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WIll SETI @HOME be offline much longer?
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Leppad Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 42,560,175 RAC: 0 |
I do not regularly visit these forums, so I do not really know what is going on. I have donated some money thanks to their email and BOINC notice tab. I have not been able to download any new work units for at least several weeks now. In light of that I have added several other projects such as Cosmology@home and LHC@home. Is there some link I have not been able to find that would let me read about what is going on with SETI at home regarding this problem? Thanks and sorry if I am repeating problems others have recently posted about. |
Gatekeeper Send message Joined: 14 Jul 04 Posts: 887 Credit: 176,479,616 RAC: 0 |
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Leppad Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 42,560,175 RAC: 0 |
Hmmm...OK. Pinging those IP addresses just times out. I am not willing to use a proxy. I am also not willing to give a lot of time to this problem as I have so many other things happening. I just hope they fix it soon as I want to support this search. Although I am interested in continuing to donate my CPU time (and the money required to keep my computers up and running 24/7), I cannot spend hours and hours tracking down a solution. Good luck to the SETI team and to the volunteers in solving this issue, and thank you Gatekeeper for your reply. -Leppad |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Hmmm...OK. Pinging those IP addresses just times out. I am not willing to use a proxy. I am also not willing to give a lot of time to this problem as I have so many other things happening. I just hope they fix it soon as I want to support this search. Although I am interested in continuing to donate my CPU time (and the money required to keep my computers up and running 24/7), I cannot spend hours and hours tracking down a solution. The other option is to find some other BOINC project that you think deserves support and add it to the list of projects that you run. BOINC is perfectly happy splitting the CPU time between projects. There is a list in your UI, and also at http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu, boincstats.com, www.boincsynergy.com, and many other places. BOINC WIKI |
Leppad Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 42,560,175 RAC: 0 |
Yes, thanks, I am currently running LHC@home and cosmology@home but I am really keen on seti@home and I am very disappointed that I can no longer get work units. |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
Did you see that they (probably) fixed the connection problem? Take a look again in the 2 links from the Gatekeeper's post (#2) Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
Leppad Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 42,560,175 RAC: 0 |
Yes, I see they added more memory, however I still cannot download any work units. I keep getting "communication deferred" message in BOINC. Nothing I can do that I know of but wait. |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
Yes, I see they added more memory, however I still cannot download any work units. I keep getting "communication deferred" message in BOINC. Nothing I can do that I know of but wait. "Communication deferred" is normal message (NOT error, NOT warning) - everybody at all times see "Communication deferred" for 5 minutes in Projects tab after [Update] This delay is enabled at SETI server-side around year ago to: - avoid too much load on the scheduling server (it asks BOINC to Not try another automatic connection in the next 5 minutes) - avoid abuse of the [Update] button (previously the delay was 1 minute) Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
(previously the delay was 1 minute) Previously, the delay was 10 seconds (plus 10%). ;-) Gruß, Gundolf |
Leppad Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 42,560,175 RAC: 0 |
Thank you, BilBg, I understand that "communication deferred" is a normal message which appears depending on how busy the servers are, however I have not been able to get any new work units for at least two months on my main workhorse computer. This is why I have added cosmology@home and LHC@home but my primary interest is in seti@home. I have just checked my other computer and much to my surprise I see that it does have some new work units for seti@home, so maybe I now have to look into whether I need to delete and re-install BOINC on my main workhorse. I have to now postulate that the problem lies with my main computer and not with any WAN problems. Thanks to all who responded. |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
I see that tasks have been downloaded on both machines. Likely your cache was full so your computer had to work some of it down before it could download some SETI@Home workunits. |
Leppad Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 42,560,175 RAC: 0 |
Yes Seti@home seems to be working fine now. Thanks. |
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