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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Yes, that is one artifact from the Classic days than can and should be pulled out of the code. Might even free up a few machine cycles and disk space as the server won't have to encode the data before transmission. |
Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 654 Credit: 18,623,738 RAC: 45 |
But there is nothing to compress... Now who is having trouble reading the thread? You will be assimilated...bunghole! |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Bad Idea. Some ISPs re-compress jpg files to save transmission space. jpg is NOT a lossless compression mechanism. Any packet inspection that tries to reassamble them as either a jpg or gif to see if there were a trojan burried (deep packed inspection) would fail to generate a valid file, and pitch the result. BOINC WIKI |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
But there is nothing to compress... Not going to happen anyway. And it is official, too many CUDA crunchers. Demand now exceeds supply. Put those backup projects online for the foreseeable future. Lower your SETI share. |
Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 654 Credit: 18,623,738 RAC: 45 |
Isn't that something most people should have done since day one? :) You will be assimilated...bunghole! |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
... or leave everything as-is and don't sweat it. Frankly, looking at it from the "backup project" point of view, why would I (as the manager of a project) want a whole bunch of fickle users who only show up when one of the big projects is down. I like SETI, I don't do other projects, and I accept that things won't always be great, but when I have crunched multiple projects, I've always given the others a decent share. If the cricket graphs are any indication, things will level off. |
Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 654 Credit: 18,623,738 RAC: 45 |
TBH if I were running a volunteer-based DC project, I'd be happy with whatever contributions I got, regardless of why I got them. That's just me though. You will be assimilated...bunghole! |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
It depends. I read somewhere that Einstein was "taken down" by the influx from a recent SETI outage. If the cost of those occasional crunchers is angry loyal users, that may be an easy choice. |
zpm Send message Joined: 25 Apr 08 Posts: 284 Credit: 1,659,024 RAC: 0 |
some systems get strained by others going down.... seti should have a sign-up list for back-up projects so that no one project get strained... say like i would say that im going to wcg... other go to milky, to ross, all those with a 50+ sp cuda card, go to gpugrid... VTU@home could use another 20,000 users/host..... edit: to me, seti troubles arn't a biggy as i let a lot of others to run on cpu, and let gpu run ggrid, and seti.... but it more recntly has been a problem as i bought 2 nvid cards to let seti cuda run on those old p4s.. my p4's and P-M are running milky, and have vtu as a back-up(now that the server is back and beter maintained.) for cpu... I recommend Secunia PSI: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ Go Georgia Tech. |
Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 654 Credit: 18,623,738 RAC: 45 |
Yeah that's a good point. I wonder why everybody chose Einstein though? World Community Grid is a much better funded project currently seeking a cure for AIDS, Muscular Dystrophy, Dengue Fever, and other stuff. Perhaps it would be wise to put a list of alternative projects such as WCG on the main Seti site, since Matt admitted that the current issues aren't going away anytime soon. If people spread the backup load amongst WCG, Einstein, Milkyway, GPUGrid, etc...then it wouldn't be a problem. You will be assimilated...bunghole! |
zpm Send message Joined: 25 Apr 08 Posts: 284 Credit: 1,659,024 RAC: 0 |
hmmm, lets see.. vtu@home Einstein Comso Aqua WCG Rosseta GGrid Docking(oops i forgot it in the org. post.) Milky CPDN Other math projects.... which i don't part in but would be willingly if i needed too... I recommend Secunia PSI: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ Go Georgia Tech. |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
For some reason, I can't get excited about Biomedical research. Sure, it's worthy and all that, but learning that we're not alone would be life-changing, while medicine is just life-extending. Important, but it doesn't stir the imagination. Same with gravity waves. Unless someone figures out how to modulate them and ride their equivalent of "I Love Lucy" on the g-waves, I don't feel a deep need to tune in. So, I crunch here, using computers that are on anyway, and if the cache runs dry, it runs dry. There will be more work another day. I don't have access to what Matt can see, but I look at the bandwidth graphs, and it looks like things were really good from the 27th to the 1st. Nearly pegged at the beginning of the day on the 27th. The heavy load hit on the 2nd, and the glitch that killed the raw storage (mentioned in Matt's post) probably also hurt, but I expect things will settle SOME once we get past this rush. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22202 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
...///... Has anyone noticed that the splitter working on 05mr09af appears to be 'stuck'? Its been at the same point since the servers came back up on Tuesday... 19th July, and 05mr09af is still stuck - something amiss me thinks as others have been split and gone in the last two weeks..... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
...///... Has anyone noticed that the splitter working on 05mr09af appears to be 'stuck'? Its been at the same point since the servers came back up on Tuesday... 29th July, going for a full month. I have visions of all the other files going (done) and disappearing before new data arrives from Arecibo.... Joe |
SteveL Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 10 Credit: 149,026 RAC: 0 |
...///... Has anyone noticed that the splitter working on 05mr09af appears to be 'stuck'? Its been at the same point since the servers came back up on Tuesday... I've been following this unit for some time wondering if it would ever disappear... Guess what, it's been stuck again for some days |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
...///... Has anyone noticed that the splitter working on 05mr09af appears to be 'stuck'? Its been at the same point since the servers came back up on Tuesday... 31st August, two full months, and the other files have indeed gone (done). So 05mr09af gets the undivided attention of a splitter - and breaks it. I wonder whether 16jl09ab, 27fe08ac, and 30jl09aa will become long-term fixtures too, or whether by drawing attention to themselves like this, they'll trigger a bout of spring-cleaning when the boyz get in. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22202 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Of your Three Amigos for 05mr09af two have departed for the time being, leaving 27fe08ac sitting with all its APs done, and one MB in progress, with no more MB in progress. Just a thought - are the Berkeley Boyz trying to flush out the badies? Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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