The standard weekly outage chores (database compression/backup, log rotation, general housecleaning) went by without much incident. It's the extra stuff we try to do at the same time that may or may not be as easy. Today Eric wanted to add a donated (and upgraded) 12TB disk array to his Hydrogen database server, ewen. We also took the opportunity to move a few things around in the closet now that there was rack space (and rack rails that fit!). The moving was fine - however ewen is having problems booting now. Eric added a couple SCSI cards, so maybe there's confusion about where the boot disk is, etc.

In any case, ewen isn't really a SETI@home/BOINC server, but contains enough shared stuff that when it disappears, there's a general malaise in the BOINC backend. Uploads and downloads are fine - it's the splitter, validating, assimilating, etc. that's not going so well (if at all). Eric's beating his head on that. Meanwhile, random unix commands sometimes work immediately, sometimes take 30 seconds to respond. Not so fun. We hope to beyond this before day's end.

I did fight the crowds and downloaded Fedora Core 9 for soon-to-be server upgrades. I'm upgrading one test case now - so far so good.

Jeff has been figuring out the Google Sky API. We'll probably replace the Sloan Survey pix on the science status page with this, as well as use Google Sky to show our current top candidates as they start rolling in via the NTPCkr.

- Matt

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Good news that everything went fairly smoothly during the outage.
If you get the chance some pics of the newly arranged closet would be nice, always good to see the machines and the cable spaghetti :-)

Looking forward to seeing the maps with Google Sky, should be interesting.

Thank you Matt and everyone else, I am off to figure out why some keys on my keyboard are not behaving properly.

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. . . nice work all - Matt - Thanks for the Posting

> re: "Jeff has been figuring out the Google Sky API. We'll probably replace the Sloan Survey pix on the science status page with this, as well as use Google Sky to show our current top candidates as they start rolling in via the NTPCkr"

> @ Matt - you might want to Post in First Signs of the NTPCkr to Update that Post? < just a Suggestion >

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

We'll probably replace the Sloan Survey pix on the science status page with this,

Hi,
I was wondering which pix you mean. The 'Science status' link (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sci_status.html) on the start page do not show me any picture.
Am I looking at the wrong place?

Thanks!

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We'll probably replace the Sloan Survey pix on the science status page with this,

Hi,
I was wondering which pix you mean. The 'Science status' link (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sci_status.html) on the start page do not show me any picture.
Am I looking at the wrong place?

Thanks!

That is the correct place... A picture is not shown if there isn't one for that location.

~BoB

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We'll probably replace the Sloan Survey pix on the science status page with this,

Hi,
I was wondering which pix you mean. The 'Science status' link (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sci_status.html) on the start page do not show me any picture.
Am I looking at the wrong place?

Thanks!

That is the correct place... A picture is not shown if there isn't one for that location.

~BoB

. . . a reference to Matt's Posting:

Jeff has been figuring out the Google Sky API. We'll probably replace the Sloan Survey pix on the science status page with this, as well as use Google Sky to show our current top candidates as they start rolling in via the NTPCkr

> may well refer to the 'image' replacement bein' from the following? re: (in BOLD - above) Google Sky API - Matt?

The Sloan Legacy Survey

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .