John wrote:

A quote from today's SETI-BOINC home web site ...

October 10, 2005 - 23:30 UTC Last week we finished the first phase of the science "migration." What

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with BOINC data. We will soon be able to shut down the classic master
science database, ...

Is this the first real confirmation of the nearing closure of 6.5 years
of Classic?

That is certainly another step along Berkeley's very careful plan.

With the servers hardware problems for Boinc-s@h now cleared, hopefully they can now concentrate more on the s@h-classic -> boinc migration. Looks like we might see the full hand-over before Christmas /this/ /year/ :-O


Aside: There's now some truly ferocious optimisation and debug work being done on the Boinc s@h client. Even some very low level stuff to speed up the maths for the search algorithm. The speedups are looking VERY GOOD!

(And this is a good example of how open source peer review works well. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar )

Happy crunchin',
Martin