Step 2
The software Download.
1.At the Seti@home BOINC site (setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...), click on "Participate in SETI@home " in the top left of the
page.
2.Under the heading "Getting started", click on "3. Download, install, and run the BOINC software used by SETI@home."
3.Look at the table under "Stable version (recommended)" on the page that comes up.
Click on the "Download" link in the row of the table relating to the operating system your computer uses.
Click "Save to disk" in the dialog box that comes up.
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SETI@Home BOINC switch over (or new user!) Tutorial., page 1
privacy
Topic started on 21-11-2004 @ 11:35 AM by minimi
This is a tutorial to make signing up to BOINC and participating in S@H BONC as easy as possible for anyone.
Step 1
The Signup.
1.If you are running Seti@home classic, exit the program completely.
2.Go to the Seti@home BOINC site : setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu....
3. Click on "Participate in SETI@home" in the top left of the page.
4. If you have been running Seti@home classic, click on(Under the heading "Getting started") " You must now activate the account."
If you are new to Seti@Home,click " Otherwise: Create a new account "
5.If you are just activating your BOINC account, you will just need to type in the email address you signed up to seti@home classic with, and click "OK". Your new BOINC account ID number will be emailed straight to you.
If you are new to Seti@home and creating an account, the process is only marginally more complicated. You need to put in a name (not necessarily your real one), and an email address so your BOINC account ID number can be emailed to you. You can also choose a country, for working out national Seti@home statistics if you wish.
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Step 1
The Signup.
1.If you are running Seti@home classic, exit the program completely.
2.Go to the Seti@home BOINC site : setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu....
3. Click on "Participate in SETI@home" in the top left of the page.
4. If you have been running Seti@home classic, click on(Under the heading "Getting started") " You must now activate the account."
If you are new to Seti@Home,click " Otherwise: Create a new account "
5.If you are just activating your BOINC account, you will just need to type in the email address you signed up to seti@home classic with, and click "OK". Your new BOINC account ID number will be emailed straight to you.
If you are new to Seti@home and creating an account, the process is only marginally more complicated. You need to put in a name (not necessarily your real one), and an email address so your BOINC account ID number can be emailed to you. You can also choose a country, for working out national Seti@home statistics if you wish.
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reply posted on 21-11-2004 @ 01:20 PM by minimi
Step 4
Connecting to seti at home.
1. Double click on the B in the system tray to open up BOINC
(if the BOINC window is not already open.)
2.Just under where it says "BOINC" in the title bar, click "Settings", then "Attach to Project..."
3.Check your email now. Look at the email sent to you by BOINC Admin, subject " Seti@home Account confirmation".
From it cut and paste the Seti@home URL( setiathome.berkeley.edu...) into the "Project URL" box in BOINC.
4.Also cut and paste your "Account ID" (example:3a567bb25273838sbb7a093ng6h) from the email into the "Account ID" box in BOINC. Then click the OK button.
(Make sure when cut and pasting you didn't accidentally cut and paste any spaces in. I did this. I had a space before the project URL, so couldn't get it to attach.)
You should now have BOINC successfully installed, and be attached to Seti@home. Once you click OK in the Attach to Project box, BOINC will automatically start to download Seti@home crunching software and work units (pieces of information to be scanned by your computer)
Connecting to seti at home.
1. Double click on the B in the system tray to open up BOINC
(if the BOINC window is not already open.)
2.Just under where it says "BOINC" in the title bar, click "Settings", then "Attach to Project..."
3.Check your email now. Look at the email sent to you by BOINC Admin, subject " Seti@home Account confirmation".
From it cut and paste the Seti@home URL( setiathome.berkeley.edu...) into the "Project URL" box in BOINC.
4.Also cut and paste your "Account ID" (example:3a567bb25273838sbb7a093ng6h) from the email into the "Account ID" box in BOINC. Then click the OK button.
(Make sure when cut and pasting you didn't accidentally cut and paste any spaces in. I did this. I had a space before the project URL, so couldn't get it to attach.)
You should now have BOINC successfully installed, and be attached to Seti@home. Once you click OK in the Attach to Project box, BOINC will automatically start to download Seti@home crunching software and work units (pieces of information to be scanned by your computer)
reply posted on 21-11-2004 @ 01:22 PM by minimi
Now you're running BOINC, if you weren't a Seti@home classic user on the ATS team, you'll want to join the AboveTopSecret.Com Seti@home team.
1.Go to The Seti@home BOINC site (setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...).
2. Click on "Your Account", (below"Participate in SETI@home" in the links list). In the page that comes up, enter your Account ID number (the long 24sbfdbf63bd8383jdf6dh00 nfrom your BOINC Admin email) in the box provided. The click "Log In"
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Return to SETI@home main page"
4. Back at the main page, click on "Community" in the list of links on the left (below "Your Account"
5.Click the "Teams" link on the page that comes up.
6.In the search box on the next page, type in AboveTopSecret.com (no spaces) and click the "Search" button.
7. Click on "AboveTopSecret.com" in the list of search results.
8.On the page that comes up, which has a list of all the team members, click "Join" below where it says "SimonGray" in the team info.
9.Click the "Join team" button on the page that comes up.
Congratulations. Now you are a member of the AboveTopSecret.Com Seti@home BOINC team.
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1.Go to The Seti@home BOINC site (setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...).
2. Click on "Your Account", (below"Participate in SETI@home" in the links list). In the page that comes up, enter your Account ID number (the long 24sbfdbf63bd8383jdf6dh00 nfrom your BOINC Admin email) in the box provided. The click "Log In"
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Return to SETI@home main page"
4. Back at the main page, click on "Community" in the list of links on the left (below "Your Account"
5.Click the "Teams" link on the page that comes up.
6.In the search box on the next page, type in AboveTopSecret.com (no spaces) and click the "Search" button.
7. Click on "AboveTopSecret.com" in the list of search results.
8.On the page that comes up, which has a list of all the team members, click "Join" below where it says "SimonGray" in the team info.
9.Click the "Join team" button on the page that comes up.
Congratulations. Now you are a member of the AboveTopSecret.Com Seti@home BOINC team.
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reply posted on 21-11-2004 @ 01:39 PM by minimi
Seti@home classic users may have used external programs like Setimon to cache work units on the hard disk for scanning later, soconnecting to the
internet was not necessary everytime you finished a work unit. BOINC needs no external program to do this; here is how to do it:
1. Go to the BOINC site:
setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...
2. Click on "Your Account"
3. Login.
4.Scroll down and click on "General Preferences".
5. Click on "Edit Preferences".
6. In the box : "Connect to network about every _____ Days" fill in the box with the
number 5. You can increase it if you want more cached WUs.
7. Click "Update Preferences"
You should end up having a cache of WUs like this
Check ATS BOINC stats at:
www.setisynergy.com...
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1. Go to the BOINC site:
setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu...
2. Click on "Your Account"
3. Login.
4.Scroll down and click on "General Preferences".
5. Click on "Edit Preferences".
6. In the box : "Connect to network about every _____ Days" fill in the box with the
number 5. You can increase it if you want more cached WUs.
7. Click "Update Preferences"
You should end up having a cache of WUs like this
Check ATS BOINC stats at:
www.setisynergy.com...
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ive noticed that seti runs bout 50% on each cpu of a hyperthread(100% if i open the graphical window, cmd line seems
just about the same in cpu and time per unit, but can run multiple instances of it REALLY maxin out the cpu. but boinc seems to be doing 2 at a time
to max both out so kinda evens out....not too shabby, im likin it so far. and Thanx for all ur help and info minimi... u rox 
reply posted on 3-12-2004 @ 01:38 PM by minimi
Additional Programs for BOINC/Seti@Home
Seti@Home map view
This is a page which has a download link and instructions for installing.
The program does just about what it says on the tin.
BoincLogX
Here is a list of addons, including some of these; but some of the links take you to non-English language webpages.
BoincLogx logs information about your scanned work units, and creates the data necessary to see old units in SetiSkymap. Download and instructions on the link page.
BOINCSpy
BOINC Spy is like the program SetiSpy for seti@home classic. It allows you to see information on the work unit you are scanning.
Seti@Home map view
This is a page which has a download link and instructions for installing.
The program does just about what it says on the tin.
BoincLogX
Here is a list of addons, including some of these; but some of the links take you to non-English language webpages.
BoincLogx logs information about your scanned work units, and creates the data necessary to see old units in SetiSkymap. Download and instructions on the link page.
BOINCSpy
BOINC Spy is like the program SetiSpy for seti@home classic. It allows you to see information on the work unit you are scanning.
reply posted on 3-12-2004 @ 02:00 PM by minimi
Minimi's Jargon Buster
A little glossary for those unacquainted with some of the terms here;
SETI: the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. A private program of scientists trying to find alien life.
Seti@home: A Project by the SETI Institue using the principle of distributing computing, in which one can install the seti@home program onto there computer, which will then download radio data collected by radio telescopes and scan it for signals which may have an alien origin.
Seti@home classic: The original Seti@home screensaver program
Distributed Computing: A tehcnique of distributing data to lots of computers for processing, such as Seti@Home does.
BOINC: a program developed by Berekeley Space Science Labs as a platform for the next generation of distributing computing projects. (Seti@home classic/folding@home etc. being the original generation). BOINC is being used as the platform for the new Seti@home and other projects such as Astropulse.
Work Unit (WU): A piece of Radio data downloaded and scanned by Seti@home on your computer.
A little glossary for those unacquainted with some of the terms here;
SETI: the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. A private program of scientists trying to find alien life.
Seti@home: A Project by the SETI Institue using the principle of distributing computing, in which one can install the seti@home program onto there computer, which will then download radio data collected by radio telescopes and scan it for signals which may have an alien origin.
Seti@home classic: The original Seti@home screensaver program
Distributed Computing: A tehcnique of distributing data to lots of computers for processing, such as Seti@Home does.
BOINC: a program developed by Berekeley Space Science Labs as a platform for the next generation of distributing computing projects. (Seti@home classic/folding@home etc. being the original generation). BOINC is being used as the platform for the new Seti@home and other projects such as Astropulse.
Work Unit (WU): A piece of Radio data downloaded and scanned by Seti@home on your computer.
