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Originally posted by mxboy15u
So am I doing anything by running Boinc? I just switched from the old seti@home. Can I run boinc with the knowledge it is doing something? Or do I reinstall the old seti?

Yes you can run BOINC knowing it is doing something.

Credit is awarded completely normally, and won't be potentially lost like the BOINCbeta test credit.

You can also see you work units scan progress and check the statistics online.

According to www.setisynergy.com... stats,

team ATS is in position 269 of10,565 BOINC S@H teams on total credit received, but with only 29 active members.

Make that 30 active users, including me!

3 Days later, we're now up two places in BOINC team rankings, at 367 of 10602 teams

I am still running seti classic and have started a bigger push this past month. The team ranking has gone up 30 spots 390 - 360.
Should I switch over now, or just wait till classic is retired?

www.setiatwork.com...
www.setiatwork.com...

From the forums I've read some news about the switchover from Seti@home Classic to BOINC.

More hardware is being ordered, which will increase the ability to handle all the current S@H Classic users. Once these items arrive early next year, everything will be configured, and Classic will be turned off. With the new hardware the BOINC pending credit will be turned back on.

Some more news though (more recent).

The hardware arrived early, and over the next 2 weeks or so it will be setup.

So when will S@H Classic end? I estimate in January it'll be ready to close, but maybe they'll give everyone some time to switch to BOINC and give them some extra time.

Not much time is left for S@H Classic, so I'll be switching back to S@H Classic to finish some more workunits.

BOINC v4.57 released to Alpha.

On the road to decommission:
1. get servers in place for BOINC that will handle 500,000 new users. Web servers, data servers, databases, etc. This is happening right now.
2. Mass e-mail asking all Seti@home users to consider moving to BOINC. Info will also be posted on the homepage. There will be a clear cut-off date when S@H Classic stops working.
3. Before turning off the old databases for S@H, the final stats page will be generated.

Also, BOINC v4.14 coming soon, which fixes a serious bug. This bug causes failure of a job if the download of any of its input files fails (the correct behavior is to retry and complete the download, then run the job). Moreover, any other job that used the same files would also fail.

The Seti@home BOINC site has been redesigned, so the end of S@H Classic may be very near. Also, they're asking if anyone could create milestone certificates using the new S@H logo.

BOINC v4.16 it out, but not available for download yet officially. This will be a bug fix release.

The next alpha is v4.60, which has been taggd for release.

Any day now, an email will be sent out that will recommend people to switch to BOINC. This will be the first step in shutting down Seti@home Classic.

The latest stable version of BOINC is v4.19, and the latest development version of BOINC is v4.23.

On the Seti@home homepage:

NOTICE: SETI@home is in the process of switching to new software called BOINC, which lets you run other projects (like Climateprediction.net and Einstein@home) on your computer as well as SETI@home. Please visit our new SETI@home/BOINC web site.

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[edit on 24-2-2005 by S1LV3R4D0]

Setisynergy's great stats page has changed address:

BOINC Stats for ATS

BOINCsynergy stats site

PS- good to see some more people switching over. keep crunching guys!

[edit on 28/2/05 by minimi]

OK, I just tried to join the team and couldn't get anywhere regardless of what I tried.

Is there a bug in the system at the moment or am I doing something wrong?

Love and light,

Wupy

None of my machines are able to contact the scheduling servers right now, the servers have been reeeaaalll tweaky over the past cple weeks...that might be the prob.

Yeah. I've been unable to connect for several days and still can't now. The setiboinc site says they're having power supply problems and the project is having a lot of downtime due to them.

Well some how magically my fileserver was able to pull units for the past couple of days...not the others tho and now it has like 40 units to upload..weird

It appears to be back up - I'm getting new WUs fine now.

What happened to the stats This used to be our team stats...now wtf