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SETI@HOME in trouble?
Bill Thompson
post Apr 3 2006, 07:34 PM
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An acquaintance of mine has said he got an email asking for donations for SETI@HOME’s parent project. Is it true that this project might be shut down or is in risk of being shut-down?
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post Apr 3 2006, 07:40 PM
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The original SETI@home project has been completed. The distributed computing resources that were marshaled by the SETI@home project are now being employed in a new, more general project titled the Berkeley Online Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC).

SETI@home Transitions to BOINC on December 15, 2005
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects...transition.html

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post Apr 3 2006, 07:52 PM
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This is the mail from Seti@home. They need funding of around $750k to guarantee that they can continue for the next year.

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(Donate to SETI@home at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php)

Dear Helvick,

SETI@home needs your help. But before we tell you why - and how you can
help - Dan and I would like to thank you for your role in the SETI@home
success story.

We would first like to thank you for your participation in SETI@home
(http://setiathome.berkeley.edu). During the first SETI@home project you
personally assisted us by searching for extraterrestrial signals in 4331
data chunks and providing 4.996 years of computing time. We want you to
know we appreciate your efforts and the efforts of the other 5.4 million
volunteers who have donated over 2.4 million years of processing time.
When we started, people thought our projection of 100,000 users to be
overly optimistic! You helped us prove that public participation in
scientific computing could work. You also helped us to see that this type
of community effort deserved to be more common. That's why we developed
the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing or BOINC. BOINC has
the benefit of allowing our volunteers the option of sharing their
processing power with other worthy projects in addition to SETI@home.
These projects range from looking for gravitational waves to searching for
cures to diseases.

But all these successes are just a beginning. If you have not visited the
SETI@home website recently, we have successfully transitioned to operating
under BOINC. Because of this, new searches are on the horizon for
SETI@home. We are releasing a new version of our processing software that
increases the sensitivity of our search by a factor of two or more. We are
building and installing a new data recorder at Arecibo. This data recorder
operates in conjunction with a newly installed receiver that has the
capability to observe seven places on the sky simultaneously. It also
increases our sensitivity by another factor of five. These increases in
sensitivity mean that SETI@home will have capability of detecting signals
that are three times more distant than we could before. The region of
space we can search will expand by a factor of thirty. That's thirty times
the chance that your computer will detect that faint signal from another
star.

This increase in capability isn't without cost. Following the "dot com"
bust, the commercial support that kept SETI@home running has largely
disappeared. Because of this loss of support, we can no longer count on
matching funds from the University of California. We are rapidly
approaching the end of what funds we do have. We we will need to raise
about $750,000 to pay for these new capabilities and to keep SETI@home
operating for the next year. Without this support SETI@home may be forced
to shut down (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_budget.php).

We hope that you will consider making a donation to SETI@home
(http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php). You can make a secure
donation by credit card by clicking this link. Instructions for donation
by check or money order are there as well. Unless you specify otherwise,
your donation will be noted by a star icon next to your username on the
SETI@home pages and your username will appear on our list of donors. If
you do not wish to have this recognition you may indicate that as well.
Please be assured that regardless of whether or not you choose to have
your donation be anonymous, SETI@home will not share your address with
other organizations.

You can check on our fundraising progress by visiting our main site at
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

Thank You,

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author and Futurist)
Dan Werthimer (Chief Scientist, SETI@home)

For more information about how to donate:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php
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Bill Thompson
post Apr 3 2006, 09:57 PM
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The email message my friend got was like the one helvick quoted. If $750k is not raised -- and I would imagine they will raise this much -- will SETI@HOME be dropped from BONIC? I remember reading that BONIC is several projects and SETI@HOME makes up about 66 percent of it.

Edited Update:

According to this page, they have raised $175,000 so far
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