There's not much news to report on the technical front - but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. I've mostly been engrossed in tasks that have little effect on the public servers, so anything I've been working on is either (a) too complicated to describe to everybody's satisfaction (including my own), or (b) relatively uninteresting.

I've been lax in sending out regular "reminder" e-mails to participants who lapsed (i.e. have stopped processing data for N days) or never succeeded in processing work. We wanted to start these up in the fall, but there were server woes - and it's not good form to send "please come back" messages to people only to frustrate them with connection failures. Then everybody went on vacation at different times. Then it was donation season, and we try not to send e-mails to people more than quarterly, so that postponed the reminders until a month ago, but at that point we were having the science database/router woes. Anyway.. now seems like a good time to try and start again. Perhaps starting early next week.

Tomorrow is a University Holiday, thus making this a three day weekend. Perhaps start an office pool involving which server will croak at midnight tonight.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

There's not much news to report on the technical front - but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. I've mostly been engrossed in tasks that have little effect on the public servers, so anything I've been working on is either (a) too complicated to describe to everybody's satisfaction (including my own), or (b) relatively uninteresting.

I've been lax in sending out regular "reminder" e-mails to participants who lapsed (i.e. have stopped processing data for N days) or never succeeded in processing work. We wanted to start these up in the fall, but there were server woes - and it's not good form to send "please come back" messages to people only to frustrate them with connection failures. Then everybody went on vacation at different times. Then it was donation season, and we try not to send e-mails to people more than quarterly, so that postponed the reminders until a month ago, but at that point we were having the science database/router woes. Anyway.. now seems like a good time to try and start again. Perhaps starting early next week.

Tomorrow is a University Holiday, thus making this a three day weekend. Perhaps start an office pool involving which server will croak at midnight tonight.

- Matt

Have a nice holiday Matt.......
And I hope that you all lose that pool.....LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Hope you have a nice break Matt and everyone at Berkeley.

Hopefully nothing will croak at all and then it will be a pleasant weekend for all.

Will be myself getting one of those reminder emails, as I had a host working but sadly the machine has gone to the big tech warehouse in the sky to make way for a totally new system still awaiting parts to arrive.

Will be hooked up joining the project when it is complete and finishes building it's 3TB Raid array and file transfer from my server.

Enjoy the long weekend and have a few nice cold beers for all the hard work.

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. . . Enjoy the three-day Weekend Matt (and Each of You @ Berkeley too . . .)

. . . fingers are crossed re: [i]. . . which server will croak at midnight tonight

;) i have faith it'll be alright . . .

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

Well, on the Beta side:
3/27/2008 4:21:04 PM|SETI@home Beta Test|Message from server: Server error: can't attach shared memory

So who had the bet for before the end of today?

There's not much news to report on the technical front - but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. I've mostly been engrossed in tasks that have little effect on the public servers, so anything I've been working on is either (a) too complicated to describe to everybody's satisfaction (including my own), or (b) relatively uninteresting.

I've been lax in sending out regular "reminder" e-mails to participants who lapsed (i.e. have stopped processing data for N days) or never succeeded in processing work. We wanted to start these up in the fall, but there were server woes - and it's not good form to send "please come back" messages to people only to frustrate them with connection failures. Then everybody went on vacation at different times. Then it was donation season, and we try not to send e-mails to people more than quarterly, so that postponed the reminders until a month ago, but at that point we were having the science database/router woes. Anyway.. now seems like a good time to try and start again. Perhaps starting early next week.

Tomorrow is a University Holiday, thus making this a three day weekend. Perhaps start an office pool involving which server will croak at midnight tonight.

- Matt

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Well, on the Beta side:
3/27/2008 4:21:04 PM|SETI@home Beta Test|Message from server: Server error: can't attach shared memory

So who had the bet for before the end of today?

To be fair, that's a software not a hardware problem, and it started happening yesterday afternoon. I only got word of it just a few minutes ago (I'm out of the beta test loop) and the proper authorities have been notified.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Well, on the Beta side:
3/27/2008 4:21:04 PM|SETI@home Beta Test|Message from server: Server error: can't attach shared memory

So who had the bet for before the end of today?

To be fair, that's a software not a hardware problem, and it started happening yesterday afternoon. I only got word of it just a few minutes ago (I'm out of the beta test loop) and the proper authorities have been notified.

- Matt

Have a good long weekend. Just wanted to be sure a bug on beta wasn't going to chew its way through the machine to the production side. (In other words, the bug's in the application, or the config, not the O/S)

Which brings up a question. Is beta running the same server as the production?

Which brings up a question. Is beta running the same server as the production?

Yes. According to the server status page, most of S@h Beta runs on bruno; its feeder is on ptolemy, along with the main project’s.

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Perhaps start an office pool involving which server will croak at midnight tonight.

Didn't make it that far, looks like it barely made it past the close of business. Downloads are no more.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Which brings up a question. Is beta running the same server as the production?

Yes. According to the server status page, most of S@h Beta runs on bruno; its feeder is on ptolemy, along with the main project’s.

Thanks.

Didn't make it clear, I meant the version of the software server application. I do see in the message log they both say version 601 so I may have answered my own question. I kind of knew the same hardware was being used.

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