC tomorrow. At that time, we will do some additional database maintenance (table optimization) and then restart the project. So in total about another 24 hou rs will still be needed to bring everything back to normal. Thanks again for your patience during this unfortunate and long outage. We think we have found a simple fix for the database problems. The database has grown to 45 GB in size and has gotten too large for the physical memory of the machine that hosts it. However it turns out that due to some mistakes made in the project operations during the past weeks, about 80% of the work in the database is already completed. So we are running a db_purge task tonight that should remove this already-completed work from the database, leaving only the work-in-progress still in place in the database. If this is successful, then Einstein@Home should be back up and operating normally in about another 24 hours. Thank you for your patience! The daemons worked through the backlog last night, but turning on the scheduler this morning for a few hours brought the DB down again. Some of the problems have been identified and fixed or worked around, but we are still working on some issues. The project has been shut down again for some DB an alyis runs, it will probably be up and down again a number of times today as we fix the remaining issues one by one. We still have serious problems with our database and are working on it. For the moment we disabled the scheduler to let the rest of the daemons work through the backlogs, i.e. no work is sent out or can be reported. E@H has been experiencing load problems on the database server for most of this weekend. We are still working to try and get the project back to normal. The Einstein@Home project suffered a fileserver crash on Friday March 27 and had more than two days of downtime as a result. The project is running again now and we hope the problems are behind us. The Einstein@Home project has started a new search for binary radio pulsars in data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. This will run in parallel with the existing search for gravitational waves from rapidly-spinning neutron stars. Please see this press release for more information. A German translation is also available. Bored of the old Einstein@Home screensaver? Write your own! Our new BOINC graphics framework should make it a lot easier. Read more about and discuss it in this forum thread. The Einstein@Home S4 search results have been published in Physical Review D. The article may be downloaded free of charge. Just push the Download button right above the author list at this URL. A new analysis run S5R5 has been started to supersede the previous S5R4. It features a higher sensitivity and shorter workunits. Read more about it in this forum thread. A fileserver crashed today and caused several problems you may have noticed. Everything should be working again now. The Einstein@Home project is starting limited public testing of a new pulsar search, which uses PALFA radio data from the Arecibo radio telescope. More information about this search will be released in the coming weeks. Message board threads have been started for scientific information about the search and for problems and bug reports concerning the new application. We will post another front page news item when we formally launch this new search on a larger scale. The project will be shut down for database maintenance today at 15:00 UTC for about an hour. In the next days (probably Monday next week) we will begin testing a new scheduler code. We'll start a specific thread on the Problems and Bug Reports message board to report problems with this new scheduler when we actually start testing. Please prepare for some irregularities while we tune the new setup. We have completed processing the S5R3 workunits. S5R3 was the first search using the combined F-stat plus Hough method, which is currently the most sensitive search technique that is known. This search used approximately one year of data from LIGO's first science run (S5) at design sensitivity. Th e S5R3 post-processing is being led by Dr. Maria Alessandra Papa, one of the inventors of the search technique. We have completed processing the S5R3 workunits. S5R3 was the first search using the combined F-stat plus Hough method, which is currently the most sensitive search technique that is known. This search used approximately one year of data from LIGO's first science run (S5) at design sensitivity. The S5R3 post-processing is being led by Dr. Maria Alessandra Papa, one of the inventors of the search technique. The server upgrade is mostly complete, and we are now distributing work for our new search, S5R4a. If your personal BOINC installation has behaved strangely in the past days, please be patient. In most cases this will now sort itself out. We still need to track down a few remaining issues: some of the project PHP pages are not working entirely as they should, and there have been some performance problems with the web pages. Hopefully these will be resolved in the next few days. The server upgrade is mostly complete, and we are now distributing work for our new search, S5R4a. If your personal BOINC installation has behaved strangely in the past days, please be patient. In most cases this will now sort itself out. We still need to track down a few remaining issues: some of the project PHP pages are not working entirely as they should, and there have been some performance problems with the web page performance. Hopefully these will be resolved in the next few days. Work on Einstein@Home will continue through the weekend and will be finished some time on Monday Aug 4. A news item will be posted when all the work is finished. The Einstein@Home project will be shutdown for approximately one day starting some time after 1700 UTC Friday. Leading up the project downtime we might not have enough work to send out to everyone as we are near the end of our S5R3 analysis. During the outage we will be upgrading the hardware for the main project server and starting the new S5R4 analysis run with a new dataset. Your patience is appreciated. The Einstein@Home project will be shutdown for approximately one day starting some time after 1700 UTC Friday. Leading up the project downtime we might not have enough work to send out to everyone as we are near the end of our S5R3 analysis. During the outage we will be upgrading the hardware for the main project server and starting the new S5R4 analysis run with a new dataset. Your patience is appreciated. We are reaching the end of the current analysis run and expect the last workunits of S5R3 to be generated around Aug 1. Participants will probably experience an increase of the downloads necessary for the remaining S5R3 workunits to be processed. Users with low bandwidth will probably want to suspen d the project for some days. Users of Beta- and Power-Apps should be aware that they will not get tasks of the upcomig S5R4 run with these S5R3 Apps. We are reaching the end of the current analysis run and expect the last workunits of S5R3 to be generated around Aug 1. Participants will probably experience an increase of the downloads necessary for the remaining S5R3 workunits to be processed. Users with low bandwidth will probably want to suspend the project for some days. Users of Beta- and Power-Apps should be aware that they will not get tasks of the upcomig S5R4 run with these S5R3 Apps. You can play a game and learn something about gravitational waves at the new website http://www.blackholehunter.org. This project was developed as part of the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2008. The results of the Einstein@Home search on LIGO S4 data have been officially released on the arXiv.org e-print server. This is the first formal scientific publication resulting from the Einstein@Home project. A short public presentation of the results will be given this Sunday at the annual Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in St. Louis. The results of the Einstein@Home search on LIGO S4 data have been officially released on the arXiv.org e-print server. This is the first formal scientific publication resulting from the Einstein@Home project. A short public presentation of the results will be given this Sunday at the annual Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in St. Louis. We found that we need to split the current S5R3 run at 800 Hz frequency (read more about it in this forum thread). We are currently ~6 days away from the end of the lower half, which means that we are experiencing the usual workunit-cleanup at the end of a run, with the common raise of downlaod traffic during that time. Dial-up users may want to suspend the project for the next days. Einstein@Home will be shutdown for short while today while some updates are made to database. The work will begin at 14:10:00 UTC Oct 25 (today). The E@H project will be down until a problem with the database is fixed. We expect all the problems to be worked out by Mon Oct 15 21:00 UTC. The E@H project will be down until a problem with the database is fixed. This is taking a bit longer than expected. We expect all the problems to be worked out by Mon Oct 15 23:00 UTC. The database problems have been fixed, and the Einstein@Home project is up and running again. Please note that a few contributors may notice some of their results in a strange or incorrect state. Please see this message board thread for more details and to report any problems. A description of the latest S5R3 search, and the sensitivity improvements that it gives compared with earlier versions of the Einstein@Home search, is described in this message board thread. The S5 science run, whose goal was to accumulate one year of triple-coincident data at LIGO design sensitivity, officially ended at 00:00 UTC October 1, 2007. This completes the data-taking stage of a project which was officially begun in 1992 by Kip Thorne, Ron Drever, and Rainer Weiss. LIGO will now undergo two planned upgrades to improve sensitivity. The first of these upgrades (Enhanced LIGO) will be followed by the S6 science run, anticipated for 2009. Einstein@Home is now busy searching the S5 data set. The Einstein@Home S4 postprocessing and analysis are largely complete and under review by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. We hope to provide updates about these results before the end of this year. We have started a new analysis run on LIGO S5 data, called S5R3. This uses a new version of the science application - details will be forthcoming in the Science Message Board area. Users who have been beta-testing the latest app versions should now remove their app_info.xml files. We are reaching the end of the current analysis run S5R2, and participants might soon experience an increase of the downloads necessary for the remaining workunits to be processed. Users with rather low bandwidth will probably want to suspend the project for some days. We have released a updated windows application for Einstein@Home. This application will automatically replace the older application and does not require any action from you. The new app should help with cross-platform compatibility and has some other small improvements as well. We have started a new workunit generator that features a variable deadline between two and three weeks, depending on the size of the workunit. Read more about this feature in this forum thread. We have also changed the server configuration so that recent clients will check the input files each time a task is (re-)started. See this forum thread. We have started a new validator. This change is one of the steps needed to get rid of the cross-platform validation problems. The Einstein@Home servers will be shutdown for about an hour while some hardware is moved around. The downtime will start at 9:00 UTC (today) June 13. Einstein@Home has begun to send out the new Windows App 4.24. It should mainly help us to pin down the remaining bugs in the Windows App code. For this it may download additional information from our Server (or Microsoft) in case of a Client Error. Read more about the Apps features on the Beta Test Page and discuss it in the forum thread mentioned there. The Einstein@Home servers might be shutdown for a few hours tomorrow (May 4) starting at 13:00 UTC. There will be some work done on the AC and E@H will only be shutdown if the Temperature goes too high. Some details of the upcomig S5R2 run can be found in this message board thread. In particular dial-up / modem users might not find this project suitable any longer during the last days of S5RI and S5R2. During the coming months, Einstein@Home will be hiring several students, postdocs and staff members in Milwaukee, USA and Hannover, Germany to help with the project. Further information is available in the "Work for Einstein@Home" area. A final report on the Einstein@Home S3 analysis is now available in the "Science information and progress reports" area. Please post any questions and comments on the "Science" message board. The project performance problems and database load problems have been resolved. Details can be found in this message board post. Thank you for your patience while we sorted this out. The repairs described yesterday are still underway. We will have frequent and unscheduled service interruptions while we continue work on this today. The database problems have been identified but in order to correct them some modifications will be needed on the Einstein@Home back-end components. To effect these modifications, the project will have to be repeatedly taken up and down today. So please be warned: we will have frequent and unscheduled service interruptions while we work on this today. Einstein@Home has been having serious problems with database server load. We are working hard to try and find the source of the problem. You will likely continue to have problems connecting to the project and may get messages like "project down" or similar until we fix the problems at our end. Your patience and support of the project is greatly appreciated and we will try to do a better job of keeping you informed about the status of the project in the future. The Einstein@Home project was offline today due to a server crash. There was a kernel panic on fileserver that is unrelated to previous problems we have had with the fileservers. CPDN@Home - NewsLHC@Home - NewsTwo announcements: 1) The LHC is back up and running you can follow its progress on the CERN twitter feed @CERN or the @lhcstatus feed. The latter is actually a scrape of the screens that the physicists watch to monitor the LHC machine. 2) LHC@home is also back. After a long quiet p eriod we have new studies to work on. The executable has been updated (which is why there is not a Linux version available yet) and the project is now crunching simulations for the LHC upgrade. The team at CERN are working on the Linux executable and the team at QMUL are looking at the server co de and are hoping to update that soon. This is all I will say for the moment. However LHC@home is being used for beam studies from the LHC machine running actual data from the experiments is unlikely as the code has been written for the grid and the datasets are measured in 100s of gigabytes . We have been looking into other LHC uses for the project but it is not easy. Later days, Neasan The server will be down from 5pm GMT on the 8th of January and should be back up and running by 11am on 11th of January. Sorry for the interruption there will be no power in the department over the weekend. The LHC has restarted and has been circulating beams for three days now. To keep up to date on all the latest news follow the CERN twitter feed at twitter.com/cern You couldn't make it up: LHC 'bird-bread' strike On Tuesday 3 November, a bird carrying a baguette bread caused a short circuit in an electrical outdoor installation that serves sectors 7-8 and 8-1 of the LHC. The knock-on effects included an interruption to the operation of the LHC cryogenics sys tem. The bird escaped unharmed but lost its bread. The standard failsafe systems came into operation and after the cause was identified, re-cooling of the machine began and the sectors were back at operating temperature last night. The incident was similar in effect to a standard power cut, for whi ch the machine protection systems are very well prepared. Hi, More news from the LHC the two smaller experiments have posted an update. How TOTEM and LHCf have spent the last 10 months improving their systems. Thanks, Neasan Hi, It's been pretty quiet here at LHC@home we've been working behind the scenes to streamline the server and keep the code as up to date as possible. There has also been some work on the update of the SixTrack application which we hope to roll out soon. The news with the LHC itself since the s et back last year is quite good with it running at 3.5TeV this year. The experiments have also been busy with ATLAS and CMS and LHCb and ALICE working on refinements during the downtime. Thanks, Neasan Today I have installed a new application "sixtrackbnl". This is simply an updated version of the sixtrack executable. We only have this available for windows at the moment but as time permits we will try to produce a linux build. This has been installed as a new application name as we wish to be able to send jobs to either the old or new version and compare results. In due course we may well rename the new executable to sixtrack and carry on as before. Expect some test jobs on this new application to begin with. We will try to post some more information regarding the studies being performed when we get some production jobs running on it. As ever thanks for your contributions. Alex As you've probably all heard from the mainstream media, there was a helium leak from the cooling system for the LHC superconducting dipole magnets, that will result in several months down time to do repairs. It's an unfortunate setback, but not entirely surprising: with a machine of this complex ity, there are bound to be a few snags at the beginning. As Lyn Evans, the leader of the LHC project, has put it, "the LHC is its own prototype". The really unfortunate thing is that it takes so long to warm up the magnets to do repairs and cool them down again. Despite this setback, LHC@home will keep chugging along regardless, to help ensure the machine runs as smoothly as possible once the repairs are done, and to start doing research for future upgrades of the machine, planned in a few years' time. So your contribution is still very much valued! Thanks, Neasan OK last week was a bit busy with conferences and switch on events. Hope you enjoyed the blow by blow account from our man on the ground. The server here got hammered for the entire week as BBC4 had a link to us but we hope everyone was able to get the work that was available. Switch on itself we nt brilliantly and this was a direct result of LHC@home. If you had not been crunching data there is a good chance that the two beams would not have been circulated that quickly and they could have spent ages just getting beam thorugh one sector. We are still waiting on collisions, there was a chanc e that we'd see them yesterday but looks like it is next week now. There is still plenty of work needed on the magnets as they ramp up to full luminosity so there will be plenty of SixTrack work from CERN. Fingers crossed, and yes I know I keep saying this but scientists can work slowly, meticulousl y, but slowly we will have some more apps running. The scientists are looking into the 6.X issues with BOINC as well. Thanks, Neasan Live from CERN - News from the guy wearing an LHC@home t-shirt Just got back to the main LHC control room, the beam just reached ATLAS and the beam has just circulated three times around the ring wild applause. Robert Aymar, the Director General of CERN, shouts out 'c'est le debut de la fin' Live from CERN - News from the guy wearing an LHC@home t-shirt Things have gone far better than expected. It took LEP, the previous giant accelerator, 12 hours to get to this stage. Beam is now being injected every 48s, and going around about 3 times. They're working on optimizing the parameters of all the focussing elements, this uses a lot of the information that LHC@home volunteers have helped provide through the millions of simulations they have run. Once they've 'cleaned up the beam', they'll try sending the beam around the other way. Then they'll work on getting the beam dumps ope rating properly, so they can get rid of the beam in a controlled way (at present, since it is a very low energy beam, it is just being allowed to decay as it goes around the ring, but that could do damage for more intense beams). They may get to interleaving the two beams later today, but collisions are not on the cards. Lyn Evans (the LHC project director) looks jubiliiant! Live from CERN - News from the guy wearing an LHC@home t-shirt Check out Google folks, LHC is flavour of the day!!! Live from CERN - News from the guy wearing an LHC@home t-shirt Proof that LHC@home was there! Lyn Evans head of LHC Project on the left, Steve Myers, Head of Accelerators and Beams Department on the right. Live from CERN - News from the guy wearing an LHC@home t-shirt The beam just circulated counterclockwise for the first time, huge applause. At this rate they should have the Higg's nailed by the weekend (just kidding). Live from CERN - News from the guy wearing an LHC@home t-shirt Latest rumours are that there could be colliding beams (at low energy, mind you) within 24 hours (Steve Myers) or at least within a week (Paul Collier). Wow!!! The guy with the LHC@home t-shirt will be signing off now from the CERN C ontrol Room, but I just heard Brian Cox speaking eloquently on BBC radio about the benefits of fundamental science, and getting everybody more involved in it. LHC@home is a great way to get involved. The volunteers's PCs have helped the accelerator physicists do the simulations that in turn made today such a big success, thank you each and every one! The workunits were coming thick and fast last week. We think that this should continue and we thank you for all your help and patience. There were some issues with the server but we caught them pretty quickly and think we've fixed them. Hopefully they won't happen again. After a post ages ago on the forum about myminicity, I thought it'd be fun to have an LHC@home one. So go to http://lhchome.myminicity.com/ and help us build up our minicity. Later days, Neasan. The workunits were coming thick and fast last week. We think that this should continue and we thank you for all your help and patience. There were some issues with the server but we caught them pretty quickly and think we've fixed them. Hopefully they won't happen again. After a post ages ago on the forum about myminicity, I thought it'd be fun to have an LHC@home one. So go to http://lhchome.myminicity.com/ and help us build up our minicity. Wow we're flying now, only thing now is we've no industry so click http://lhchome.myminicity.com/ind if you haven't visited our fair city today. Later days, Neasan. The workunits were coming thick and fast last week. We think that this should continue and we thank you for all your help and patience. There were some issues with the server but we caught them pretty quickly and think we've fixed them. Hopefully they won't happen again. After a post ages ago on the forum about myminicity, I thought it'd be fun to have an LHC@home one. So go to http://lhchome.myminicity.com/ and help us build up our minicity. Later days, Neasan. Hi all, Hope you've been happy crunching away at the most recent sets of work units. As I type this there are still 15,000 with you so keeping on crunching. This stream of work is of course tied into the impending startup of the LHC itself which is on course to begin later this year. This work is vital in the smooth running of the LHC as a whole reducing the amount of dummy runs and letting the scientists get down to actually doing the real science. While we can't guarantee that we'll still be getting this number ( and length ) of work units in the coming weeks and months it does seem likely. We are still looking into getting some new applications up and running on the project and hope to have some real news on this in the next month or so. The problem is it dependent on many different factors which are a little out of our hands but keep your fingers ( and anything else you like ) crossed. Thanks folks, Neasan & Alex. Happy New Year. We have been quiet recently but rest assured things have been going on behind the scenes here in the UK to keep work units flowing. As some of you will have seen there has been a semi-steady drip of data from the scientists over the last month and you have been busy crunching them. This is not the deluge we thought it'd be but hopefully it is keeping your machines happy. We're now back from the Christmas break and looking forward to a successful 2008, happy crunchers and a whole load more work units. Thanks, Neasan & Alex. The LHC@HOME project will be out of service over the weekend 24th/25th November. Due to ongoing electical work at the Physics Department at Queen Mary, University of London the LHC@HOME server and network will be shutdown at 16:30 GMT 2007-11-23. We aim to bring the server and project back online at around 09:30 GMT 2007-11-26. Thanks, Neasan & Alex. Due to work being carried out in the Physics Department at Queen Mary, University of london the electricity supply needs to be turned off for the weekend. This means that the LHC@home server/service will be unavailable from 17:30 GMT today (09/11/07) till 09:30 GMT on Monday (12/11/07). Sorry for the short notice but we have only been informed. Thanks, Neasan & Alex. As you can see lots of work units to be crunched. The quotas have also been raised so you will be able to get some more everyday for the next while. We know it can be a bit frustrating for some users not getting 500 WUs a day but we want as many people as possible to get some work. The restrictions will be slowly lifted as we get more and more work and we hope we can guarantee a constant flow in the future and remove all restrictions. Thanks, Neasan & Alex.. As you can see lots of work units to be crunched. The quotas have also been raised so you will be able to get some more everyday for the next while. We know it can be a bit frustrating for some users not getting 500 WUs a day but we want as many people as possible to get some work. The restrictions will be slowly lifted as we get more and more work and we hope we can guarantee a constant flow in the future and remove all restrictions. Thanks, Neasan & Alex. Welcome to all our new volunteers. The official launch of LHC@home in the UK was accompanied by a press release which can be seen here. So far we've made, online at least, GridToday, International Science Grid This Week, Scenta, The Register and New Scientist. We'll keep you up to date (or you can tell us) on where the story pops up. We hope everyone is happily munching through the workunits, we will be increasing some of the quotas soon so you can crunch some more. Thanks, Neasan & Alex. Welcome to all our new volunteers. The official launch of LHC@home in the UK was accompanied by a press release which can be seen here. So far we've made, online at least, GridToday, International Science Grid This Week, Scenta, The Register, Scientific Blogging, Public Technology, Topix, Technology News Daily and New Scientist. We'll keep you up to date (or you can tell us) on where the story pops up. We hope everyone is happily munching through the workunits, we will be increasing some of the quotas soon so you can crunch some more. Thanks, Neasan & Alex. Welcome to all our new volunteers. The official launch of LHC@home in the UK was accompanied by a press release which can be seen here. So far we've made, online at least, GridToday, International Science Grid This Week, Scenta, The Register, Scientific Blogging, Public Technology, Topix, Technology News Daily, IT Pro, and New Scientist. We'll keep you up to date (or you can tell us) on where the story pops up. We hope everyone is happily munching through the workunits, we will be increasing some of the quotas soon so you can crunch some more. Thanks, Neasan & Alex. LHC@home moved to the UK a few months ago, and despite a few initial teething problems, the scientists are very happy with the service being provided by us and by you. There will be more work coming from SixTrack in the near future and until the LHC starts up sometime in 2008. Indeed, even after it turns on there will be a demand to keep modeling its behavior and comparing with reality. We have also been in talks with two different groups involved in the LHC experiments about porting their work to BOINC so it can be run under the LHC@home banner. One you may have heard about is Garfield which has been in the pipeline for a while but is now very close to running on LHC@home (the more eagle-eyed volunteers will have seen it is installed and on the Applications page). The other is simulating particle collisions for the ATLAS experiment, one of the four major LHC experiments. This is a good deal more ambitious, and will probably take a while before it is released to volunteers, but we are getting a lot of interest from the CPU-hungry physicists at ATLAS for this. All of these factors combined mean that we have decided to officially launch LHC@home in the UK today in a press release. We hope that this brings in some new volunteers and that you welcome them to the community. I know there are some issues to be addressed on the server and Alex and I are working hard on this, but we are happy that the most important aspect of the project is working, namely that jobs are getting processed and the scientists are getting their science done. Thanks to many of you for helping us learn how to manage a volunteer computing experiment, and looking forward to fun times ahead! Thanks for sticking around, Neasan. LHC@home moved to the UK a few months ago, and despite a few initial teething problems, the scientists are very happy with the service being provided by us and by you. There will be more work coming from SixTrack in the near future and until the LHC starts up sometime in 2008. Indeed, even after it turns on there will be a demand to keep modeling its behavior and comparing with reality. We have also been in talks with two different groups involved in the LHC experiments about porting their work to BOINC so it can be run under the LHC@home banner. One you may have heard about is Garfield which has been in the pipeline for a while but is now very close to running on LHC@home (the more eagle-eyed volunteers will have seen it is installed and on the Applications page). The other is simulating particle collisions for the ATLAS experiment, one of the four major LHC experiments. This is a good deal more ambitious, and will probably take a while before it is released to volunteers, but we are getting a lot of interest from the CPU-hungry physicists at ATLAS for this. All of these factors combined mean that we have decided to officially launch LHC@home in the UK today in a press release. We hope that this brings in some new volunteers and that you welcome them to the community. I know there are some issues to be addressed on the server and Alex and I are working hard on this, but we are happy that the most important aspect of the project is working, namely that jobs are getting processed and the scientists are getting their science done. Thanks to many of you for helping us learn how to manage a volunteer computing experiment, and looking forward to fun times ahead! Thanks for sticking around, Neasan Sorry for the silence. We have both been away and doing our other jobs in various locations (Canada and Hungary are very nice places for conferences at this time of the year). I have been keeping an eye on the message boards and have noted the 'constructive criticisms' of some volunteers. We are both working away behind the scenes on the server and with the scientists to bring you some work, updates and more hopefully. We should have some good news very soon. Thanks for sticking around, Neasan. Well we survived the power outage and we are back up and running. We are talking to the scientists so we should get some new work soon, there may even be some other news but we'll see. Well we survived the power outage and we are back up and running. We are talking to the scientists so we should get some new work soon, there may even be some other news but we'll see. Thanks for your patience over the weekend, Neasan & Alex. As you may know the LHC@home server is housed in Queen Mary, University of London's Physics department. At the moment the department's building is undergoing some renovation which requires that electrical power to the whole building be switched off over the weekend of 18/19 August. This means that the LHC@HOME server will be powered down at about 17:00 BST on Friday 17 August and switched back on at about 09:00 BST on Monday 20 August. Unfortunatly this may be the first of several power outages over the summer. We will keep you informed as soon as we know ourselves! We have discussed this with the scientists and it should not affect the work they are doing and any units you finish crunching will be picked up Monday morning when the server is brought online again. Thanks, in advance, for your patience, Neasan & Alex. We thought you might be interested in what the new runs etc were about so we got one of the scientists to fill you in: Since 2004, and in particular in a long study in 2005, we used results from LHC@home to evaluate different parameters for the LHC machine. The final design choices for the machine have been based in part on the outcome of these studies. Of particular importance was the selection of the beam crossing scheme, which determines how the two proton beans collide within the LHC detectors. The results of these studies have been presented at the European Particle Accelerator Conference in Edinburgh[Paper]. The optimal machine parameters that have been derived from these studies will determine the performance of the LHC when it becomes fully operationally. During the installation of the LHC, all machine elements, including 1232 superconducting dipoles, each 15m long and weighing 34 tonnes, have been tested and their properties are recorded in a data base. The last dipole was lowered into the LHC's underground tunnel on April 26th of this year. The exact knowledge of the properties of these magnets allows us to proceed with a new and more accurate simulation and optimization of the commissioning and operational scenarios. In particular, the impact of the properties of the final focusing (triplet) magnets, which minimize the beam sizes for the most efficient collision, is expected to be important. We thought you might be interested in what the new runs etc were about so we got one of the scientists to fill you in: Since 2004, and in particular in a long study in 2005, we used results from LHC@home to evaluate different parameters for the LHC machine. The final design choices for the machine have been based in part on the outcome of these studies. Of particular importance was the selection of the beam crossing scheme, which determines how the two proton beans collide within the LHC detectors. The results of these studies have been presented at the European Particle Accelerator Conference in Edinburgh[Paper]. The optimal machine parameters that have been derived from these studies will determine the performance of the LHC when it becomes fully operationally. During the installation of the LHC, all machine elements, including 1232 superconducting dipoles, each 15m long and weighing 34 tonnes, have been tested and their properties are recorded in a data base. The last dipole was lowered into the LHC's underground tunnel on April 26th of this year. The exact knowledge of the properties of these magnets allows us to proceed with a new and more accurate simulation and optimization of the commissioning and operational scenarios. In particular, the impact of the properties of the final focusing (triplet) magnets, which minimize the beam sizes for the most efficient collision, is expected to be important. Following the outstanding success of the previous simulation campaign, we have decided to set up a new study programme to provide the necessary insight into the LHC beam dynamics for the scientists working on this challenging task. Due to a recently announced delay in the LHC commissioning schedule, the LHC should start up and be commissioned in the spring of 2008. This still leaves CERN with a very tight schedule, and the start-up is a process that requires detailed knowledge of the anticipated machine characteristics and careful operation, for which detailed procedures have been established. The results from our the new simulation campaign will play an essential role in this process, and we are grateful to all the volunteers for their help. Werner Herr, Accelerators and Beams Department, CERN Well hope you found that interesting we will try and get more words from 'The Horse's Mouth' Later Days, Neasan & Alex. As you will have seen there were ~20,000 WUs up for grabs earlier today and they are now all gone. We hope everyone got some as they were around for a few hours, this is hopefully (but no guarantees) the start of similar batches appearing more regularly. There was an initail minor hitch when they were added to the server that no one was getting them but we've sorted that for the future. Any questions can be dropped in the message boards, but not about when will there be more WUs. As you will have seen there were ~20,000 WUs up for grabs earlier today and they are now all gone. We hope everyone got some as they were around for a few hours, this is hopefully (but no guarantees) the start of similar batches appearing more regularly. There was an initail minor hitch when they were added to the server that no one was getting them but we've sorted that for the future. Any questions can be dropped in the message boards, but not about when will there be more WUs. Thanks, Alex and Neasan As promised/mentioned we have a new look for the website. It's been in the works for a while but cross-browser compatibility was an issue but it is all sorted now and here it is. There will be a website bugs sticky in the forum so if you find any problems or pages looking wrong drop a comment there. As promised/mentioned we have a new look for the website. It's been in the works for a while but cross-browser compatibility was an issue but it is all sorted now and here it is. There will be a website bugs sticky in the forum so if you find any problems or pages looking wrong drop a comment there. Thanks, Alex and Neasan As some will have noticed the LHCathome stats are being exported again. We are still waiting on some Work Units for you all to crunch but we hope to see them soon. The website redesign may appear this week too you never know. Later Days, Alex and Neasan So the move has been made and the system is up and running. Alex is ironing out some tiny little bugs and we are waiting on some jobs to run. Neasan thinks he has finished the new look for the site and forum and that will go live soon once he's happy with it. We know it's frustrating waiting for WUs to crunch but we are happy that soon the drought will be a flood. As always thanks for hanging on in there. Alex and Neasan Welcome to Queen Mary, University of London. The migration should be complete. New clients can be attached to http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ while old clients should just keep working! I've read that Pre-5.8.x clients cache the IP address so you may need to restart these to pick up the new IP address. Next week I intend to run some test jobs through the system so watch this space... We may even have a lick of paint for the web pages too... Welcome to Queen Mary, University of London. The migration should be complete. New clients can be attached to http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ while old clients should just keep working! I've read that Pre-5.8.x clients cache the IP address so you may need to restart these to pick up the new IP address. Next week I intend to run some test jobs through the system so watch this space... We may even have a lick of paint for the web pages too... As always thanks for your support. Alex and Neasan The DNS changes are underway. Welcome to Queen Mary, University of London. No doubt there are things that need tweaking over the comming hours and days. So if someone would like to start a bugs thread that would be great. You may want to wait a couple of days for me to iron out the obvious issues though! Alex The migration is well underway. The DNS changes will have to wait till tomorrow. Alex The project will be down for at least a few hours as we migrate to the new server at Queen Mary, University of London. Alex Came in to work to find problems had developed on other machines I look after over the weekend. As a result I'm forced to push back the migration till Thursday 24th May. We will get there! Alex Came in to work to find problems had developed on other machines I look after over the weekend. As a result I'm forced to push back the migration till Thursday 24th May. We will get there! OK so we are down to zero workunits in progress, however it's late in the day and I'm at a meeting now till Monday. So looks like Monday 21st is migration day! Alex At the time of writing there are approx 300 workunits in progress. When this figure reaches zero the lhcathome service will be migrated from the server at CERN to the server at Queen Mary, University of London. Hopefully this will be tomorrow Tuesday 15th May. Alex and Neasan Yes it is going slower than expected. It is a unique installation of BOINC (very unique) but it is moving ahead and we give you our current To Do List: * Initial Database Migration * Get test system working with database * Ensure e-mail is working properly(trickier than it sounds) * Test migrate again * Real migration * Sort out job submission over AFS by SixTrack User This is going ahead at a pace to make sure that everything is working at every step of the way as opposed to trying to sort it out post a hasty install. So in a few weeks time the problems of yesteryear will seem like a bad dream that never happened and we'll all be happily crunching away. Later days, Neasan and Alex. Because you asked this is our current To Do List: * Database backup and restore * Server backup * Get test system working * Find and compile and test: - Transitioner - Validator - Assimilator - File deleter * Ensure e-mail is working properly * Test migrate * Real migration * Solve any other problems that come up! Cheers, Neasan and Alex. No Stats available at the moment. This has been an issue with LHC@home for a while now and they will not be available again till after the migration but we will inform you when they are back Thank you, Neasan and Alex. Burp@Home - NewsWindows client available soon. The windows client has finally been built and will be in-house tested the next couple of weeks. Afterwards there will be a public pre-alpha test of it. More specific information about this will be announced here at that time. Client updates. The linux client has been updated to the same level that the windows client has. A small issue with incompatible commandline options between linux and windows versions will have to be worked out before the test of the windows client that is scheduled to take place next week. Recently we have had problems with our mailserver not being able to send any emails to new users - sorry about that, it should be fixed now. Reminder: Please note that the fact that this project is still in a pre-alpha state means that you will almost certainly loose (or not get) any credit for the workunits you do. Strange mirror issues. The download array software is still being tested and developed. Currently one of the test servers is having some strange problems with the mirror software. Hopefully this bug will be found and fixed soon. Mirror updates. The mirror software has been updated to version 1.92. This should fix several issues regarding PHP compatibility. Mirror updates. The mirror software has been updated to version 1.93. In the previous versions many of the registered mirrors could not become activated due to several bugs. Most of these bugs should have been fixed in this new version. Feel free to comment or come with ideas in this forum thread. Mirror updates. Testing of a new release of the mirror code has begun. It is scheduled to be released next saturday and is backwards compatible with the current controller - meaning that mirror owners can install the update when they've got the spare time for it (once it is released, that is). Some of the key features of this version are improved error ressilience, support for file renaming and improved range request support. Website design. As you can see we are currently testing one of the new website designs. Feedback would be nice - go to this thread... More bandwidth available. This time the servers have 3 times as much bandwidth, however they are still having problems serving all the requests at the moment. Please be patient. The download array that will eventually fix this network congestion is scheduled to be tested by the end of this month. Service notice. There will be a short run of superfast workunits to test the new windows client. Due to an error in the mirror software all test-mirrors were disabled during the first stage of this run. Currently the mirrors are being resynced. Server is back. The server upgrade is complete. A full system backup has just started. When it finishes, a tiny animation will be run through to test that everything is still working as expected. Service notice. The tiny test (session 138) completed successfully. Mirror network crashed. We experienced a mirror controller crash that corrupted the database table that keeps track of what files are located on what mirrors. The mirror dispatcher (that sends out the files) accidentally assigned each file to the same mirrors 22 times... The mirror dispatc her has been recoded and it is now in the process of retransmitting the files to the mirrors. This may take at least a day since we are talking about all files ever produced by BURP. New disks have arrived. The disk upgrade for the longterm storage arrived today. Earlier today there was 5 min of downtime while the two disks were being installed. They are currently being checked for errors and prepared for use. This is expected to take about 24 hours. Service notice. A test of the latest set of client changes is currently ongoing. Accidentally a batch of faulty workunits were sent out during the night (UTC). These will stall at 98.5%. If you get such a WU please abort it. Workunits that stall at 0.01% should not be aborted unless they stall fo r more than 30 mins. Enough testing. Enough information has been gathered from the test to do at least a couple more weeks of client development before the next test. Occasionally a few WUs will be sent out to test particular features. Service notice. Once the current set of workunits have completed the project will be down to backup the main database and server content. Service notice. Session 192 has been cancelled because it was hitting some of the hardcoded computational limits set for the test client. Credit will be given for the workunits where 2 or more succesful results have been returned. Unfortunately it was not practical to generate credit for workunit s with only 1 result - however, you can rest assured that your results have been very valuable to the project. The next sessions should start shortly. These both have a much lower expected resource usage. If you still have any session 192 workunits on your client you are free to let them run to completion or manually abort them. If you let them run the results will be used to generate an analysis of the system performance but not to make a video. More bandwidth available. As part of a general network upgrade our ISP plans to double our ingoing bandwidth for free (again!) starting August the 28th. This will most likely make it possible to reach speeds of multiple frames per minute and should speed up rendering of simple animations consider ably. Service notice. The tasks on the progress tracker are now the only tasks left before its possible to do another grand-scale test of the system and possibly moving on to the Alpha phase. Recently a big donation was made that made it possible to buy domain names for the project. These will be bought when we reach Beta. Service notice. The upload system has now completed testing and is ready for the soon-to-come alpha switchover. Do you like programming in Java? Would you like to help us out? Have a look at our first community programming task: an applet for uploading sessions. Server is back online. [21:15 UTC] Everything is up and running again. Also, the frontpage speed-o-meter now has been updated to use a smarter way to generate the same (and more) statistics. Service notice. Due to the database issues some of the parts for session 313 and 312 were damaged and will appear as dark areas in the video. Service notice. A new priority system has been introduced. Furthermore the submitting code has been fixed so that it no longer ignores the session start frames (it would always make sessions start from frame 0 instead of what was used in the session setup). This affected mainly session 321. Service notice. Starting from monday the 19th each monday will have have 5 hours of scheduled project maintenance (and thereby potential downtime) starting at 06:00 UTC. This is done to regularly be able to deploy new code and clean and check databases, hardware, filesystems etc - and to ensure a stable service throughout the rest of the week. Usually the downtime will only affect the scheduler (it reports "Project is down") and will leave the website running so that you can still submit sessions or view the gallery, forums etc. A notice will be put up each sunday and during the downtime. Service notice. Resumed normal operation mode, sessions will now again be accepted for rendering. A glitch in the mailserver caused it to drop all outgoing mail since the power failure. This is fixed now. Service notice. Session 349 hit some of the hardcoded time-constraints in our current client and has been aborted. The next generation of clients will allow sessions like this to be rendered. Service notice. Session 365 and 366 have been aborted due to similar issues as with 349 (Blender crashes). Session 368 is very close to the limits of the old client and will fail on some systems. It has been temporarily suspended and will be used to test the new client. The new client is sc heduled to be released right after the easter holidays. Service notice. The credentials needed for a workunit to finish have been changed slightly: A workunit now needs 3 results instead of 2 to be equal in order to validate. Furthermore the initial number of results per workunit has been decreased from 5 to 4 to increase performance. Th is change takes effect on new sessions only, old ones will still have the 5/2 setting. Server is back online. The network connection to the main server has now been restored. On an unrelated sidenote our ISP has upgraded the incomming connection to the main server with 50% with no additional expenses. This will directly affect the number of simultaneous sessions that BURP is capable of rendering. Service notice. Session 463 was cancelled because it created too many errors. Service notice. The server is currently quite overloaded. Some features may be slow or inaccessible. Session thread checking. Sessions with wrong settings for the thread count are now automatically corrected by the server. Service notice. During the next few weeks the acceptance of new sessions will not follow the usual 48-hour limit, sessions may be delayed a bit more than that. Service notice. After about one week where no new sessions were accepted things are now moving forward again. 3 sessions will be started during the next few hours (15.00 UTC to 18.00) and yet another batch will be started later this evening. Service notice. The database will be on and off for the remainder of the day. This unscheduled maintenance happens in order to attempt to increase the performance of the system in cases of sessions with short runtime. You should be able to get workunits most of the time. Service notice. In an attempt to slightly increase the performance of the renderfarm in situations where there hasn't been work for a while the server will now only send out 1 workunit per machine at most every 5 mins. This should limit the number of workunits that people can "stack up" and hence give more machines the possibility of joining in on the rendering. For more information, visit this thread Service notice. Session 639 had to be cancelled due to a glitch in the workunit generator. It has been resubmitted as session 645. Workunits that have already b een started will be completed and will get granted credit. Service notice. If you have workunits from session 648 please abort them as the session has been cancelled since it was hitting some of the built-in time limits of the client. Server upgrade preparations. New server parts are being delivered at some point this week. A great thanks goes to the participants who took part in the fundraising! Server upgrade starting. All the new parts for the server have arrived. The website will be offline for a few hours while installing the new components (during 11:00 - 13:00 UTC). Server upgrade done. The new server is up and running, preparations are made to start rendering again tomorrow. Service notice. For the next 5 weeks it may take a little longer than usual to get your sessions accepted due to the holidays. You can expect sessions to be accepted at least once per week rather than the usual once per 48 hours. This Friday (the 29th) the site will be offline while migrating to new server software. Also, account creation has been closed again due to spammers. We are changing the licensing of the rendered material to a more open set of licenses. Please review the changes to evaluate whether you will continue to contribute processing time to the project. At 11.15 UTC there's going to be a 1 hour IRC session with questions/answers about BURP in the #blender.fi channel. A new and upgraded version of CATS is available - please give it a test to see if you can find any errors with it We are temporarily accepting new accounts During the next few months we are going to migrate to the BURPv.3 website. You can follow the progress and hickups in the forums and on the server status page. A few days ago the number of active developers increased dramatically - a big welcome to Brian and Matthew! This monday will bring extended downtime while the renderqueue is cleaned and a thorough system backup is taken. New sessions will not be accepted before the end of the maintenance (although you can naturally still enqueue them). A tiny spelling error in yesterday's news item made it look like GM had acquired BURP. The correct wording (without the spelling error) was naturally: "Happy 1st of April!" We are happy to announce that BURP along with all user accounts has been sold to General Motors. The GM spokesman explains the purchase as follows: "Our cars have sophisticated computer systems protecting you during accidents, we want those systems to also do something useful when yo u are not performing an emergency braking procedure. Drive safely and make the world a better place by letting your car render 3D graphics." As a consequence we will no longer be supporting the Windows and Linux operating systems and will instead focus all development on the custom proce ssors in the Cadilac and Chevrolet series. Please note that the current version of the GM-compatible client may need as much as 30 secs to pause and resume computations. This is not an issue as long as you avoid situations that require use of the brakes or the stearing wheel during those 30 seconds. The radio will remain unaffected. (07.19 UTC) Power is back and the server is now online again. The issue was a broken cable at a nearby high-voltage power transformation station. (23.54 UTC) We are currently experiencing an extended power outtage and will be shutting down the servers to protect them from harm. We are back up and running. Workunits will start being sent out over the next few days - slowly at first, though The (other, not the one that has already failed) raid drive just failed and went offline. The project will be down until the issue can be narrowed down and solved. The switchover only took 15 mins and everything should be back up and running now - and running 4 times as fast too Tuesday the 14th from 10:00 UTC the website will be offline while the router that handles external networking is replaced in order to upgrade to a faster connection from a new ISP. Initial estimates say that the connection should be stable again at 17:00 UTC but the actual time depends on how fast DNS servers around the world will pick up our new IP address. Short version: Website will be down Tuesday, hopefully up again for more BURPing by Wednesday. Tuesday the 14th from 10:00 UTC the website will be offline while the router that handles external networking is replaced in order to upgrade to a faster connection from a new ISP. Initial estimates say that the connection should be stable again at 17:00 UTC but the actual time depends on how fast DNS servers around the world will pick up our new IP address. Short version: Website will be down Tuesday, hopefully up again for more BURPing by Wednesday. Tuesday the 14th from 10:00 UTC the website will be offline while the router that handles external networking is replaced in order to upgrade to a faster connection from a new ISP. Initial estimates say that the connection should be stable again at 17:00 UTC but the actual time depends on how fast DNS servers around the world will pick up our new IP address. Short version: Website will be down Tuesday, hopefully up again for more BURPing by Wednesday. Tuesday the 14th from 12:00 UTC the website will be offline while the router that handles external networking is replaced in order to upgrade to a faster connection from a new ISP. Initial estimates say that the connection should be stable again at 17:00 UTC but the actual time depends on how fast DNS servers around the world will pick up our new IP address. Short version: Website will be down Tuesday, hopefully up again for more BURPing by Wednesday. The webserver was unexpectedly offline today from about 10:00 UTC to 21:00 due to a human error introduced in the firewall rules while updating the server software. Over the next few weeks you may see similar sporadic downtime or interrupted connections as the development platform for the beta system is being installed and tested. The webserver was unexpectedly offline today from about 10:00 UTC to 21:00 due to a human error introduced in the firewall rules while updating the server software. Over the next few weeks you may see similar sporadic downtime or interrupted connections as the development platform for the beta system is being installed and tested. If you have received spam appearing to originate from our servers or linking to our servers please have a look at this forum thread about the recent spambot activity. If you have received spam appearing to originate from our servers or linking to our servers please have a look at this forum thread about the recent spambot activity. For the next 5 weeks it may take a little longer than usual to get your sessions accepted due to the holidays. You can expect sessions to be accepted at least once per week rather than the usual once per 48 hours. For the next 5 weeks it may take a little longer than usual to get your sessions accepted due to the holidays. You can expect sessions to be accepted at least once per week rather than the usual once per 48 hours. Version 4.57 of the client is ready to be deployed as soon as the renderqueue has been cleared. This version includes the latest version of Blender 2.46 and the Glue2 code that makes it work with BURP. No new sessions will be accepted until the renderqueue is empty but you are free to submit sessions to be rendered afterwards. Version 4.57 of the client is ready to be deployed as soon as the renderqueue has been cleared. This version includes the latest version of Blender 2.46 and the Glue2 code that makes it work with BURP. No new sessions will be accepted until the renderqueue is empty but you are free to submit sessions to be rendered afterwards. The monday maintenance this next monday will be extended with additional downtime in the afternoon starting at 14.00 UTC lasting for about 6 hours. During the downtime the database and filesystems will be cleaned. In the hours leading up to the maintenance no new sessions will enter the renderque ue - it is of course still possible to submit sessions for later rendering. The monday maintenance this next monday will be extended with additional downtime in the afternoon starting at 14.00 UTC lasting for about 6 hours. During the downtime the database and filesystems will be cleaned. In the hours leading up to the maintenance no new sessions will enter the renderqueue - it is of course still possible to submit sessions for later rendering. The monday maintenance this next monday will be extended with additional downtime in the afternoon starting at 14.00 UTC lasting for about 6 hours. During the downtime the database and filesystems will be cleaned. In the hours leading up to the maintenance no new sessions will enter the renderqueue - it is of course still possible to submit sessions for later rendering. BURP will not always have work available. If you are interested in keeping your machine(s) crunching even when BURP is out of work you are encouraged to check out some of the other BOINC projects. By setting a high resource share for BURP and a lower resource share for the other projects you are sure to get BURP workunits when there are any. BURP will not always have work available. If you are interested in keeping your machine(s) crunching even when BURP is out of work you are encouraged to check out some of the other BOINC projects. By setting a high resource share for BURP and a lower resource share for the other projects you are sure to get BURP workunits when there are any. The alpha project code has been feature-frozen and all development will now be focused on writing the beta code. The alpha website will remain fully functional until the beta version can be deployed. For more information please check this forum thread. The alpha project code has been feature-frozen and all development will now be focused on writing the beta code. The alpha website will remain fully functional until the beta version can be deployed. For more information please check this forum thread. BURP has been sold to Apple Inc. and will be renamed to i3D. This will have a few implications, mostly: It will now cost $89 to participate in the project (as artist or CPU-time contributor) The BURP client will require a working installation of iTunes and Quicktime v. 7.4 in order to correctly download workunits The screensaver has been implemented to show a trade display of Apple products Additionally all the movie files on the website will now include DRM so that they can only be played with the Quicktime player and cannot be copied. The monday maintenance tomorrow will be extended with additional downtime starting 12:30 UTC ending approximately 23:00 UTC. The downtime will be utilized for backups, further debugging of the raid mirror issue and for general system maintenance. The website will be down for 2 hours starting 16:00 UTC due to a scheduled power cut. The project is back online after almost a week of downtime caused by an unfortunate combination of events. More information in this forum thread. A bit of panic started to grow today when a BIOS update (due to the reoccouring disk issue) froze the webserver completely - nothing could get it back up, not even a power cycle. Fortunately it turned out that the old BIOS settings were simply not being read correctly by the new BIOS. After clearing the BIOS RAM the system is now running again. The project was temporarily offline for about 4 hours starting at 8 UTC due to an issue with a network cable. Everything is back online now. The first few test-sessions went through without any issues and BURP will now be sending out workunits and accepting sessions again. Enjoy! The new server is up and running, preparations are made to start rendering again tomorrow. All the new parts for the server have arrived. The website will be offline for a few hours while installing the new components (during 11:00 - 13:00 UTC). New server parts are being delivered at some point this week. A great thanks goes to the participants who took part in the fundraising! (11.00 UTC) The server crashed again, this time for good. The motherboard did a suicidal action and took the CPU with it down. Until it is possible to install a replacement motherboard and CPU the server will be running in degraded-mode meaning that no sessions will be rendered and no access will be available to the result and workunit database (see the more technical details for a reason why). Forums and the remaining website should be unaffected and no data was lost during this incident. Updates on service availability will be posted here when the status changes. Currently mail and CVS is offline along with the longterm storage array. A fundraising for the new server components has been created. The exact cost is still to be determined. Keep tuned for updates. Another server crash, this is seemingly a rather serious hardware issue related to the motherboard. The webserver crashed this friday and was restarted a few hours ago. An investigation into what has happened has been initiated. A new version (0.2.1) of CATS was released today. |
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