PSA: SETI@Home is Hibernating

[Geralt]

For any of the LTT crunchers still on SETI@Home, the project will be entering Hibernation and no more work will be distributed after 31 March.

 

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267

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On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation.

We're doing this for two reasons:

1) Scientifically, we're at the point of diminishing returns; basically, we've analyzed all the data we need for now.

2) It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper.

However, SETI@home is not disappearing. The web site and the message boards will continue to operate. We hope that other UC Berkeley astronomers will find uses for the huge computing capabilities of SETI@home for SETI or related areas like cosmology and pulsar research. If this happens, SETI@home will start distributing work again. We'll keep you posted about this.

If you're currently running SETI@home on your computer, we encourage you to attach to other BOINC-based projects as well. Or use Science United and sign up to do astronomy. You can stay attached to SETI@home, of course, but you won't get any jobs until we find new applications.

We're extremely grateful to all of our volunteers for supporting us in many ways during the past 20 years. Without you there would be no SETI@home. We're excited to finish up our original science project, and we look forward to what comes next.

 

[porina]

Beat me to it. Was just about to post the same.

 

This was my first distributed computing project, even if it wasn't the first one available.

[Geralt]

56 minutes ago, porina said:

Beat me to it. Was just about to post the same.

 

This was my first distributed computing project, even if it wasn't the first one available.

Yep same. Started off with boinc and Seti. Looks like we've really reached the end of the road.

[porina]

1 hour ago, Geralt said:

Started off with boinc and Seti.

S@H was its own dedicated client when it started. Most really didn't like BOINC when it started as it was (and still is) a pain to configure how you like it. Now I find most dedicated clients to be a pain to configure as they're all different. f@h, I'm looking at you! I guess BOINC made more sense as more projects were added to it, but at the start it was just seti and it was overkill.

[Gorgon]

I guess though they searched they didn't find any Intelligence out there