| Threads | Posts | Author | Views | Last post |
|---|
 | Update
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1 |
SETI News |
6307 |
17 Feb 2005 |
| The RAID resync is complete and the project is up, although
the data server is a bit overwhelmed at the moment
|
1 |
SETI News |
6866 |
15 Feb 2005 |
| We have moved the primary database service over to the the new system.
See Technical News.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6196 |
10 Feb 2005 |
| The initial migration of the database to the new server is complete.
Tomorrow we will make this new server a database replica
|
1 |
SETI News |
6693 |
7 Feb 2005 |
| We will restart the database migration to the new hardware
Monday, February 7, at 18:00 UT
|
1 |
SETI News |
6733 |
4 Feb 2005 |
| The project was offline most of the day today due to a
database problem.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6488 |
3 Feb 2005 |
| We have created a new
SETI@home bookstore
in partnership with Alibris.com.
Find great books, read about science (fact and fiction),
and benefit SETI@home!
|
1 |
SETI News |
7174 |
1 Feb 2005 |
| The DB migration stopped when the new server crashed.
See Technical News.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6495 |
31 Jan 2005 |
| We will begin the migration to the new hardware at 19:00
UT tomorrow, 1/31
|
1 |
SETI News |
6241 |
30 Jan 2005 |
| We have turned on db_purge in preparation for the DB
migration to the new hardware
|
1 |
SETI News |
6598 |
28 Jan 2005 |
| Due to recent database problems, we had to turn off
XML stats generation for the time being.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6208 |
26 Jan 2005 |
| We're looking for a Certificate of Appreciation
design based on the new SETI@home logo.
If you know PHP and do graphic design,
maybe you can help.
|
1 |
SETI News |
8081 |
20 Jan 2005 |
| The validation backlog is slowly clearing
|
1 |
SETI News |
6569 |
6 Jan 2005 |
| We are still running a backlog of results waiting to be validated
and are looking into it.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6749 |
4 Jan 2005 |
| The waiting for validation/transition counts on the
server status page are disabled
until we diagnose a recent DB slowdown.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6351 |
31 Dec 2004 |
| We have decided to send out 4 copies of each workunit
and use a quorum size of 3 for validation.
Validation should be quick because a single result in error
will not delay reaching a quorum.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6907 |
28 Dec 2004 |
| We are experimenting with redundancy parameters.
We will continue to send 3 copies of each workunit,
but will validate results and grant credit
when 2 (rather than 3) of them are returned.
This should result in faster vali
|
1 |
SETI News |
6907 |
27 Dec 2004 |
| We have started removing database records for results
that were completed more than 7 days ago.
This will limit the size of the workunit and result tables
in our database.
Happy holidays!
|
1 |
SETI News |
6637 |
27 Dec 2004 |
| The project will be down for roughly the next 24 hours
while make some changes to the database structure.
[ Good news - changes are all done, and it only took 2 hours ].
|
1 |
SETI News |
7009 |
6 Dec 2004 |
| Versions of BOINC and SETI@home for Solaris/x86
are available,
courtesy of Jochen van Waasen.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6606 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| Windows application version 4.08 is released
|
1 |
SETI News |
6841 |
19 Nov 2004 |
| We had an unexpected 3 hour outage this morning
|
1 |
SETI News |
6758 |
18 Nov 2004 |
| SETI@home application version 4.07 is released.
This build should increase speed over the previous version.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6344 |
5 Nov 2004 |
| The disk array has resynced and the scheduler is back on.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6788 |
27 Oct 2004 |
| The disk array holding the upload/download directories crashed
last night
|
1 |
SETI News |
6493 |
27 Oct 2004 |
| There was a two hour outage this morning for hardware upgrades.
Read more about it in Technical News.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6177 |
20 Oct 2004 |
| SETI@home and BOINC are featured on Catalan TV news.
See the
Movie
(RealVideo) or the English transcript.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6786 |
19 Oct 2004 |
| Each team now has a Create team account URL.
Accounts created through this URL will belong to the team,
and will have the project preferences of its founder.
Team founders: put this URL on your team's web page
|
1 |
SETI News |
6992 |
18 Oct 2004 |
| The web server was offline for a brief time (around 19:00 PST)
when its disk filled up
|
1 |
SETI News |
6730 |
17 Oct 2004 |
| For the first time in a very long time the validator has caught up
on the large backlog of results waiting for credit
|
1 |
SETI News |
6837 |
16 Oct 2004 |
| Version 4.13 of the core client is now available
|
1 |
SETI News |
6349 |
14 Oct 2004 |
| We added more data and informative text to our
Server Status page.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6955 |
13 Oct 2004 |
| We just had (about 21:00 UTC) an unexpected outage due to a disk
crash
|
1 |
SETI News |
6540 |
12 Oct 2004 |
| Read more technical details about our project in the new
Technical News section.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6697 |
12 Oct 2004 |
| This morning's outage lasted a bit longer than expected, but we are
now back up and running again
|
1 |
SETI News |
6331 |
12 Oct 2004 |
| A problem with file uploads has existed for the last few days.
This problem causes file uploads to fail.
We now understand the problem and are working on a fix -
it will probably require upgrading your BOINC client.
Please
|
1 |
SETI News |
6837 |
9 Oct 2004 |
| We added some new message-board features.
|
1 |
SETI News |
7625 |
9 Oct 2004 |
| This morning a hardware failure caused one of our storage arrays
to require resetting.
Downloads will be temporarily halted until the drives have
completed re-synchronizing.
This should be complete in the early evening hou
|
1 |
SETI News |
6512 |
8 Oct 2004 |
| The disk array holding the upload and download directories
failed yesterday and needed to be rebooted and resync'ed.
The project has been mostly down since last night, but as of
now it is back up and running.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6757 |
6 Oct 2004 |
| There's been a problem with file uploading
for the last few days.
We think it is fixed now.
Our apologies if you lost work because of this.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6716 |
6 Oct 2004 |
| UPDATED: We successfully swapped our database hardware, giving the
master database access to much faster disks
|
1 |
SETI News |
6777 |
5 Oct 2004 |
| UPDATED: A new version (4.05) of the windows SETI@home client is available
(and will be automatically picked up by your core clients next time you
contact our servers)
|
1 |
SETI News |
6885 |
30 Sep 2004 |
| Learn how to customize SETI@home graphics.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6810 |
29 Sep 2004 |
| A software error on our scheduling server made it impossible for any
schedulers to start
|
1 |
SETI News |
6349 |
28 Sep 2004 |
| The upload directory move completed this morning and we turned the
file deleter and validator back on.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6198 |
26 Sep 2004 |
| We have relocated the upload directory to off load demand from the DB
server
|
1 |
SETI News |
6683 |
24 Sep 2004 |
| The scheduler is back on
|
1 |
SETI News |
6097 |
23 Sep 2004 |
| Both the transitioner and the validator have fallen behind
|
1 |
SETI News |
6251 |
22 Sep 2004 |
| The upload of user-profile images
has been broken since July 22; it's fixed now.
|
1 |
SETI News |
6890 |
21 Sep 2004 |
| Early this morning campus got a call from SANS that the seti@home classic web site
appeared to be hijacked
|
1 |
SETI News |
6434 |
19 Sep 2004 |
