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Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
Regular outage today for backup compression/backup. Bob took care of all that. Meanwhile I briefly shut down the Network Appliance to clean its pipes, pull out some bad drives, and re-route some cables. This caused the web servers to all hang for about 5 minutes. Other than that, just playing with the new toys. New multibeam client probably won't be happening this week. Eric is still digging himself out from some long days of grant proposal writing last week. - 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 |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
Matt , thank you very much for the update ! Kind Regards Byron |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
Regular outage today for backup compression/backup. Bob took care of all that. Meanwhile I briefly shut down the Network Appliance to clean its pipes, pull out some bad drives, and re-route some cables. This caused the web servers to all hang for about 5 minutes. Other than that, just playing with the new toys. New multibeam client probably won't be happening this week. Eric is still digging himself out from some long days of grant proposal writing last week. Your Post Update is Much Appreciated Sir!!! . . . Thank You and to Berkeley - CONGRATULATIONS Today . . . BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
kinhull Send message Joined: 3 Oct 03 Posts: 1029 Credit: 636,475 RAC: 0 |
Eric is still digging himself out from some long days of grant proposal writing last week. Thanks for the info Matt. I take it that the grant proposal is for Seti@Home, either way I wish the best of luck to Eric. Join TeamACC Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. |
Sir Ulli Send message Joined: 21 Oct 99 Posts: 2246 Credit: 6,136,250 RAC: 0 |
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Best outage I've ever seen Matt! It seemed to go off without any problems, Just as It should, Many thanks. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Alinator Send message Joined: 19 Apr 05 Posts: 4178 Credit: 4,647,982 RAC: 0 |
The only thing I would ask is that you give us least 24 hours advance notice before rolling MB out so we can take appropriate steps. Especially for the folks (like myself) who run the Coop and other apps using the anonymous platform. Alinator |
PhonAcq Send message Joined: 14 Apr 01 Posts: 1656 Credit: 30,658,217 RAC: 1 |
MB roll out: in addition to some leading notice, would someone also explain expected behavior. Do we need to download new clients, for example? Will we be wise to adjust our caches? Should we turn to other projects for a couple of weeks to minimize cpu cycle loss due to chaos? You know, the usual concerns. |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
MB roll out: in addition to some leading notice, would someone also explain expected behavior. Do we need to download new clients, for example? Will we be wise to adjust our caches? Should we turn to other projects for a couple of weeks to minimize cpu cycle loss due to chaos? You know, the usual concerns. We saw this with the change from 4.x to 5.x. For those running standard science applications (no app_info.xml), BOINC will download the new science application when it receives the first 5.2x (multibeam) work units. It will be completely automatic. If you have an app_info.xml, and it does not specify anything for 5.2x (it should only specify versions that are known to work and not some future unreleased version that might or might not be okay), then the BOINC servers will only send 5.15. For a while, there will be 5.15 and 5.2x units to be crunched (replacements for lost work, no quorum, etc.) and at first, there will be plenty. As the 5.15 work gets scarce, those with an outdated science application and app_info.xml will run out of work and go idle. In other words, this isn't a big deal. You aren't going to have days or weeks of "idle time" unless you just plain miss it -- and since most of the people asking for advance notice watch BOINC closely, I don't see that happening. If you are really worried about the transition, delete your app_info.xml now, let BOINC revert to the standard science application, and let it manage the transition -- then update to the new chicken app. that handles multibeam. Note that there is some need to keep both 5.15 and 5.2x "out there" or some of the earlier work units will never form a quorum and never get credit. This will likely get handled by those running the standard, non-optimized science app. |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
MB roll out: in addition to some leading notice, would someone also explain expected behavior. Do we need to download new clients, for example? Will we be wise to adjust our caches? Should we turn to other projects for a couple of weeks to minimize cpu cycle loss due to chaos? You know, the usual concerns. The change from 4.x to 5.x was more importantly a change from application name "setiathome" to "setiathome_enhanced" and the underlying processing changes which required a name change. 5.15 to 5.2x is a simple minor upgrade involving no change to the processing. Both Line feed and Multibeam WUs can be processed by either version, the science results will be the same. For those running standard science applications (no app_info.xml), BOINC will download the new science application when it receives the first 5.2x (multibeam) work units. It will be completely automatic. Red = generalizing from a different situation, so off-track. The new apps will convert internal flop counts to the reported fpops_cumulative at a 13.7% higher multiple. Multibeam work is enough different that RAC would decline if an adjustment weren't made. That is the only difference which need concern users, if they stay with the old application they'll be claiming lower credits than others and generating much wrath. The only other change is that those using graphics will see "SETI@home Multi-beam" at the top of the Pillars display when doing MB work, and the data source will be reported as from a particular beam and polarity. Joe |
PhonAcq Send message Joined: 14 Apr 01 Posts: 1656 Credit: 30,658,217 RAC: 1 |
So it sounds like if I do nothing, then I will not see a difference at first, but in time, as the 5.15 wu's run out I will see more MB wu's and a general decrease in RAC. This latter effect will be remedied by moving to an MB updated application. But if the reduction in RAC was not important to me, then I could continue running my optimized app for the foreseable future, without any changes. Right? |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
So it sounds like if I do nothing, then I will not see a difference at first, but in time, as the 5.15 wu's run out I will see more MB wu's and a general decrease in RAC. This latter effect will be remedied by moving to an MB updated application. But if the reduction in RAC was not important to me, then I could continue running my optimized app for the foreseable future, without any changes. Yes. But of course we hope users will upgrade to the new optimized app quickly. We expect it to be slightly faster so even those who are strictly interested in producing more science results will be motivated to upgrade. Joe |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
We'll see.... |
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