I've been following these threads with fascination (meanwhile, my machine is chewing over some einstein@home WUs). I love what you've done with the place, though I agree that everything will be hard to find since you tidied up. I am getting confused, however, keeping track of your different server names (thumper, sidious, et al). I wonder if, while you guys are sitting around waiting for the UPS guy, you might give us a cast list of your servers and their functions? As the say in baseball, Ya can't tell the players wit'out a program!

That's what Jocelyn, Sidious, and the other BOINC system servers do. Thumper is the Master Science Database and is really only needed when work is generated from our POV, and of course assimilate the canonical results into. IIRC, they're now considering what they can do to build up a backup for him and how that fits into the budget.

Alinator

I've been following these threads with fascination (meanwhile, my machine is chewing over some einstein@home WUs). I love what you've done with the place, though I agree that everything will be hard to find since you tidied up. I am getting confused, however, keeping track of your different server names (thumper, sidious, et al). I wonder if, while you guys are sitting around waiting for the UPS guy, you might give us a cast list of your servers and their functions? As the say in baseball, Ya can't tell the players wit'out a program!

If you click on 'server status' under 'about' (at the top of the page/ home page), you'll see a listing of all the servers and their duties, etc.

(so, for UNIX u haven't to pay a license.)

Only if you steal a copy.
LINUX & BSD are based on UNIX, but they are not UNIX.

I thought we might enjoy a quick communal sing-song: are we ready...all together now...

Fly me to the moon...let me play among the stars.
Let me see what life is like
on Jupiter and Mars

Aaah Thenkyoo

I will see your Fly me and raise you ..

Its cold outside,
There's no kind of atmosphere,
I'm all alone,
More or less.
Let me fly,
Far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun.

How about '2000 light years from home' by the Strolling Bones?

(so, for UNIX u haven't to pay a license.)

Only if you steal a copy.
LINUX & BSD are based on UNIX, but they are not UNIX.

While the *NIX vs. Windows issue is an interesting one, it really isn't "on topic" for this thread.

What we're talking about here is the very fastest way for the project to get back in operation.

The fastest way is for the hardware to arrive from SUN, slap in the drives, cross fingers, and watch Thumper restart.

Re-engineering with Windows is not going to be as fast.

I'll also remind everyone that the primary goal of BOINC is to allow projects to run "on the cheap" -- and that means using as much open source, open licensed software as possible.

Agree to that Ned, and... well I think my image sais what I think ;)

Thank you, but I know about the server status.
But my request was about the actual situation about receiving, replacing of the new server. Does have Sun send the new one ???
Then of course, it need to be integrated into the system.

The *NIX are here to stay, especially at the universities where all research should be done using free / open software.

Agreed the Unix systems are deffinitly more reliable as history proves but if built properly a Windows 2k or 2k3 box will have just as much uptime as their Unix counterparts.

I'm happy I got some work for seti don't really know how comes but got some work done. So I'm really pleased acctually, (as I assume this is meaning the near end of the problems). correct me if I'm wrong off course. Only thing I noticed that seemed a bit "weird" is that my credits ain't showing in "Boincstats" :s. But hey we're all here to find something out their ;)

Has the big box arrived?

EDIT: Oops, I just saw Matt Lebofsky's post. Awwwww.... :-(

Has the big box arrived?

EDIT: Oops, I just saw Matt Lebofsky's post. Awwwww.... :-(

And a collective sigh goes up from the Seti community.......
Oh well, can't complain about Sun, you know what they say about looking a gift horse in the mouth and such.

BTW, is Matt aware that the Beta up/download server is down?

"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

I just posted a news item on the front page. Turns out the Sun server won't be here until Friday. According to Fed Ex tracking it just left Tennessee last night. Oh well. I'll submit more details later today in a new thread.

- Matt

I just posted a news item on the front page. Turns out the Sun server won't be here until Friday. According to Fed Ex tracking it just left Tennessee last night. Oh well. I'll submit more details later today in a new thread.

- Matt