haven't checked these boards since my last post and was quite surprised by the (very localized) firestorm I created with the word "forced" as in..

..soon all SETI@home users will be forced to upgrade to the new version.

Apparently I was a tad bit glib. It seems some of you were turned off by the word "forced." Fair enough - I should have said "required to upgrade to the new version if you wish to continue participating in our project." I apologize for the misleading sentiment.

By the way, we already have over 65,000 people using the new version without being forced.. I mean.. required to upgrade. Want to get a head start? See:

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

- Matt - SETI@home

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/bb/bb3/bboard.cgi?action=viewthread&num=33089

The way the "grand migration" will work is this:

1. We'll get all servers in place for BOINC that we believe can handle the load
of 500,000 new users. We're talkin' various web servers, data servers,
databases, etc.. This is happening right now.

2. We'll send out a mass e-mail asking all old SETI@home users (active or
otherwise) to consider moving over to BOINC. As well, we'll post information on
the home page about transferring to BOINC. In these e-mails/posts we'll have a
clear cut-off date (probably at least a month in the future, if not two) when
SETI@home classic will stop working altogether.

3. Before turning off the old databases for SETI@home, we'll generate one final
set of stats pages which will be kept on-line indefinitely (no reason to ever
take them down - they'll take up relatively little disk space and web server
bandwidth).

Just a note about this final step. I won't promise anything, but what I would
like to do before this is take one massive sweep through all users in the
classic SETI@home database and check them for nefarious activity (i.e.
cheating). It's hard to do this effectively when the database is highly active.
But when it is quiescent I'll go to town, removing all users who show any signs
of artificially inflating their stats.

- Matt

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli S@h Berkeley's Staff Friends Club m7 ©

i think that 50 Percent of this ore more, we will never see again here at BOINC

http://www.setiatwork.com/stats/user/topusers.cgi

so it is good to go to BOINBC I think...

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli S@h Berkeley's Staff Friends Club m7 ©

Sir Ulli check your Mail...

---

---

Silly question: will this last sync with the SETI@Home statistics finally show the right number of completed WUs?
I just tried BOINC a couple of days ago and my account shows the statistics for April or May 2004. This is a bit unfortunate for my case, since starting with August I got a better machine and almost doubled the speed of processing.

What would happen if I switch to BOINC for good today, when there is still this big discrepancy between the WU number showing in my BOINC account vs. my old SETI@Home account?

Jean

---

>
> Silly question: will this last sync with the SETI@Home statistics finally show
> the right number of completed WUs?
> I just tried BOINC a couple of days ago and my account shows the statistics
> for April or May 2004. This is a bit unfortunate for my case, since starting
> with August I got a better machine and almost doubled the speed of
> processing.
>
> What would happen if I switch to BOINC for good today, when there is still
> this big discrepancy between the WU number showing in my BOINC account vs. my
> old SETI@Home account?
>
> Jean
>


the rumours are, that as soon as seti classic is shut down, there will be one final snapshot of the classic amount of wus. this final number of wus would then appear in your boinc account.

---

> the rumours are, that as soon as seti classic is shut down, there will be one
> final snapshot of the classic amount of wus. this final number of wus would
> then appear in your boinc account.

And what about the other question: if I start using BOINC now with the statistics as they are today, wouldn't all the work from now on overlap with what it was done since Apr/May 2004?

J.

---

> And what about the other question: if I start using BOINC now with the
> statistics as they are today, wouldn't all the work from now on overlap with
> what it was done since Apr/May 2004?

No.

Two separate projects ...

---