SETI@home shutting down.

InceptionHosting

As long as I have been online and can remember this was a thing, feels odd that it will not be a thing any more.

Mr_Tom

I saw this the other day.

I used to run SETI@home years ago, on an old Cyrix 333

mfs

It's odd. Anyway. If this shutdown may shift some tiny resources to projects like Rosetta or folding@home, I'd say it's nice.

InceptionHosting

@Mr_Tom said:
I saw this the other day.

I used to run SETI@home years ago, on an old Cyrix 333

I think I first ran it on a PII 233MMX

yoursunny

I've been running SETI@home since 2006, on my laptop, BeagleBone Black, and Android phones.
Now what am I going to do with all the spare CPU power?
If I mine coins, I'll have to pay taxes.

vyas

Goodbye ET

Amitz

Error 404 - Aliens not found.

Neoon

@Amitz said:

Error 404 - Aliens not found.

deank

I was crunching diehard few decades ago for WCG which is in the same category as Seti.

Sure brings back good and bad memories.

vbloods

ALIENS LOL .

WSS

Wow. Another long-timer gone.

lazyt

I've ran it for so long it'll feel like part of me is missing.

havoc

@yoursunny said: Now what am I going to do with all the spare CPU power?

Highly recommend checking out BOINC instead, and among that the World Community Grid project. Goes towards a blend of good stuff - medical cures, clean energy etc.

For phones and tablets there is also Dreamlab - vodafone sponsored project - crunches similar stuff while your phone is charging overnight.

You can also deploy BOINC in docker form...though that takes some doing. Been meaning to type up a post on that.

terrorgen

I am glad to hear that they shutdown because they are done processing all the collected data, not because of lack of funding.

Janevski

They don't want us to know the truth.

tgl

the good news is pornhub is continuing to grow

aRNoLD

they cannot afford the hard disks or the aliens are not happy with their work development?

Mason

SETI may be shutting down, but if anyone has spare computing power and wants to donate their resources towards a worthy cause, Folding@home is taking up the COVID19/SARS-COV-2 fight.

https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/

Folding@home is very similar to SETI, in that it's using volunteered and distributed computing power, but this project is aimed at researching protein folding in order to find cures and potential treatments for common diseases and viruses. Here's some more info on what exactly Folding@home is all about and the objectives of the project - https://foldingathome.org/diseases/.

saibal

They had a project running for Ebola too. Hopefully more people donate their CPU cycles to this than mine shitcoins.

Rahul

@Neoon said:

@Amitz said:

Error 404 - Aliens not found.

Is that you, @billyw ?

billyw

@Rahul said:

@Neoon said:

@Amitz said:

Error 404 - Aliens not found.

Is that you, @billyw ?

How did you find out Are you one of those 'The Truth is Out There' ppl LOL