Crisis? What crisis? (Feb 15 2011)

Id say this theme is Supertramp. Great band with some awesome tunes. Back in my day of course:)
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I hope it finishes its 3 remaining Einsteins before they time out.

David

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I think a fully funded budget is around $500,000+ actual budget for the last few years was around $350,000 so only around $150,000 more per year.

Yeah, I already did that, I also have a ton of WUs on "Download Pending". I just rejoined this project after helping out FAH for a few months, so I probably don't have a high enough average completed for the scheduler to assign me more units. Also, have 1 machine with 6 cores and 4 GPUs (Soon to be 6), so it chews through WUs pretty quick. However, I had all of the aforementioned problems when I was very active before and it appears that nothing has really changed. I restarted the other day and now have 13,000 pending, so hopefully some of that will clear and the scheduler will give me a larger number of work units.

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I think a fully funded budget is around $500,000+ actual budget for the last few years was around $350,000 so only around $150,000 more per year.

SETI@home Budget - Fall 2010: $548,000.

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I think a fully funded budget is around $500,000+ actual budget for the last few years was around $350,000 so only around $150,000 more per year.

SETI@home Budget - Fall 2010: $548,000.

From this post by Erik I got the impresion the wish for it budget was $500k+ and they get significantly less for the last several years. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=63148&nowrap=true#1078044 I thought the shortfall was in the $100k + range.

Well, it does appear that the project is running considerably better than a few months ago. Apparently you folks really fixed some things during that last outage. My backlog of work is filling up nicely. I imagine in a couple of days, it will be large enough that i can go a day our two without new WUs.

Pending work sitting at about 40k, and I expect that to go up to about 80 or so. Maybe over 100k after the addition of the next two GPU cores.

Perhaps we can get some organized fundraising going on to help deal with project funding shortfalls?