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 | We have released a new version of the core client for all
platforms, this should fix the various issues with the
Win9x platform.
NOTE: If you are using a Win9x machine, please upgrade
to this release as soon as pos
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SETI News |
7212 |
17 Sep 2004 |
| We have added
a web page showing server status.
The permanent link is under
Participate in SETI@home.
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SETI News |
6538 |
14 Sep 2004 |
| SETI@home is open source,
so you can port it to new platforms
or optimize it for specific architectures.
We have set up an mailing list,
boinc_opt@ssl.berkeley.edu, for people interested in this.
Details are
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SETI News |
7569 |
14 Sep 2004 |
| Sometime last night the scheduling server (which handles all workunit/result
transfers) crashed
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SETI News |
6905 |
13 Sep 2004 |
| The validator fix (see September 8, 2004) and an associated
transitioner fix have been implemented, tested, and placed
online
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SETI News |
6416 |
10 Sep 2004 |
| We have added a number of new features to the message boards.
Details are here.
Thanks to Janus Kristensen for contributing this.
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SETI News |
6747 |
10 Sep 2004 |
| Stats are now available on your cell phone.
See 'Your Account' for the URL.
This feature was developed by Carl Christensen of CPDN.
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SETI News |
6934 |
9 Sep 2004 |
| Yesterday we discovered that when result files are lost, say due
to a restore from a backup (restores involve both the DB and the ULDL
directories) the validator ends up in a endless loop
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SETI News |
6963 |
8 Sep 2004 |
| We came up this morning and had to tune the data server to
keep connection drops from happening
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SETI News |
6341 |
7 Sep 2004 |
| Because of the holiday weekend and family commitments we are
a bit short handed and short on time
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SETI News |
7028 |
5 Sep 2004 |
| The SnapApp folks were here for most of the afternoon
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SETI News |
6561 |
3 Sep 2004 |
| Some technical folks from Snap Appliance are on their way
to SSL to provide on site support
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SETI News |
6591 |
3 Sep 2004 |
| The Snap App hung again
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SETI News |
6815 |
2 Sep 2004 |
| We have completed the SnapApp work around
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SETI News |
6867 |
2 Sep 2004 |
| We will be having a short (less than 1 hour) data server
outage tomorrow at 16:30 UTC
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SETI News |
6070 |
1 Sep 2004 |
| We are back up after restarting the Snap Appliance and making sure
everything is OK
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SETI News |
6752 |
30 Aug 2004 |
| Starting with version 4, BOINC does 'time-slicing'
to divide CPU time between projects.
Learn more
here.
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SETI News |
7073 |
30 Aug 2004 |
| Climateprediction.net,
another BOINC-based project, is now open.
We urge all SETI@home to consider participating in
Climateprediction.net.
This will keep your computer busy (and earn
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SETI News |
7138 |
30 Aug 2004 |
| We are investigating the Win98 hang/crashing issues in this
Thread
Please check it out for any updates.
NOTE: This bug puts your machine in a state that
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SETI News |
7343 |
30 Aug 2004 |
| Our storage array hung again (the SnapApp work around is not
yet implemented)
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SETI News |
6461 |
30 Aug 2004 |
| A fix to scheduler code to get around a possible memory leak
was causing it to bomb after a number of connections.
We have backed out this change for
now and the scheduler seems to be working OK at this point.
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SETI News |
7022 |
29 Aug 2004 |
| After fixing a few inevitable gotchas,
we are back up with the major version upgrade to 4.x.
The servers may be slow in responding as all clients will be
getting a new supply of work.
Everyone will need to download a new c
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SETI News |
6859 |
29 Aug 2004 |
| The migration plan has been rescheduled for tomorrow the 29th at 10am PDT
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SETI News |
8579 |
28 Aug 2004 |
| The last set of hardware issues have been resolved
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SETI News |
6261 |
27 Aug 2004 |
| We are currently experiencing a hardware issue with our scheduling server,
we expect this issue to be resolved within the hour
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SETI News |
7268 |
27 Aug 2004 |
| We have brought down the splitters, transitioners, and scheduler until a
bug in the splitter can be resolved which was causing a bogus URL to be
posted for the work-unit.
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SETI News |
6552 |
26 Aug 2004 |
| We fixed the bogus URL bug and all servers are back up
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SETI News |
6274 |
26 Aug 2004 |
| A trio of splitters are now up and producing new work.
We plan to release major version 4 of BOINC and SETI@Home
tomorrow.
A clarification about last week's fallback to an earlier
DB state: all work that was uploaded
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SETI News |
6929 |
25 Aug 2004 |
| The validator is up and running and credit is now being calculated
for all those backlogged results.
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SETI News |
6355 |
23 Aug 2004 |
| We are currently working on getting the alpha/beta projects working again, as well
as getting new workunits generated so that when we restart the public SETI@home project
there will be work to send out to the clients.
Another n
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SETI News |
8154 |
20 Aug 2004 |
| The database has been restored and is being checked now
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SETI News |
6751 |
19 Aug 2004 |
| We are now recovering the database from a snapshot made
a few days ago
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SETI News |
6591 |
18 Aug 2004 |
| The project ended up running all night despite the dropouts, but this
afternoon we encountered a sudden raid failure that caused some data
corruption
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SETI News |
6560 |
17 Aug 2004 |
| Today we are continuing to work with Snap technical support to
solve our mounting problems
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SETI News |
6753 |
16 Aug 2004 |
| Currently the project is up, as we were unable to recreate the
problems we were seeing on Friday
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SETI News |
6597 |
16 Aug 2004 |
| We encourage everyone to run SETI@home Classic
during our server outages.
SETI@home Classic makes the same scientific contribution
as SETI@home/BOINC.
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SETI News |
6493 |
14 Aug 2004 |
| All the data has been copied to the Snap device
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SETI News |
7302 |
13 Aug 2004 |
| The download directory is fully transferred at this point, but we
are still waiting for the upload directory to finish
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SETI News |
6712 |
12 Aug 2004 |
| The DB is now on the Snap Appliance and the web site is back up.
The project itself is still down as the transfer of the upload and
download directories is still under way.
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SETI News |
6454 |
12 Aug 2004 |
| The project is now down for the move of the DB and the upload
directory to the Snap Appliance
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SETI News |
6358 |
11 Aug 2004 |
| We have started the copy of the download directory to the Snap
Appliance 18000.
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SETI News |
6487 |
10 Aug 2004 |
| The servers are back up as far as receiving results but not as
far as distributing new workunits
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SETI News |
7011 |
8 Aug 2004 |
| The scheduling server is down while we work on a download storage
problem
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SETI News |
6720 |
7 Aug 2004 |
| We developed a hierarchical directory structure to get around the
big directory problem (see August 4, below)
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SETI News |
7738 |
6 Aug 2004 |
| A misconfigured scheduling server ran for about an hour this morning,
misinforming users that they had to upgrade to version 4 of the
BOINC software
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SETI News |
7005 |
5 Aug 2004 |
| We discovered that the sheer number of files in the upload directory
was killing NFS performance for the file_upload_handler
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SETI News |
7559 |
4 Aug 2004 |
| While the project is up and functioning normally, the database and
web servers are overloaded
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SETI News |
6413 |
3 Aug 2004 |
| The project remained down all weekend, but we are back up now.
To add insult to injury, the entire lab lost network connectivity
to the rest of the world for a few hours this morning.
In light of the unexpected length of this las
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SETI News |
7245 |
2 Aug 2004 |
| The project is *still* down
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SETI News |
6632 |
30 Jul 2004 |
| The project is currently down
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SETI News |
6382 |
28 Jul 2004 |
