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Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
Yep, beta will run out of work as well. I'll be getting a current status report from Matt and Jeff in 20 minutes. @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
netwraith Send message Joined: 15 Sep 06 Posts: 8 Credit: 61,290 RAC: 0 |
-- How big is the array ???? The reason I ask is that I have a spare FiberChannel-over-copper ClarIIon Array that could be had... That is, if it's big enough to do some good... And perhaps a spare dual XEON server.... or another 420/450 Sun UltraSparc.. Reply in email for confidential discussion ... posting response is also OK... |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
Infortunately, thumper's hardware is very specialized. The 6 sata controllers are part of a stacked/sandwiched motherboard design. There are no SATA cables in the box. The 48 port SATA backplane plugs directly into the lower motherboard. It's pre-release hardware, so Sun doesn't know whether a full motherboard swap is even possible due to changes between the engineering model and the production model. Even if we got a 24 port PCI SATA controller, there would be no way to use it in thumper. Our best bet is to get another machine with 24 drive bays, and we're exploring several avenues. We used software (mdadm) RAID+LVM, so they should boot right up in a different box. I'll post an update when I have more info on current status. Eric @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
Dirk and LoriEllen Send message Joined: 13 Feb 07 Posts: 27 Credit: 27,573 RAC: 0 |
Will it do any harm to leave the auto-update on Boinc running? It would be great to get work soon, my latest is ay 90% complete now. |
Conrad Human Send message Joined: 17 Nov 00 Posts: 67 Credit: 2,009,224 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Eric I would also like some GB specs on that array (cant help with funds or hardware) Is it posible to make jocelyn an replica server for Thumper too ? |
Jim Baize Send message Joined: 6 May 00 Posts: 758 Credit: 149,536 RAC: 0 |
Will it do any harm to leave the auto-update on Boinc running? It would be great to get work soon, my latest is ay 90% complete now. When you say "auto-update" I assume that you are talking about the ability of Boinc to periodically poll the server to see if there is any work. If so, then no, it will not hurt. In fact, this is a prime example of why Boinc was built with this (and other) features. It was designed to be able to withstand downtime by projects. |
Alinator Send message Joined: 19 Apr 05 Posts: 4178 Credit: 4,647,982 RAC: 0 |
IINM, the problem is that if the scheduler is still up and your host is out of work, it won't trigger the random backoff and your host 'pesters' the project much more frequently looking for new work. As more hosts run out, it seems to be slowing down others from being able to report their completed work, so it would seem to be better to set No New Tasks for the time being. Alinator |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
-- 24x500GB. (12TB of which about 8TB was active with 2TB of parity and 2TB of spares). Just talked with Matt and Jeff. It looks like we'll have a replacement machine within a few days, but I can't give details just yet because things are still in process. Eric @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
netwraith Send message Joined: 15 Sep 06 Posts: 8 Credit: 61,290 RAC: 0 |
-- Thanks... too big for the ClarIIon.. to handle.. Oh well... |
Philadelphia Send message Joined: 12 Feb 07 Posts: 1590 Credit: 399,688 RAC: 0 |
This was one of those days. Sometime in the early morning MySQL on sidious crashed and rebooted itself. It had minor indigestion and restarted on its own just fine. Eric had to restart the BOINC projects to clean the pipes. Matt, I send you an email a couple of minutes ago about a server, can you read it and get back to me. my email is danmartinaz AT aol DOT com http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=39206 |
marsinph Send message Joined: 7 Apr 01 Posts: 172 Credit: 23,823,824 RAC: 0 |
Hi everybody, I am not able to give a new mainboard or server. But I can send you all my support. By the way, Sun can also do " something ". Boinc become very popular around the world. There are more and more reportage on TV, newspapers about Arecibo and Boinc. It is free advertising for Sun. So they also can do more than normal support !! With hope on the (very) soon arrival of the replacment machine, my greetings. |
Jane Delawney Send message Joined: 3 May 02 Posts: 5 Credit: 2,886,879 RAC: 0 |
Matt, this is my first post on the forums, just because as a long time seti contributor I've been caught up in the car crash. Can't offer any hardware or any techie suggestions since I'm just an end user on various platforms - but can't help wondering what will happen to the work currently in progress on my linux box which has been delayed by almost a week because of a simple hardware failure (dead power supply - day job meant I couldn't sort it out until now). 'Cos this box isn't the fastest in the world it's going to be some time tomorrow morning before it attempts to report; do you think it's worth carrying on with it, or should I abort the task and wait until y'all are back up? in other words if I let this box carry on number-crunching and reporting, what will happen to that report, assuming you're able to get things up and running again in the next week or so? [btw because of *quite* a few hardware problems I've been contributing to this project from a win vista laptop for the past couple of weeks. I'm almost ashamed to admit it! but so it goes. Windows Vista? I hate it already.] JD |
Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
Philadelphia Thank You I called Eric who went off to insure Matt got interrupted long enough to read the email... You should have a reply shortly Regards Pappa
Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
-- We'll keep our fingers crossed for you. And the kitties united says: Let's hope those humans will understand our need to crunch! "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
Jane Welcome to Seti If is has not told you it in danger of timing out let it complete... Matt, this is my first post on the forums, just because as a long time seti contributor I've been caught up in the car crash. Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. |
PJ - SonOfJabba Send message Joined: 3 Dec 01 Posts: 3 Credit: 242,569 RAC: 0 |
One of the computers in my Seti Farm just had the same issue. I got it to work with a Promise PCI Controller Card until I can figure out the real cause of the issue. Good Luck! |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
Matt, this is my first post on the forums, just because as a long time seti contributor I've been caught up in the car crash. When there is an outage like this, deadlines are generally extended, either "artifically" (by the project) or simply because everyone is "late" and the work pairs-up just fine when things start working. |
Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
When there is an outage like this, deadlines are generally extended, either "artifically" (by the project) or simply because everyone is "late" and the work pairs-up just fine when things start working. If there is an outage where people cannot connect to the project at all, that's when we artificially bump up deadlines. However, in an outage *like this* all the public facing servers are up and running, they simply aren't sending out any new work. But work being processed can still be submitted and validated (and credit granted). So there's no reason to bump up deadlines. By the way I did notice just now the file_upload stuff was hung for the past few hours. Not sure why. I kicked the web server and that's working again. - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
Qurmo Send message Joined: 2 May 07 Posts: 8 Credit: 306,878 RAC: 0 |
I'm happy to see their's a solution on it's way, let's hope they send it in express delivery ;). Hope all will return in to normal soon so I can start doing some tasks for you guy's. Any way I'm gonne call it a night. |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
As i stil got +- 1 day worth of work does this afect beta as well ? well at least I wont have to worry there. 200 hours and still crunching. me@rescam.org |
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