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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 958143 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 0:30:10 UTC
	Oy! So the day ended yesterday with some good and bad news. The good news was that the air conditioning problems we were having were not due to our a/c unit, but due to the whole building turning off some circulation fans in order to save money over the holidays. Apparently these fans have been helping us out a lot. So we got them to turn those fans back on again until we figure out a better situation in the new year. At least they said they'd turn them back on again... The bad news was that we discovered that spikes and gaussians were failing to be inserted into the science database by the assimilators. These were actually two separate problems that pretty much ate up our entire day today trying to figure out. The spike table simply needed more space. The gaussian table errors were terribly misleading, and we barked up several trees before determining there was some corruption in one of the indexes. We dropped a couple of the less crucial indexes until we were able to insert gaussians again. Jeez. Other than that... we're ramping down our presence here at the lab now that the holidays and forced furloughs are upon us, but we'll of course be popping in from time to time anyway (remotely or directly) to deal with various chores, including this massive power outage on Sunday/Monday. Happy remainder of the year! - 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: 958143 ·

Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3363 Credit: 25,949,683 RAC: 1,140	Message 958149 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 0:44:47 UTC - in response to Message 958143.
	Thanks for the update Matt. Claggy
	ID: 958149 ·

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10317 Credit: 5,082,177 RAC: 6,046	Message 958150 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 0:47:57 UTC
	Thanks for the updates. Always appreciated.
	ID: 958150 ·

Chris Campbell Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 17 Credit: 1,922,053 RAC: 902	Message 958175 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 2:47:43 UTC - in response to Message 958143.
	Hey, so the Technical News page has been broken for over a week now ("Database Error"). Can someone fix that? It's at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php , and linked from the home page as "Technical News". ____________ Running S@H since Day 1 -- May 14th, 1999!
	ID: 958175 ·

Frosted Send message Joined: 11 Jul 99 Posts: 83 Credit: 3,898,641 RAC: 0	Message 958234 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 7:51:26 UTC - in response to Message 958175.
	Hey, so the Technical News page has been broken for over a week now ("Database Error"). Can someone fix that? It's at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php , and linked from the home page as "Technical News". Chris, I believe the reason is that it was moved to here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=908 ____________
	ID: 958234 ·

Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11635 Credit: 1,999,430 RAC: 4,225	Message 958236 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 8:00:49 UTC - in response to Message 958143.
	So we got them to turn those fans back on again until we figure out a better situation in the new year. Open up a window? ;-) Happy holidays to you and the rest of the crew! Hopefully you have a silent Christmas, without needing to rush over when things go down. ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
	ID: 958236 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3278 Credit: 76,703,188 RAC: 76,950	Message 958237 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 8:15:04 UTC - in response to Message 958236.
	So we got them to turn those fans back on again until we figure out a better situation in the new year. Open up a window? ;-) Happy holidays to you and the rest of the crew! Hopefully you have a silent Christmas, without needing to rush over when things go down. If they had windows then they would know when it's day/night & might stop working. :D Have a good holiday there & stay out of the office! :P ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
	ID: 958237 ·

Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3075 Credit: 341,498 RAC: 85	Message 958249 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 9:27:54 UTC - in response to Message 958234.
	Chris, I believe the reason is that it was moved to here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=908 Naa, that's the News subforum, not the Technical news. Gruß, Gundolf
	ID: 958249 ·

Chris Campbell Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 17 Credit: 1,922,053 RAC: 902	Message 958325 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 21:13:40 UTC - in response to Message 958249.
	Well, it's fixed now, so thanks to whomever fixed it :) ____________ Running S@H since Day 1 -- May 14th, 1999!
	ID: 958325 ·

DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1040 Credit: 485,117 RAC: 71	Message 958326 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 21:13:41 UTC - in response to Message 958143.
	Thanks for the update, Matt. I look forward to your next update after the power outage on Monday. Until then, Merry Christmas and all that jazz. :)
	ID: 958326 ·

[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6567 Credit: 50,754,860 RAC: 20,369	Message 958346 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 23:05:22 UTC
	Matt, Merry Christmas to you and your family and friends! Also to the whole SETI@home crew and all others here around, Merry Christmas! ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
	ID: 958346 ·

LiliKrist Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 333 Credit: 143,167 RAC: 0	Message 958419 - Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 4:23:22 UTC
	A merry Christmas to you Master Matt and your family too! ____________ N = R x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L
	ID: 958419 ·

S@NL - Eesger Send message Joined: 7 Oct 01 Posts: 384 Credit: 27,262,639 RAC: 31,440	Message 958463 - Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 8:21:32 UTC
	Merry Christmas and an happy and successful new year to all and especially to the Berkeley crew! PS: and don't catch that cold I caught ;) ____________ The SETI@Home Gauntlet 2012 april 16 - 30\| info / chat \| STATS
	ID: 958463 ·

Julie Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 8401 Credit: 1,398,150 RAC: 4,775	Message 958611 - Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 23:23:21 UTC
	Thanks for the update Matt. Wishing you and the rest of the staff at SETI@home a merry christmas and all the best for the new year! ____________
	ID: 958611 ·

335deezl Send message Joined: 8 Jan 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 11,873,475 RAC: 380	Message 958796 - Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 5:30:22 UTC - in response to Message 958611.
	Hope Everyone has a wonderful, safe Christmas!! ____________
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Keith T. Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 Aug 99 Posts: 738 Credit: 230,190 RAC: 3	Message 958820 - Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 12:25:57 UTC - in response to Message 958143. Last modified: 26 Dec 2009, 12:35:13 UTC
	Will the http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ servers also be affected by the power outage? I seem to remember that those servers used to be co-located with S@h servers. I checked the BOINC front page, there is no warning there of a power outage at the moment. Hope everything goes down and back up smoothly. Keith [edit] Also I assume that http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI Beta will also be down as well. No warning on that site either, although it will affect a lot less people than BOINC servers going down, which is linked from every BOINC project.[/edit]
	ID: 958820 ·

1mp0£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 958844 - Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 17:53:03 UTC - in response to Message 958820.
	Will the http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ servers also be affected by the power outage? I seem to remember that those servers used to be co-located with S@h servers. If you crunch more than one project, and the other project(s) are up, it won't affect you at all. If you have enough work in your cache, it will be a non-event. If you're brand new to volunteer computing, and you want to download BOINC, that will be more of an issue. ____________
	ID: 958844 ·

Fred J. Verster Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3232 Credit: 31,585,541 RAC: 1	Message 958873 - Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 22:00:12 UTC - in response to Message 958844.
	Best wishes to you, Matt and the entire Berkeley crew for the new year, 2010. ____________ Knight Who Says Ni N!, OUT numbered.................
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Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11635 Credit: 1,999,430 RAC: 4,225	Message 959021 - Posted: 27 Dec 2009, 16:28:30 UTC - in response to Message 958820.
	Will the http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ servers also be affected by the power outage? I think so, since it lives in the same building as the Seti project. Not sure if it's in the same server cabinet, but since the power outage for the major power upgrade will affect several buildings, it doesn't really matter where in the building the server is. ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
	ID: 959021 ·

[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6567 Credit: 50,754,860 RAC: 20,369	Message 959109 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 1:19:59 UTC
	Matt, something is broken.. NC subforum: [WARNING: All tasks result in VALIDATE ERRORS 29/12] Results before and after the outage go in 'validate error's. ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
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