November 17, 2004 - 20:00 UTC
The upload/download disk array has been well-behaved over the past week, so 
we have moved on to other hardware projects.
We are in the process of moving the alpha/beta test projects over to a new 
linux system. This will allow us to test our whole server suite on a 
platform other than solaris. As well, since the system is completely 
detached from everything else, if our public projects go down, the 
alpha/betas will still remain active (and vice versa).

As part of SETI@home classic ramping down, we are busy cleaning up the old 
on-line database (an intemediary database that doesn't exist in BOINC) as 
well as preparing a new master database that will contain classic and BOINC 
SETI@home data on a system with higher capacity/throughput. We are also 
planning for much more capacity/throughput on the main BOINC database 
(adding hardware raid, a db replica server, etc.).

We are still far from forcing old SETI@home users to move over to BOINC. 
When BOINC is poised to take on 500,000 more users, we'll throw the switch.


-- 

Claude