Apart from the obvious problems that Berkley are having with their servers 
and power, isn't there another problem that Seti has, given that it is 
clearly the most popular Distributed Computing project.

The hardware they have can clearly only just about cope with the number of 
users - thus when something goes wrong - i.e. a power surge takes things 
down temporarily, they are completely overwhelmed when they come back online 
with the number of people trying to send data in - which in turn, either 
fouls up the server again, or delays users sending their data in.

In this context, and for the good of Distributed Computing and Seti in 
particular and science in general, is it not better that the number of seti 
users is reduced - allowing more data to be returned more successfully and 
the Berkely to catch up with the backlog, completing the move to Boinc.

It's not that we would be asking people to move off DC projects completely - 
there are plenty of other projects that could use the computer power, just 
that we give Seti a breathing space.

In this context, and because of the frustration of having a stalled 
screensaver, after over 4 years with Seti, and 1970 processed unites, I've 
moved to Einstein@Home and the Boinc project. When Seti's better, I'll 
probably make it one of my other boinc projects, but I think it needs some 
space right now!

Cheers

PR

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