Monday Memo (Sep 29 2008)

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Author	Message
Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1379 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 813245 - Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 22:17:27 UTC
	Quick news for the beginning of the week. We chugged along nicely all weekend, though for server load reasons we were running less Astropulse splitters (and thus creating less Astropulse workunits) and so they've been "falling behind" SETI@home in the competition for processing power. I changed that this morning. Also we're going to attempt the bruno upgrade again tomorrow. We realized last week we'll need a lot of time to do everything we'd like, so the regular outage will start a bit early and possibly end later. - 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
	ID: 813245 ·

BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2480 Credit: 7,685,379 RAC: 7,626	Message 813250 - Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 22:38:28 UTC - in response to Message 813245.
	Ah -- like about an hour ago or so? No uploads/downloads at the moment. 9/29/2008 3:19:37 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/29/2008 3:19:38 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/29/2008 3:19:40 PM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data) ____________
	ID: 813250 ·

John G Send message Joined: 29 Dec 01 Posts: 61 Credit: 5,130,016 RAC: 0	Message 813256 - Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 23:02:55 UTC - in response to Message 813245.
	Hey Matt All is fine thanks for the info and yea no units going out and no completed units being credited ---- I know the seti team is on it as usual. Happy Crunching ____________
	ID: 813256 ·

Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1379 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 813258 - Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 23:04:10 UTC - in response to Message 813256.
	All is fine thanks for the info and yea no units going out and no completed units being credited... Oh yeah, that.. Seems like a query that should run on the replica (but isn't because the replica is undergoing maintenance) started running on the master and is clogging the works. I'll kill it and that should break the dam. - 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
	ID: 813258 ·

VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 41284 Credit: 32,369,165 RAC: 5,475	Message 813269 - Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 23:26:51 UTC
	Nice Matt, Still can't get through, I stopped and then restarted Boinc and only once did anything upload or report on My 4 PCs, 24 bytes a second is pretty slow. ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
	ID: 813269 ·

tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 2953 Credit: 266,849 RAC: 274	Message 813431 - Posted: 30 Sep 2008, 10:28:20 UTC - in response to Message 813428.
	I am receiving MB units but no Astropulse units so I don't know if 4.36 is better than 4.35 on my Linux box. AK_V8_SS3 is good. Tullio ____________
	ID: 813431 ·

KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 1614 Credit: 4,510,961 RAC: 2,790	Message 813464 - Posted: 30 Sep 2008, 14:06:01 UTC
	Matt, Thanks for finally fixing the "overflow rate" on the science page... (or, at least, this is the first I've noticed that it moved off 5%, where it had been for a week or more...) ____________ .
	ID: 813464 ·

PhonAcq Send message Joined: 14 Apr 01 Posts: 1620 Credit: 20,964,163 RAC: 2,418	Message 813468 - Posted: 30 Sep 2008, 14:21:26 UTC - in response to Message 813245.
	Quick news for the beginning of the week. We chugged along nicely all weekend, though for server load reasons we were running less Astropulse splitters (and thus creating less Astropulse workunits) and so they've been "falling behind" SETI@home in the competition for processing power. I changed that this morning. Also we're going to attempt the bruno upgrade again tomorrow. We realized last week we'll need a lot of time to do everything we'd like, so the regular outage will start a bit early and possibly end later. - Matt What are your targets for MB/Astropulse processing power, which justify your statement that AP is 'falling behind'? And is there a day targeted for turning off the MB wu generation, which I am assuming is in the back of your mind?
	ID: 813468 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 15969 Credit: 631,882 RAC: 251	Message 813484 - Posted: 30 Sep 2008, 15:10:25 UTC
	. . . nice work Berkeley - Thanks to Matt for the Postin' - see You all after the 'outrage' ;)) ____________ BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . .
	ID: 813484 ·

RandyC Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 714 Credit: 1,704,345 RAC: 0	Message 813489 - Posted: 30 Sep 2008, 15:35:57 UTC - in response to Message 813431.
	I am receiving MB units but no Astropulse units so I don't know if 4.36 is better than 4.35 on my Linux box. AK_V8_SS3 is good. Tullio If you're running AV_V8, that means you have an app_info.xml file on your system. If Astropulse is not defined within that file, then you will never get any Astropulse WUs, only MB.
	ID: 813489 ·

KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 1614 Credit: 4,510,961 RAC: 2,790	Message 813506 - Posted: 30 Sep 2008, 22:54:06 UTC - in response to Message 813468. Last modified: 30 Sep 2008, 22:54:39 UTC
	Quick news for the beginning of the week. We chugged along nicely all weekend, though for server load reasons we were running less Astropulse splitters (and thus creating less Astropulse workunits) and so they've been "falling behind" SETI@home in the competition for processing power. I changed that this morning. Also we're going to attempt the bruno upgrade again tomorrow. We realized last week we'll need a lot of time to do everything we'd like, so the regular outage will start a bit early and possibly end later. - Matt What are your targets for MB/Astropulse processing power, which justify your statement that AP is 'falling behind'? And is there a day targeted for turning off the MB wu generation, which I am assuming is in the back of your mind? I'm assuming here, but I think Matt meant that more AP splitters would be permitted to run, not that any MB splitters would be turned off... ____________ .
	ID: 813506 ·

tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 2953 Credit: 266,849 RAC: 274	Message 813553 - Posted: 1 Oct 2008, 1:36:43 UTC - in response to Message 813489.
	I have Astropulse defined in app_info.xml and have crunched two WUs in about 115 h with app 4.35. Since downloading 4.36 and modifying the file I have not received any Astropulse WU. Tullio ____________
	ID: 813553 ·

muca Send message Joined: 30 Aug 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 4,773,446 RAC: 7,236	Message 813602 - Posted: 1 Oct 2008, 7:28:14 UTC - in response to Message 813553.
	is any syntax for app_info.xml (example) to receive astropulse WUs? I have using AK_v8 and get "Unrecognized XML in parse_init_data_file: computation_deadline" message in stderr.txt file. ____________
	ID: 813602 ·

Byron S Goodgame Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jan 06 Posts: 1151 Credit: 3,936,993 RAC: 0	Message 813639 - Posted: 1 Oct 2008, 11:44:47 UTC - in response to Message 813602.
	is any syntax for app_info.xml (example) to receive astropulse WUs? I have using AK_v8 and get "Unrecognized XML in parse_init_data_file: computation_deadline" message in stderr.txt file. Here's an example of an app info file for SSE3. I'm guessing that's the one you're wanting. It's pretty early in the morning here so you might want to double check it since I just put it together and I don't want to be the reason for more errors, but I'm pretty sure it's correct. ____________
	ID: 813639 ·

William Roeder Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 68 Credit: 516,396 RAC: 129	Message 813655 - Posted: 1 Oct 2008, 13:07:24 UTC - in response to Message 813639.
	http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_advanced.php ____________
	ID: 813655 ·

muca Send message Joined: 30 Aug 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 4,773,446 RAC: 7,236	Message 813656 - Posted: 1 Oct 2008, 13:19:09 UTC - in response to Message 813655. Last modified: 1 Oct 2008, 13:21:33 UTC
	i have found something in init_data.xml file. <project_dir>C:\BOINC\Application Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu</project_dir> in one phrase is used "/" and "\" !?!??!!??? this problems occours after i have installed new 6.2.19 boinc :-E ____________
	ID: 813656 ·

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