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    Seti Classic - end of an era

    received by email today...
    SETI@home completes the switch to BOINC
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    SETI@home has completed its transition to BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure
    for Network Computing). BOINC, developed at U.C. Berkeley, is a framework for
    volunteer computing projects like SETI@home.

    Switching your computer to the new "SETI@home/BOINC" is easy. Visit
    http://setiathome.berkeley.edu for instructions. We'll be shutting down the
    "SETI@home Classic" project on December 15
    . The workunit totals of users and
    teams will be frozen at that point, and the final totals will be available on
    the web.

    Scientists at other universities are using BOINC to create volunteer computing
    projects in areas like molecular biology, high-energy physics, and climate
    change study. See http://boinc.berkeley.edu for more information. BOINC lets
    you donate computer time to multiple causes, divided up however you want. For
    example, your PC could spend 40% of its time searching for extraterrestrial
    life (SETI@home), 30% studying climate change (http://climateprediction.net),
    and 30% studying protein folding, design and docking (Rosetta@home:
    http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/).

    You can run SETI@home 100% of the time if you want. But we strongly encourage
    you to participate in other projects. Doing so ensures that when SETI@home is
    down or has no work, your computer stays busy helping other researchers.

    Support SETI@home
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    SETI@home is increasingly reliant on individual donations. Without the support
    of individuals like you the project will not be able to continue. We urge all
    SETI@home participants to make a yearly donation to keep the project going:
    http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php

    ----------------------------------------------------
    Thanks again for your participation in SETI@home.

    The SETI@home Team
    http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
    no mention of a second stats rollover to BOINC, but that was to be expected.

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    I'm sad to see it going. The Seti BOINC screensaver is appalling compared to the Seti Classic screensaver.
    The Einstein and the LHC screensavers are excellent so I run them when I can.

    Bye bye Seti Classic. :cry:

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    same day as FAD...

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    Speaking of screensavers, anyone got a look at Rosetta? They launched an application with graphics recently.

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