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Every Tuesday to Thursday, SETI@Home will be down until further notice. This is what they tell us, but what happens at SETI?

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. In addition to gaining developer time, we will take advantage of public server outages to run the science servers at full bore, getting all of the database resources. So science production, as well as science development, will increase.

Matt Lebofsky, Project Administrator SETI@home

This is how SETI informs us at their Forum. A meagre communiqué. And a lot of comments (Have a look at them here ). At least, this is a planned outage, not a sudden one as they had in the past, and they are telling us in advance. But why three full days every week? They're not telling, but we can guess:

• They have a huge database and databases tend to go unstable after time, the bigger the more likely.
• They will have to get rid of old data that has been analyzed and is blogging up space.
• Updates are due, both on OS and on software.
• Things have to be tested thoroghly and step-by step.

Just a few thought, we don't know for sure what's going on, keep your fingers crossed. Another few thoughts on what's going on can be found on the forum here. And then, if SETI@Home is down, there's lots of other projects that have work for you to crunch, just look around.

Good luck, Matt