Third Time's the Charm (Oct 01 2009)

Message boards : Technical News : Third Time's the Charm (Oct 01 2009)

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Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1375 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 937193 - Posted: 1 Oct 2009, 19:41:59 UTC
	Some random news items as the work week winds down. First, we did finally get some data drives from Arecibo - the last of them until we start observing again in early November (at the earliest). So that'll tide us over for a short while. Second, it seems like the third time's the charm: preliminary results from the third software radar blanked data test are looking good! We might roll this into production as early as next week. This means we can start analyzing a wealth of pre-2008 multibeam data that was otherwise useless. We're still having some science database throughput issues that's keeping us from running the NTPCkr as much as we'd like. More and more this is becoming my number one priority. - 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
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Aurora Borealis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 2975 Credit: 4,238,803 RAC: 2,566	Message 937201 - Posted: 1 Oct 2009, 20:09:32 UTC
	Good news about radar blanking. Fingers crossed that testing continues to produce usable data.
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Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3368 Credit: 25,952,436 RAC: 1,193	Message 937202 - Posted: 1 Oct 2009, 20:10:55 UTC - in response to Message 937193.
	Thanks for the update Matt. Claggy
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zpm Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Apr 08 Posts: 284 Credit: 975,677 RAC: 0	Message 937213 - Posted: 1 Oct 2009, 21:08:38 UTC - in response to Message 937202.
	good to hear on all fronts.. ____________ I recommend Secunia PSI: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ Go Georgia Tech.
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Sebastian M. Bobrecki Send message Joined: 7 Feb 02 Posts: 13 Credit: 15,845,286 RAC: 6	Message 937332 - Posted: 2 Oct 2009, 9:22:43 UTC
	Good to hear that radar blanker seams to work as expected. But if it don't to avoid run out of data and lose some crunchers you may always do some dirty hack like increase result quorum. But this will cost additional space on storage and database of course so it should be extremity. But I hope that it will be unnecessary. So good luck with radar blanker and science db. ____________
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champ Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 12 Mar 03 Posts: 3642 Credit: 1,489,147 RAC: 0	Message 937433 - Posted: 2 Oct 2009, 17:46:08 UTC
	...or maybe we can crunch old workunits twice. ____________
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Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 774 Credit: 23,193,139 RAC: 0	Message 937440 - Posted: 2 Oct 2009, 18:27:37 UTC - in response to Message 937433.
	Or maybe the machines that end up with no work can have a rest + save the owners some electricity...
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 7140 Credit: 3,685,964 RAC: 986	Message 937464 - Posted: 2 Oct 2009, 19:48:51 UTC - in response to Message 937433. Last modified: 2 Oct 2009, 19:49:11 UTC
	...or maybe we can crunch old workunits twice. One of the main ideas behind Boinc is that we don't do that. Boinc let's you do idle work for other projects instead. Happy crunchin', Martin ____________ Mandriva Linux A user friendly OS! See new freedom Mageia2 The Future is what We make IT (GPLv3)
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Francis Noel Send message Joined: 30 Aug 05 Posts: 350 Credit: 41,620,907 RAC: 44,640	Message 937476 - Posted: 2 Oct 2009, 20:16:17 UTC - in response to Message 937464.
	...or maybe we can crunch old workunits twice. One of the main ideas behind Boinc is that we don't do that. Boinc let's you do idle work for other projects instead. Happy crunchin', Martin I believe thats been done already. When SAH_Enhanced came out I'm pretty sure the Classic dataset was put back into the pipes for another go. ____________ The Poopsmith speaketh
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LiliKrist Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 333 Credit: 143,167 RAC: 0	Message 937704 - Posted: 4 Oct 2009, 5:10:04 UTC
	04/10/2009 12:06:51 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 04/10/2009 12:06:51 SETI@home Requesting new tasks 04/10/2009 12:07:01 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 04/10/2009 12:07:01 SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available) =( ____________ N = R x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L
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igppuk Send message Joined: 7 Aug 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 24,236 RAC: 0	Message 937788 - Posted: 5 Oct 2009, 20:44:02 UTC
	hello everybody. whats happened with a server? boinc manager can't get any task for seti@home project 3 days. 05.10.2009 21:59:25 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server is this mean that we have found aliens? :)
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