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Son Goku
01-04-05, 12:31 AM
OK, SETI (the new SETI project) is, well down...

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

On their main page for it, they're saying they're down for database updates, but they initially said they'd be down for an hour. This was 3:15 pm this afternoon. My client has been unsucessfully trying to connect to them ever since (after each defered period of time) and it's left a log about yoo long by now). I've got about 5 work units left in the queue, assuming they get it back up soon enough.

OK, so over to some other projects:

Einstein@home indicated they were about ready to go live a week ago. The website for the project is now down, and has been down all day.

Predictor@home, is apperently up, but account creation is closed till mid January.

Umm, do these peeps want some work done for them? :D My client has work for now, but it will run out of work before tomarrow (only keep about 1 days work in the queue, as if one keeps too much in there, there are deadlines in returning units...something we all ran into with peeps keeping 14 day work queues and what not and it needs 3 results from 3 seperate comps returned to validate and give anyone credit).

ynnek
01-04-05, 12:35 AM
whatever happeend to that distributed project to crack encryption methods... and gave awards out to the lucky person that managed to stuble upon the right one?

Son Goku
01-04-05, 12:43 AM
Haven't heard about that one in a long time... Was it ever taken down, or the encryption already sucessfully cracked perhaps?

SETI being down wouldn't be so bad if I could get to other projects. One of the benefits with this new platform of theirs is supposed to be that multiple projects can be setup on it (BOINC is also open source) so one can sign up for multiple projects and allocate a percentage of CPU time to each project). AKA with one piece of software a user can select multiple projects to help out with, and what priority to give each.

If one project goes down or runs outa work, the computer can keep itself busy with something else. Fine in theory, though today multiple projects seem to have all gone awry or aren't yet open to the public yet...