Guess the date S@H-1 ends...?

[saabcaptain]

I am late to the game... and CLI/SETIDriver/SETISpy are all running great and churning 8 WUs per day or so. How long until BOINC is up (I joined the beta and am running it as a *very seldom used* client on a laptop). Clearly BOINC is the future for distrubited computing because the open design will allow multiple projects to run at once, ie. 50% of my CPU to SETI and 50% to cancer research. The big question is when?

When do you think SETI@Home, the first version, will shutdown? I know it is nothing but a guess but do you think January? Maybe later spring? Or will the beta test of BOINC continue to move slowly and perhaps push into summer? I am excited to get in on the "ground floor" of a new DC project and while SETI@Home-1 coming to an end will be sad, BOINC looks tempting to me as it fufills my need to churn non-mainstream science (SETI) while also doing medical science, something I want to become involved with.

Thanks!

 

[conjur]

4-30-04

<shrug>

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Do we win a prize if we guess correctly since nothing is set in stone as of yet?

 

[saabcaptain]

it's all in fun...

i know it's all a guess

 

[soni]

2004-4-1

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Last day of March 2004

 

[dxkj]

8/25/2004

 

[RaySun2Be]

02-29-2004

 

[TofBnT]

summer 2004

 

[compudog]

3-31-2004

 

[PraetorianGuards]

Late March 04

 

[Orange Kid]

Never

 

[Assimilator1]

lol!

15/2/03 (UK date format)

If I'm right TaBoo has got its work cut out for it!:Q

 

[titanmiller]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
lol!

15/2/03 (UK date format)

Weird.



My guess: 6/5/04

 

[whitelight]

04/04/04

 

[Mitzi]

31/05/04

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: whitelight
04/04/04

lol ,darn American dates are confusing! ,so is that April or April then?

Titanmiller
day/month/year makes sense

 

[D347h]

31 April 2004

 

[Mitzi]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: whitelight
04/04/04

lol ,darn American dates are confusing! ,so is that April or April then?

Titanmiller
day/month/year makes sense

Yeah...different date formats suck!

When you see 02/28/03 on a web page its pretty obvious that the date is 28th Feb but when its date is something like 05/04/03 you wonder if its American format '4th May' or British '5th April'..what format do other countries use?

<-- worries about going over to the States next year and having to figure out US Imperial measurements!

 

[Assimilator1]

lol ,going a bit OT here I think

 

[Mitzi]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
lol ,going a bit OT here I think

My bad

 

[zodder]

I'm guessing it will end when I have 99,999 wus completed.

 

[Rattledagger]

Well, actually depends that you're putting into the "end", since BOINC will atleast initially crunch seti1-wu.

But anyway, they should fix all important BOINC-bugs & finnish making a real validator, and afterwards hopefully use a month to fine-tune benchmarks/crediting... So I wouldn't expect a release before in February 2004.
Afterwards, it really depends on if they gives an extra month to crunch after stopping delivering wu or not, but if they do it should be 30.04.2004 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Of course, 17.05.2004 is 5th anniversary from official launch, so this can also be the cut-off-date.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yeah 17/5/04 would be a good date

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
lol!

15/2/03 (UK date format)

If I'm right TaBoo has got its work cut out for it!:Q

Uhm, this can't be correct atleast, since we're still crunching seti1.

Or are you by chance meaning 2103.