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 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...
We don't have an exact timetable yet, but the transition will be staged as follows:
- We will make a snapshot of SETI@home user information (accounts, teams, profiles) and will use it to initialize the SETI@home/BOINC database. We will then launch the SETI@home/BOINC project.
- Over the next month or so we will send email to all SETI@home users, giving them their new account IDs and recommending that they switch to BOINC. During this period you can continue to run the current SETI@home, and your results will be recorded and used. New SETI@home accounts and team changes can be made, but will not be carried over to BOINC.
- Once SETI@home/BOINC is stable, and versions are available for most platforms, we will turn off the current SETI@home server. At this point you will need to switch to SETI@home/BOINC...
All current SETI@home teams, and their membership, will be copied over to SETI@home/BOINC. The work totals for teams will also start from zero.