I have a new windows xp. I downloaded BOINC today with the hope of accessing SETI@ Home. However, for the past five hours, when I try to attach the SETI program using the BOINC manager, it keeps saying it is temporarily unavailable. Is there something wrong with it?

From the home web page of SETI@home: Our database is temporarily offline. Many website functions are not available. Please try again later. Tuesday every week is their maintenance day. for some reason it looks like SETI@home maintenance day will stretch into Wednesday.

SETI@home servers seem to be back on line as of this posting

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html

Still down here. :(

2/28/2010 11:45:07 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/28/2010 11:45:09 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
2/28/2010 11:45:11 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)

They are not down, just a bit busy. Be patient and retry... :-)

Gruß,
Gundolf

It's been like this for a week straight, and still same today.

Currently they have the weekly outage and the error message should differ.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Still down. Same error:

3/4/2010 9:57:22 PM SETI@home Resetting project
3/4/2010 9:57:48 PM SETI@home work fetch resumed by user
3/4/2010 9:57:49 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
3/4/2010 9:57:49 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
3/4/2010 9:57:51 PM SETI@home Resetting project
3/4/2010 9:57:54 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
3/4/2010 9:57:54 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
3/4/2010 9:57:54 PM SETI@home update requested by user
3/4/2010 9:57:55 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
3/4/2010 9:57:56 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
3/4/2010 9:57:59 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)

Update: Updated to Bonic Manager version 6.10.36 and reset seti and now its working fine. :) Finally! I had tried this with 6.10.35 and not luck.

So either something related to seti was fixed in .36 or servers finally just now came back online.

This is getting old really quick!!

3/18/2010 1:48:14 PM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)

Been 3 days and still can not get any jobs on any computer. Resetting project is of no help.

Close to giving up on SETI and staying 100% with Docking.

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Have you posted about this on the SETI site?

Or there's this post on SETI's problems.

Well finally was able to grab GPU tasks, but still none for CPU.