"Louis Holleman" <louis@holleman.demon.nl> wrote in message news:q498r01bem90hjt5q9j596u9lusjvq4crr@4ax.com...

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 17:29:56 GMT, Joe K <"Joe K"@myhome.computer>
wrote:

Is there a definite date when SETI Classic will end?

I've read somewhere they "would throw the switch" at half a million
BOINC-crunchers....   whenever they reach that figure. For now I'm
still keeping 2 machines on classic till I hit the 2,000 mark, the
other 2 are crunching for BOINC already. I expect to have all 4
running for BOINC/Seti by the end of January 2005

Happy crunching!

Louis

This is the entire quote from the SETI BOINC site's technical news section. What they said was that they will throw the switch when they think they can handle 500,000 users, not when they reach 500,000 users.

"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."