92.36 Mbits/sec and holding - that must be the new router. Not bad if it's still on a nominal 100Mb circuit - well done guys.

Thank You Berkeley - Nice job on the Issues . . .

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

they probably have that server now connected to the light switch; when someone came to work today, the lights went on and we all started to 'communicate' with the seti-borg.

Good things:
1) BOINC tolerates some downtime with the project so no work is lost;
2) SETI team fixes everything every morning

The don't fix everything, every morning, I've got over 1000 more pending credit than usual today.

C'mon... It is weekend and they gotta have a life as well!!

F.

What? You don't check your machines daily to see that they are working properly? Are we more devoted to the project than they are? I can't buy that.

They may check in on them, but most of them have lives outside of SETI. It's not a matter of devotion, it's a matter of having other things/obligations to do.

For instance, Matt is also part of a band. If he's got a gig on stage and he happens to get a text message via his cell from the server (assuming he could even hear the ring or vibration) saying there's a problem, do you expect him to ditch his band to come in and fix the servers? These people are not sitting around at home with their families doing nothing but waiting for servers to go down.

If one of the guys happens to be free and notice a problem, they come in if they can. If they can't, then there's nothing that can be done about it. This is the reason why BOINC is designed to hide server downtime through caching or utilizing other projects. 99.99% uptime is just not feasible and their manpower is very limited.

How dare he have a life outside of SETI. Where's the dedication?...*;)

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they probably have that server now connected to the light switch; when someone came to work today, the lights went on and we all started to 'communicate' with the seti-borg.

Good things:
1) BOINC tolerates some downtime with the project so no work is lost;
2) SETI team fixes everything every morning

The don't fix everything, every morning, I've got over 1000 more pending credit than usual today.

There is unfortunately a difference between a problem being "fixed" and the effects showing up in a positive way.

If the validators are making progress against the backlog, the problem is "fixed" but if the validators are draining the queue at a rate of oh, maybe 10 work units/minute faster than the work is coming in, and the backlog is 100,000 (or more) then it'll take about six days to finally catch up.

The numbers probably aren't correct, but the concept is.

... and if the work is credited, then all will be well eventually.

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They may check in on them, but most of them have lives outside of SETI. It's not a matter of devotion, it's a matter of having other things/obligations to do.

For instance, Matt is also part of a band. If he's got a gig on stage and he happens to get a text message via his cell from the server (assuming he could even hear the ring or vibration) saying there's a problem, do you expect him to ditch his band to come in and fix the servers? These people are not sitting around at home with their families doing nothing but waiting for servers to go down.

If one of the guys happens to be free and notice a problem, they come in if they can. If they can't, then there's nothing that can be done about it. This is the reason why BOINC is designed to hide server downtime through caching or utilizing other projects. 99.99% uptime is just not feasible and their manpower is very limited.

How dare he have a life outside of SETI. Where's the dedication?...*;)

LOL :-)

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Today my RAC snapped back to its normal value and the pendings dropped about 30 percent to 6,500. However the "Ready to Reports" jumped from two to 23. Just like a "Rubber Ball" (Bobby Vee- Jan 1961) things come bouncing - bouncing back to normal after a day or two, thanks to the hardworking Berkeley team and volunteers.

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Today my RAC snapped back to its normal value and the pendings dropped about 30 percent to 6,500. However the "Ready to Reports" jumped from two to 23. Just like a "Rubber Ball" (Bobby Vee- Jan 1961) things come bouncing - bouncing back to normal after a day or two, thanks to the hardworking Berkeley team and volunteers.

The "Ready to Reports" are purely a function of when your box decides to contact Berkeley - nothing to do with the server end of things.

F.
(Yes, I remember that track well!! ;)

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