Up (Dec 07 2010)

LOL nice 1 - starting to get a bit of VFM...

Thanks for the info guys, I'm finally back in the project, at full speed :). Cheers!

Hot damn! I finally received some numbers to crunch.
Thankx all the hard work.


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No need for an announcement. The BOINC software was written to take care of sites that have no work for an extended period. Look at LHC@home.

The problem is that many people (including myself) had set Seti to NNT during the downtime. They might not change it back to ANT until they know the project is back up and new work is being created.

Justin

What incredible timing. I was just talking to Cisco engineer yesterday. He was telling me about a really kick but server they have developed that has more ram slots than you can shake a stick at. The idea was a low cost system that let an administrator load all the slots with lower cost memory (smaller sizes) then upgrade later as costs fall. I really don't know much about the hardware but when he started tell me about the blades, the first thing that came to mind was SETI and it's update status.

The Cisco Engineer said that most likely SETI has already spoken with a Cisco rep. I'll trust that's true, but if not, you guys might be missing out. Maybe next upgrade? He said the hardware was 100% compatible with all existing architecture without any alterations needed. The hardware also favors Virtualized environments where the Hyper Visor watches over all.

Anyway, I am totally stoked to see the servers back up and running. My work unit average has been dropping hard for weeks. Looking forward to the Rocket trail take off.

Thank you for all the work. I had just built three new FreeBSD(old) machines for seti when the project went off line. Lol, timing is everything. I thought I had done something wrong with setting up seti because I had no wu's for those machines.

But all is well for both the seti project and all the machines I have crunching numbers.

Again, thank you.
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Matt. if you need to take anything down, no worries. It is if it crashes unexpectedly we start to cringe. We spend a lot of time and energy re-arranging those 0's and 1's.. hate to see them scattered on the floor.
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Janice

Okay, I know I'll get a lot of flack for this question, but since I don't know the WU system flow, I'll ask it.

From looking at the Server Status Page, I believe that there are (at least) two problems in evidence: 1.) Low WU creation rate, and 2.) Slow assimiliation rate.

My logic tells me that the BOINC database server (Carolyn) is where the WUs are assigned among all the client computers (and probably affects the creation rates), while the Science database (Oscar) only comes into play at the time of assimiliation.

So, am I correct in the belief that tinkering with Oscar's DB settings would affect the assimiliation speed, and tinkering with Carolyn's DB settings would affect the WU creation rate (and deletions, purges, etc)?

I realize that the internal file server, Ptolemy, is probably in the mix too, but, to my knowledge, that server has not yet been changed over to it's replacement, which will be Thumper. So, no settings on that machine have been altered as yet.

Thanks in advance for enlightening me.

Whit

Actually I do not see a slow creation or assimilation rate. The "tapes" are only going to put out work units so fast. The assimilation is not seriously backlogged, the queries are not out of line on Carolyn, and Jocelyn seems to be keeping up just fine. The results in the field are going up at a fair rate, and turn around time is not out of line. Can they do better? Probably, but give them a chance to tune it. The biggest thing is, we are working again, have not crashed, do not seem to be over-stressing the servers yet.
Once they get it all tuned, Oscar should be able to handle anything thumper did with lots of room to spare.

The most impressive change I have seen is we are getting our units through the transfers MUCH faster than I have seen. This seems to be saving bandwidth.

Further questions are probably best in number crunching. We pick everything apart in there.
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Janice

Thanks to everyone in the lab for all their hard work. I guess I'll have to find an excuse to go down to the basement and wake up BOINC. (I removed it from Windows scheduled tasks when I started having Einstein trouble, so it only runs if I log on.) I will only let it have 1 task until I know if SETI will also cause a crash, though.

David

Greetings David,

Not to veer off topic but...

I have been reading so much about others having a problem running Einstein. This has really go me stumped now. I have been having problems with my i7 PC ever since I re-attached to Einstein 30 some days ago. I cannot get to the bottom of the problem. Here's a link to a thread I started on the Einstein forum. Please read that thread and let me know if any of it pertains to your problem with Einstein.

Thank you! :)

Keep on BOINCing...! :)

Actually I do not see a slow creation or assimilation rate. The "tapes" are only going to put out work units so fast. The assimilation is not seriously backlogged, the queries are not out of line on Carolyn, and Jocelyn seems to be keeping up just fine. The results in the field are going up at a fair rate, and turn around time is not out of line. Can they do better? Probably, but give them a chance to tune it. The biggest thing is, we are working again, have not crashed, do not seem to be over-stressing the servers yet.
Once they get it all tuned, Oscar should be able to handle anything thumper did with lots of room to spare.

The most impressive change I have seen is we are getting our units through the transfers MUCH faster than I have seen. This seems to be saving bandwidth.

Further questions are probably best in number crunching. We pick everything apart in there.

The Berkeley Boys have found the magic cure!

They put Oscar on WU splitting duty, freeing up Vader to concentrate his efforts on the assimiliation task.

The result: Splitters are cranking out about 30+ WU per second and the Ready-To-Send queue is building nicely.

And the Waiting-to-Assimilate queue is dropping like a rock. Paradise at last!

Now you are getting your money's worth! Congratulations yet again !!! (Now I have server envy)