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Seti@home Classic will shutdown soon

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Sir Ulli

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We're basically waiting on some new hardware to arrive
which will vastly increase our ability to handle all the
current SETI@home classic users. These items will arrive
early in the new year. Once everything is configured,
everybody's being shifted to BOINC and classic will be
turned off for good.

Of course, with this new hardware, we will also be able to
turn BOINC pending credit back on.

Keeping classic SETI@home running forever will actually
be physically (as well as fiscally) impossible. We need
to cannibalize that hardware for BOINC, or turn it off
as our server closet cannot handle any more heat from the
excess machinery.

- Matt

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/bb/bb3/bboard.cgi?action=display&num=31968

Sir Ulli
 
*makes a frantic rush for a few thousand more WUs to hit 50k before it shuts down*

JigPu
 
thanks for the heads up Sir Ulli :thup:.

i assume we'll get an email from berkeley when "classic" does in fact end.

guess i'm off to research BOINC.

Crunch on!
 
I'm already starting to phase my systems out of classic. I'll be seeing you guys later since I don't have the time to keep SETI running and deal with the technical issues of BOINC.
 
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