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Don Backer has passed away.

Don Backer, Berkeley professor and director of the Allen Telescope Array, passed away on Sunday, July 25th. Don was a very important contributor to radio astronomy and to the study of pulsars. He will be missed.

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The project down due to a network problem.

We have lost connectivity somewhere between our two routers. One of these routers is located at the Space Sciences Lab and the other at the Peering And Internet eXchange (PAIX) in Palo Alto. Until we get this problem cleared up we cannot distribute new work.

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jobs limit thread

Here is a thread for information and discussion about the jobs per host limit.

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New Outage Schedule

Starting next week our servers will be turned off for several days a week – initially, Tuesday through Thursday. This will allow us to devote more time to scientific development.

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Italian IRC channel

The IRC channel #boinc-it on irc.freenode.net has been created for discussion of BOINC and SETI@home in Italian.

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Video on making a desktop supercomputer

Check out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer.

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Video on making a desktop supercomputer

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Designer of the Arecibo telescope has passed away.

William E. Gordon , the designer of the Arecibo radio telescope, has passed away at the age of 92.

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Italian radio interview

Gianni Urso is interviewed by Bruno Moretti Turri on radio astronomy, SETI@home, and BOINC distributed computing (31 min., in Italian)

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We started sending out our annual year-end donation drive mass e-mail

We started sending out our annual year-end donation drive mass e-mail. The process could take days

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SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela has posted an FAQ and comments about the forced resignation at Higley Unified School District in Arizona

SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela has posted an FAQ and comments about the forced resignation at Higley Unified School District in Arizona

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SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela has posted an FAQ and comments about the forced resignation at Higley Unified School District in Arizona

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