SETI@HOME in trouble? |
SETI@HOME in trouble? |
Apr 3 2006, 07:34 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 28-March 06 Member No.: 728 |
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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Apr 3 2006, 07:40 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
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 --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Apr 3 2006, 07:52 PM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
This is the mail from Seti@home. They need funding of around $750k to guarantee that they can continue for the next year.
QUOTE (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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Apr 3 2006, 09:57 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 28-March 06 Member No.: 728 |
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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