June 6, 2007 SETI@home enhanced 5.20 beta is released for Windows. Hopefully this will solve many problems and run a bit faster than 5.17
June 1, 2007 I've extended deadlines for astropulse work units. Believe the dates on the web site. The ones in your BOINC app may be wrong.
May 30, 2007 We're back online and we have a working Astropulse validator. Credit is being granted even
May 22, 2007 Beta is offline until we can get a new build of the BOINC server code working.
May 17, 2007 With all the server changes at SETI@home, it took a while to get beta back up and running. Work should be flowing again.
February 16, 2007 If you check my latest post in the SETI@home staff blog, you'll see that I've figured out the cause of the large number of triplets in work units. I don't want to make more workunit until I've built a splitter with the fix. We'll probably run out of work before that happens. Sorry.
February 8, 2007 I'm updating the server code in hopes of solving some of the problems we are having. Server will be down until I'm done
December 14, 2006 Getting the multibeam splitter online only took 2 more days than I thought it would. But we're back! The new multbeam data is flowing.
December 13, 2006 Some bad work units went out today. Feel free to reset the project or cancel any workunits that slow down your machine or use up all of your memory
December 10, 2006 In case you've noticed that you aren't getting work, the splitters are off until December 12 in order to let the work and assimilation queues drain before we make the database changes necessary to support the multibeam splitter.
October 31, 2006 We are trying to identify the cause of the 'software problem' that the server is reporting. Might not get back up until tomorrow afternoon. Sorry....
October 14, 2006 We are having server problems that result in an error when results are uploaded. We're trying to identify the cause now.
October 5, 2006 We're back up and running.
October 5, 2006 Even though the main project is back up, we're still having problems with the beta database. I hope to have them resolved tonight or tomorrow.
October 3, 2006 The servers are temporarily down while the beta database is being transferred to a new server.
August 3, 2006 Enhanced 5.17 is released for Solaris, Windows, and MacOS. Hopefully will have linux build tomorrow.
May 31, 2006 We've been out of work in the beta project due to a problem relating to the SETI@home outage. This problem has been fixed. New work should be flowing soon.
May 11, 2006 Enhanced 5.13 is released for MacOS X which should solve the problems when running on MacOS 10.3.8 or earlier. Enhanced 5.14 for Windows should update CPU time even if the timer thread fails to start.
May 8, 2006 Now that enhanced has been released we can get back to work on Astropulse. I hope to have new Astropulse applications and workunits out in the next few weeks. In the meantime we will continue to distribute enhanced work.
April 26, 2006 A problem last night caused results to be marked with a validate error and no new work to be created. The problem has been fixed and the results have been reset for validation.
April 24, 2006 Enhanced 5.12 is release. The progress bar has been rebalanced, and Windows clients should report proper debugging info for crashes. The credit per FLOP has been decreased to match the main project. No need to reset the project or abort current computations.
April 3, 2006 If you are getting checksum errors on banner509.jpg, it's likely they are caused by your spam blocking software. I was stupid in choosing to put "banner" in the name of this file. I'll choose a better name in future revisions.
March 31, 2006 SETI@home enhanced 5.09 is released for many platforms
March 29, 2006 SETI@home enhanced 5.08 for Windows is released. It should solve the graphics problem and (maybe) the speed problems.
March 29, 2006 The fix is taking longer than expected. I hope to have something ready by the end of today's database outage.
March 27, 2006 Had to bring the project down due to some server side bugs. Should be back up tomorrow.
March 21, 2006 Happy (northern hemisphere) spring! Happy (southern hemisphere) fall! Enhanced 5.07 has been released for Linux and Windows. No need to reset projects or abort work units.
March 16, 2006 If you are having difficulties returning results or getting work, it may be due to using the wrong URL to access the project. The correct URL for the SETI@home beta is http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta
March 4, 2006 We've finally released version 5.06 for everything but Solaris/SPARC. It should be compatible with 5.05, so you don't need to abort results or reset your project. It'll probably be several hours before the workunit queue gets to the point where 5.06 will be sent.
January 31, 2006 We've released SETI@home Enhanced version 5.05. The results will probably differ from 5.02, so I've cancelled outstanding workunits and am updating credits. It'll probably take a few days for credits to catch up.
January 9, 2006 We've finally tracked down the problems with SETI@home Enhanced 5.0's relationship with the server. SETI@home 5.02 should now work.
January 4, 2006 Happy New Year! SETI@home Enhanced 5.0 is released (and will go to public if no problems show up). Still no graphics on Linux due to dynamic symbols not being properly exported. If any Linux hackers want to take a whack at it, please do.
December 14, 2005 I've added the platforms x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and sparc-sun-solaris to our database. The sparc-sun-solaris platform will eventually supplant sparc-sun-solaris2.7. The x86_64 platform currently serves the same binary as i686-pc-linux-gnu
December 5, 2005 Finally I have gotten around to building a SETI@home enhanced client for MacOS X. Please let me know if there are any problems.
December 5, 2005 A problem with the splitter led to a low CPU bound on workunits created last week. I'm cancelling them and restarting the splitters.
December 2, 2005 SETI@home enhanced version 4.11 has been released. I hope this will fix the problems with pre-Pentium II processors. I also hope this will be the last beta of setiathome_enhanced. On to Astropulse!
September 30, 2005 SETI@home enhanced version 4.07 has been released. I'll be generating
fresh workunits to go with it. This will entail cancelling existing
workunits and crediting those that didn't validate.
August 18, 2005 I finally figured out how to give credit for workunits that got an error. The credit has been added to you account, and shows in the view of the individual results, but doesn't show in the result lists (because list generator checks the error state before displaying the granted credit)
July 26, 2005 In case you were wondering, yes, you will be getting credit for all those results you sent that got an error or failed to validate. Now if I could just figure out how to do it, I'd be set....
July 19, 2005 Some bad workunits were created yesterday. If you got one, setiathome_enhanced will attempt to use 1GB or so memory and the run time will stretch into the centuries. I've invalidated the work units and restarted the splitters. If you got one of these workunits, you'll know it. Just abort it, or reset the project.
July 13, 2005 Turns out I blamed FFTW when I should have blamed myself. At some point SSE had been turned on in the Visual Studio project. Version 4.04 should now work on non-SSE machines
July 12, 2005 We're back up after the power outage. Version 4.03 of SETI@home Enhanced is available for Windows. Yesterday, I mistakenly said that Tetsuji Rai's optimized client used SSE. It doesn't, so you should be able to use it on non-SSE machines
July 11, 2005 We're having problems reported running the Windows client on older
machines (those without SSE capability). I was under the apparently
mistaken impression that FFTW checks at run-time to see whether SSE is
avaliable. I will be compiling a 4.03
version today that will not include SSE in the FFTW Library. Until I
find a way to include both SSE and non-SSE together, we'll need to use
the non-SSE version.
July 08, 2005 Outage Notice. The long awaited new main power breaker for
Space Sciences Lab has arrived and a long power outage
is needed to install and test it. SETI@home will
be offline for 17 hours or so beginning this coming Monday,
July 11 at 22:00 UTC.
June 27, 2005 We're seeing a conflict with the way that the beta (which is using a newer BOINC version than setiathome) is interacting with the public project. We've turned off the beta until we can get the SETI@home boinc software updated.
June 26, 2005 We've found a bug in the way that the enhanced client chooses when to search for Gaussians and Pulses. We'll be distributing a modified application (version 4.01 early this week. Also in the new version, Windows will use the FFTW library for computing FFTs.
June 23, 2005 The project is down temporarily to rebuild some server components.
June 15, 2005 Results were being sent to the setiathome upload handler. We've fixed the problem and are regenerating work units. You may want to reset your projects.
June 15, 2005 Validator is failing all workunits. Message boards not yet up. Only solaris and windows applications are currently being distributed