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Important News!

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.

BOINC v4.25 is the latest stable release. There's a test release of v4.26, and v4.27 (depends on platform). However, v4.19 works just fine still.

Transistion plan here:
setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...

The Seti@home Classic stats have been updated recently on the Seti@home BOINC user stats page. Expect a few more before S@H is turned off.

"You have been added to the team AboveTopSecret.com"


OK, Now what? I don't even have the software loaded on my system yet. I guess I should head over to seti to D/L it.

I sure hope we get all the credits I accrued in the past. I used to run Seti quite a bit but eventually went to other things.

My system now should also be able to run more of the things as well. I have an authentic Pentium 2.4 with 1024 mgbs of Ram. I look forward to seeing how many blocks it can do in a day now.

Oh well, off to the Seti site.

Love and light,

Wupy

Its official, i'm on board.

turns out I only had 60 previous units done, but thats still 60 more than we had before I joined.

Love and light,

Wupy

Also, in the S@H Classic forums it says:

WARNING: We will soon be ramping down these message boards and we highly encourage everybody to start using the BOINC message board system:
setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...

Of course, you'll have to register your account with BOINC to post new messages there. In case you haven't done so, information is here:
setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...

More information about the new SETI@home in general: setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...

The earliest that the S@H servers will shutdown is April 1. And that's no joke. You could be sure that the servers will be down by Mid-May to Mid-June. There will be a few steps before this happens though. They're already recommending switching to BOINC on the S@H Classic frontpage and in their forums. Step 1 should happen soon. Steps 2-4 will happen between the time that email is sent out and after April 1. These dates are TBA still, and I will provide another update stating these specific dates.

Step 1: An email will go out to all users saying to upgrade to BOINC
Step 2: Account creation will be disabled
Step 3: Workunits will be stopped for Seti@home Classic
Step 4: The data server for Classic will be turned off. S@H Classic will no longer send workunits or accept results. Functions to update account information are also disabled. They will update the BOINC account database with current information from S@H Classic one final time. At this point the Classic statistics are frozen (though they may continue to eliminate 'cheaters').

At this time, the program won't really do much, so it's time to uninstall/delete Seti@home Classic from computers.

BOINC 4.43 was released yesterday.

download page

Does ATS have an Einstein at home Boinc Team also? I run those units occasionaly and wouldnt mind adding them to the mix also.

I haven't seen an ATS E@H team.

In News:

"We are switching the setiathome.berkeley.edu... URL to point here (setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/). The SETI@home Classic web site has been moved to seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu...."

ATS Mods, should we start an Eistein at home team for those of us that run the E@h units also. And...how many of us Seti Runners run Einstein?

[edit on 3-6-2005 by S1LV3R4D0]

If Genya is still frequenting ATS he'd probably be the one to U2U about this. Or possibly spectre.

About two weeks ago, SimonGray gave me permission to create ATS teams for the other BOINC projects. I forgot about it, I was working on other BOINC stuff for ATS.

I'll create them later today

What I dont know is what the CPID (cross project ID) is actually for. I understand you can link two accounts to one another, but can you also use the same account for all the BOINC projects, or do you have to create seperate accounts for every project???

I'll look into it, if I dont figgure it out in a few hours, I'll just create new accounts for every BOINC project and create the ATS teams with the new accounts.

I'll let you guys know when it's ready, please dont create ATS teams yourself, let me handle that.


Official announcement:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

[edit on 6-5-2005 by Zion Mainframe]

BOINC 4.45 has been released

boinc.berkeley.edu...

"We are going to be reviving the SETI@home beta site soon (if it isn't up already). There's some last minute science changes that should be tested before we final throw the switch and start shutting down SETI@home classic."

This was taken from a forum thread on the S@H site, said by a developer.

setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...

It appears that "Seti@home Enhanced" will replace "Seti@home" on BOINC. This enhanced version is being beta tested.

hello guys,

just downloaded the new versionof BOINC. cool.
the thing is that i would like to join the ATS team but i can't find it.

could someone help me here?

thanks
Jules

Sure can Jules, head over To this Thread for links to join every team ATS has. Zion Mainframe did an excellent job setting up teams for every project(i think) there is so far.

thanks for that. i am now part of the team.

see you guys on BOINC

"We turned off the ability to create new SETI@home classic accounts. All new users should download and use the BOINC version of SETI@home instead."

This is posted on the Seti@home Classic homepage. This is no joke. This is the REAL thing.

There will be a 1-2 month warning after the emails go out, before Seti@home Classic is shutdown. The email will basically tell people to switch to BOINC to continue Seti@home (and other projects). As of this post, the emails have NOT gone out yet. We still have time. Anyone trying to reach a goal such as 5000, 7500, etc. I highly recommend that you concentrate on that then, instead of BOINC. With a 1-2 month warning period, that leaves August 1, 2005 to be the earliest that S@H Classic will end. Classic workunits will end before it shuts down, which means that it may be wise to cache workunits using a program such as SETI Monitor. Good luck to all trying to reach their final Seti@home Classic workunit goal!