SETI@Home: SETI@home hibernation

[denim]

Did the quick math. No chance I can make 5m before the shut down. But, I will let all the WU's finish out that I have.

[shiva]

There is a way to email all team members via the founder account on most projects. Of course I can't check that right now because the project is shut down for Tuesday maintenance.

yea Al I know, just seems that every time I have brought up giving a notice to members I catch crap about spamming them. I think we need to give them a heads up, but not my decision.

[zombie67]

Did the quick math. No chance I can make 5m before the shut down. But, I will let all the WU's finish out that I have.

How much too you need to get you to 5m? Something like 500k more? PM me your credentials, and I will help.

[FourOh]

Bitter-sweet news. Their pre-BOINC project is what got me started with distributed computing all those years ago, and I thank them for that. OTOH, the project was not run well and it soured for me over time.

P.S. I *really* wish it was possible to change a team name...

Same here! 18 years... probably half million hours of CPU and GPU time... can't say I'm sure where it all went

[trigggl]

we are going to have a ton of members that probably are not going to know what to do after seti shuts down. might be a good time to help them move to a different project. we could inform them of the most stable projects, as a lot to them are set it and forget it users. if we don't try to help them they might just stop boinc all together.

I think WCG would be a good one to steer that kind of crunching power to.

[Al]

I think WCG would be a good one to steer that kind of crunching power to.

Let me work on a short message, with help from anyone that want's to help. WCG, Einstein, Universe or Asteroids might all be good projects. Possibly linking to this page might to a good idea also.

[denim]

How much too you need to get you to 5m? Something like 500k more? PM me your credentials, and I will help.

Oh sweet, thank you!!

[shiva]

I have a copy of the book Seti Pioneers, I have had it for years and I think I'm ready to give it up if someone wants it. pm me your address and I will send it to you

[DrPop]

With the deadline fast approaching, I'd like to offer some GPU help to anyone who has a reachable MM goal in SETI for the next 10 days. Just PM me your login and I'm happy to help. I got mine to 15M and then backed off when I realized I couldn't get past that in time.

Like Zombie mentioned above, it was the original "Pre-BOINC" SETI crunching that got me into distributed computing. I was 17 up at university with a shiny new Pentium 200 MMX that I'd put together with all my saved up summer job money, and experiencing my first "real" always connected Internet. The university shared a single T1 pipe to the whole campus and we thought we'd gone to gamer heaven. Those were the days...

[zombie67]

Same offer here.