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    Orbit@Home coming back soon!

    January 16, 2008
    We have received the grant money from NASA. Part of this money will be used soon to acquire a dedicated server, and by February 2008 the new server should be up and running. Between now and then, not much will happen, but expect a period of about a week during the which orbit@home will be down because of the server transition. For several reasons, we're also debating the possibility to start with a fresh installation of BOINC, that would thus require a new registration by all the users. We expect to start to develop actively this project in March 2008. Thanks for waiting for such a long time, and see you then.
    http://orbit.psi.edu/

    If anyone doesn't remember anymore what Orbit@Home is, it is a project that aims to keep track of the near-earth objects and their trajectories at all times, to prevent us for example from being hit by a meteor without warning.

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    jeesh, I hope NASA is already doing that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mitchellds View Post
    jeesh, I hope NASA is already doing that.
    LOL, I hope they are too...

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    I think they are. But you know how it is, they alone can only do so much.
    If I'm not mistaken it's in the "Armaggeddon" movie with Bruce Willis, where there's a guy from NASA that says that their budget only allows them to keep track of about 4% of the sky.

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    And it's a big sky!!
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    Orbit@Home has a new project server:

    http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/

    If you had an account on the old server, it is gone as the database wasn't migrated to the new server.

    Team page:

    http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/team_display.php?teamid=12

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    Rejoined. Finally, something will be going on over there.

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    Thanks for the heads-up. Mine's fixed.
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    Orbit@Home coming back soon!

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