BOINC用户调查:由于软件有漏洞调查项目'Which are the most important factors when you decide whether to participate in a BOINC project?'的答案记录出现故障。请重新填表。对此引起的不便我们表示歉意.
问题的意思是：促使您参与某一使用BOINC平台的项目的主要原因是？
[ Last edited by Grё@thΙll on 2006-7-26 at 12:29 ] July 28, 2006
Spread the word about SETI@home - send email to your friends and family.
请向您的朋友和家人宣传SETI！ 经常宣传，可参加的人不多，最可气的一人是我哥哥，算半天不算了！ 已经是说客一个了,不过理睬的人实在太少.
September 8, 2006
We ran out of work to send out due to our science database going down. More details in Technical News.因为科学数据库已经停机，所以目前没有任务包可以下载，详情请看技术新闻。
// Sun公司捐赠了一台新服务器！然后在新旧服务器过渡过程中出了点问题。
September 11, 2006
Outage update: Though we moved a bulk of the data onto the new science database server over the weekend, there is still plenty to do before we can start using this new server. In the meantime, we may be able to start creating new work to send out later today.虽然我们在周末已经将相当多的数据都迁移到了新数据库服务器中上，但在开始使用这个新服务器之前仍有许多工作要做。有可能今天晚些时候就可以开始生成新的任务包了。
September 12, 2006
If you're interested in donating time - rather than computing power - to help Astronomical research, check out Clickworkers (from NASA Ames Research Center) and Stardust@home (from UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab).如果你更有兴趣贡献时间而不是计算力来帮助天文学研究，请看一看NASA艾姆斯研究中心的Clickworkers项目和柏克利空间科学实验室的Stardust@home项目。
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ SETI版主们近来有点懒了，一个多月里的服务器新闻都没有及时翻译，对不了解行情又不懂英文的新手们加入都很不利。 SETI的墙纸 背景是我们熟悉的猎户座星云。
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/user_images/swp2.jpg
大意:我们是谁？我们发现我们住在属于一颗单调的恒星那毫不起眼的行星上，迷失在银河中，隐藏在宇宙中某个被遗忘的角落里，那里有着比人数要多得多的星系。 October 25, 2006 - 19:00 UTC
We're currently starting some minor database testing to diagnose recent issues (see previous note below). Namely, we're purging all the finished results from the database as soon as they are complete, instead of letting them linger around for at least a day. This means you won't be able to see completed results on your account page as they will disappear from our user database as soon as the data is assimilated into our science database. This condition is only aesthetic and will be temporary. The hope is that we don't have any "orphaned" results in our database and cleaning out all the rows that are spoken for will help determine this.
我们现在已经开始着手建立一些小型数据库，以诊断最近发布的消息。 也就是说，只要数据库中已经完成的结果完整，我们就不会让它在数据库中多留一天。而是马上把他们清除掉。这样，用户就无法从他们的帐户中看到完整的结果了。因为只要那些数据进入了我们的数据库，就会立刻消失。这种状况是短暂的，如昙花一现。我们希望的是数据库中没有零散的结果。 November 29, 2006 - 19:00 UTC
Last night we had a blip of an outage due to our data download server losing its mount of the file server holding the workunits. This was strictly a random failure, and it worked itself out on its own. We saw similar behavior back when we had a heavier load on the entire system. We released the enhanced client which greatly reduced the rate of workunit/result exchange and therefore reduced the occurrence of these load-related problems. Thanks to Moore's Law and an ever-increasing user base, we'll need to address this issue sooner than later.
28是的停机是由系统负担过重导致的，在发布了Enhanced程序后，系统负担已经减轻不少，但由于大家的机器越来越强，用户的数目也越来越多，这个问题也越发严重。
The other lingering, randomly-occurring problem has to do with "rough periods" accessing the database (see eariler tech news items for details). Basically, what's going on is this: every 24 hours or so a process dumps all useful user/host/team stats to XML files which other sites can upload and generate leader boards, graphs, etc. These tables have continually grown in size, and apparently when this process runs they can knock the result table out of memory. The feeder process, which keeps a healthy queue of available work to send out to users, needs the result table in memory or else a sub-second query to select more work becomes a multi-minute query to read the whole result table back into memory from disk. We're looking into making these queries more efficient.
项目每天要把所有用户主机和团队的统计信息导出到XML文件，以供各个统计网站使用，这个过程也越来越耗费系统资源。我们正在考虑改进相关的查询操作。
We're also looking at setting up a new BOINC database server (remember that the BOINC database is separate for the SETI@home-specific science database which already is on a new server and working well). Recently Intel donated several pieces of hardware to us, including a quad dual-core Xeon processor system (i.e. 8 3GHz processors total). We're currently working out some system quirks, but when we begin trusting it we'll make this our master BOINC database server, and the current one will be a replica. This will provide an immediate backup if needed, and remove the necessity for the weekly outages. More to come on that. Another recently Intel system has already been set up and is being used as a backend science CPU server (and to read new data from hard drives sent up from Arecibo).
感谢Intel最近又捐赠了一台牛机器（4芯8核）！
The last of the known never-touched classic data tapes has been read last week and is in the splitter queue. Next we will start reading tapes that have gone through the pipeline in some form or another, but for some reason never made it into our master database. Possible reasons include: bad data (but hopefully not), a tape drive failure that caused the tapes to remain unread (surprisingly more common than you'd think), poor initial analysis or database corruption leading to failure during redundancy checking. So don't be upset when tapes from the late 90's appear on the queue. Data from 1998 is worth the same as data taken in 2006. The ETs we are looking for come from light years away. A few years won't make any difference when looking for signals consistently repeating over time.
以前SETI Classic时代储存原始观测数据的磁带中最后一卷从未读过的也在上星期进入了任务队列，接下来我们将重新检查部分之前已经读过的磁带，这些磁带由于各种原因还没有进入过任务队列。如果你看到你计算的任务包是来自1998年，不要感到泄气，这些数据和2006的数据同样有意义。我们要寻找的ET至少也来自于数个光年之外，采集数据的时间相差几年并没有什么不同。 能力有限，有错请多多包涵~~~~~~
December 4, 2006
BOINC's new Online Help system lets you get help from volunteers by talking with them using Skype. Volunteers speak several languages.
SETI@home Classic users: you can now transfer your workunit totals to your SETI@home/BOINC account, even if you lost your Classic password.
2006年12月4日
新的 BOINC 帮助系统可以使您通过 Skype （一种网络电话软件）从志愿者那里得到帮助，这些志愿者会说多种语言（希望包括汉语）
对 SETI@home Classic 用户：即使您忘记了在 SETI@home Classic 中的密码，您仍然可以将您在 SETI@home Classic 中完成的任务数量转移到 BOINC 的 SETI@home 账号中 February 20, 2007
There will be an outage tomorrow (February 21st) starting around 17:00 UTC for network upgrades. If all goes well, we will only be offline for about an hour.
为进行网络升级,明天(2月21日)17:00左右将有一次断线.如果一切顺利的话我们只需要断线约一小时.
February 21, 2007
Yet another reason to run SETI@home - it can help recover stolen laptops.运行SETI的又一个好处：可以用来帮助寻找丢失的笔记本电脑：）
详细请看：http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_aliens_laptop 这里有个中文的版本：
http://science.solidot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/0340215
matrix 写道 "加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校太空科学实验室开发的SETI@home是一种分布式计算客户端，目的是寻找ET，全世界注册的志愿者超过了100万。它利用志愿者电脑空闲时在屏幕保护模式下计算来自波多黎各天文台收集的无线电讯号，到现在为止还没找到任何外星人，却找到了一台丢失的笔记本电脑。
James Melin，政府部门的软件工程师，家里的7台电脑上安装了SETI@home，并周期性的连接到服务器，一旦发生变化，服务器都会把IP地址记录下来并存放到数据库，任何运行SETI软件的使用者都可以浏览。不久前他妻子的笔记本在家中失窃，他妻子是位作家，非常担心小偷会将电脑上储存的剧本和小说删除。于是Melin开始检查SETI@home上的数据库，那台丢失的笔记本可能会将改变的IP地址递交到服务器。确实如此，那台笔记本在一周内登记了三次，Melin将IP地址报告警察局，几天内警察就找到了这台电脑并还给了Melin。他的妻子Melinda Kimberly高兴的说“我知道Geek会成为一个好丈夫。这件事就像不可能完成任务（Mission: Impossible）He's a genius - my hero。”
