For those of us participating in SETI@Home, the project's next generation has been a much discussed issue. Berkeley now has a pretty good page full of information posted about it and how the transition will be made.

Here's a snippet:

We will soon release a new version of SETI@home, based on BOINC, a general-purpose platform for distributed computing projects like SETI@home. Switching to SETI@home/BOINC will be easy:

  • Create an account using the SETI@home web site. This will give you an account ID, sent by email. Note: accounts will be created automatically for all current SETI@home users (see below).
  • Download and install the BOINC client program when it becomes available.
  • Uninstall SETI@home.
  • When you first run the BOINC client, enter your SETI@home account ID.

If there are problems, you can reinstall "SETI@home Classic" and continue running it.


You can find the complete article right here.