Ho hum weekend, which is good. The air conditioning people came up yesterday (Monday) and today to do follow-up inspection of our server closet system (which failed last week) and found a couple more leaks which have been repaired. We seem to really be pushing it beyond its limits. Had the usual database outage today. No big whoop there.

Somebody noted earlier that their results were getting validated surprisingly quickly. We didn't change anything. This may have been due to a longer-than-usual period this past weekend of fast workunits - the average turnaround time was roughly 10 hours (about 20%) shorter than normal, meaning pairs were getting matched up that much faster.

A lot of what's been going on the past couple of days has been post-vacation catchup (half the staff was out of town). While I have a zillion other things to do I discovered a couple ways to optimize the NTPCkr so I coded that up and I'm testing it now. Every little speedup on this front helps. Jeff's still working on the scoring part. We're getting there...

- 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

Excellent news that nothing major happened over the weekend and during the outage today as well.

Thank you for the update on optimizing the NTPCKr and getting it up and running and hope your hard work pays off.

Get the engineering majors to build a robot for you guys to help do mundane tasks around the lab :-)

Thank you as always for the news and to all of you keep up the good work.

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Yes

The outrage seemed to be over very quickly, so I presume all went efficiently?

The servers must be being hammered just now as uploading results and reporting are slow ... verrrry slooow. But, in a few hours all will settle down to normal.

Thanks Matt, and I hope the code testing and a zillion other things go smoothly

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

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. . . As Usual - Many Accolades to You Each @ Berkeley - Thanks for the Post Matt

> Welcome back, to the Scientists - Here's Hopin' All went Well (and is) . . .

ed-sp

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

Not to rain on any parades, but it looks like the Upload server is having "issues" :-)

[EDIT] Well, it looks like it was a simple log-jam. I've never seen 30 tasks all sitting in "Upload" status at the same time before. :-) [/EDIT]

I've never seen 30 tasks all sitting in "Upload" status at the same time before. :-)

Try Milkyway@Home; even on my Celeron laptop each WU is ~22 minutes, and you can queue 20 at a time....

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