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Message 1306541 - Posted: 15 Nov 2012, 19:42:01 UTC - in response to Message 1306456.  
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Other projects using BOINC are not having these problems.

Seti has never promised Wu's 24/7, Boinc is designed so it doesn't need 24/7 uptime, and Seti has on it's front page:

Keep your computer busy when SETI@home has no work - participate in other BOINC-based projects.

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Message 1306542 - Posted: 15 Nov 2012, 19:44:22 UTC
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I can not believe that Jill and Seth would be happy about this if they knew what has been happening.

Seth Shostak and Jill Tarter are part of the SETI Institute, which as far as I am aware has no direct connection to SETI@Home
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Message 1306544 - Posted: 15 Nov 2012, 19:46:37 UTC - in response to Message 1306444.  

I have also sent you a PM, Clyde.

As I told Harry62, I sincerely hope that you will not decide to leave the SETI project.

Regardless, I wish to thank you, too, for all the time and effort you have given us!
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Message 1306557 - Posted: 15 Nov 2012, 20:20:59 UTC - in response to Message 1306542.  

I can not believe that Jill and Seth would be happy about this if they knew what has been happening.

Seth Shostak and Jill Tarter are part of the SETI Institute, which as far as I am aware has no direct connection to SETI@Home

I thought Jill and Seth stole the NSF funding that used to go to SETI@Home.

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Message 1306659 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 3:37:27 UTC - in response to Message 1306557.  

I understand that the Seti Institute has no direct connection, but where does the computer time come from to analyze the massive amounts of data generated by the telescopes. It comes from volunteers who donate power and equipment wear to the cause. If that is not what we are here for then, what is the use to stay around. Does the Institute wish to drop us and just pay for Super computer time to do the grunt work. Maybe you are right the institute does not care about our work. That might explain why we have these problems.


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This certifies that team

Clemson University Team 1

has participated in SETI@home since 1 March 1999, and has contributed 99,586,993 Cobblestones of computation (86.04 quintillion floating-point operations) to SETI@home.




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Message 1306661 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 4:33:15 UTC - in response to Message 1306659.  

I understand that the Seti Institute has no direct connection, but where does the computer time come from to analyze the massive amounts of data generated by the telescopes. It comes from volunteers who donate power and equipment wear to the cause. If that is not what we are here for then, what is the use to stay around. Does the Institute wish to drop us and just pay for Super computer time to do the grunt work. Maybe you are right the institute does not care about our work. That might explain why we have these problems.

The Seti Institute is completely separate from SETI@Home. Two different organizations. They do not share anything, instead they compete for funding from NASA / NSF / Private Donors. Every dollar to the Seti Institute is a dollar that is not available to SETI@Home. Right now the Seti Institute is "sexy" so they are getting the funding that used to come to SETI@Home. Any wonder why stuff is breaking here?

Your computer time is appreciated.


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Message 1306675 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 5:18:06 UTC

I am a long time Seti@Home supporter. I started with Seti@home started. Since the change over to Boinc there has been a change. First, we were treated as nothing because we had old "Work Units" and "Time". Second, Seti only wanted the very fastest computers. Third, Seti did not want to run all the time. The project has gone down hill; results nill. The attitude is do the work units, when we give them to you and be quiet. The project is down Tuesdays for maintenance; the only thing regular about it. Yes, they should do their own work or get a better network to handle the traffic. I have said before farm out the network to someone that can handle it. Seti@Home is running people away!I have tried; in the past to not say bad things about the project. The Newbies will talk bad about you, but Seti@home is getting free computing and they should at least run themselves as if they care. I have been cutting back and may still cut back more. Fix the project or get out of the business. Seti@Home is wasting computer time.
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Message 1306678 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 5:33:19 UTC

Guys, can you please move your discussion that are NOT concerned with the database failure to the appropriate place:
Comments, cries for assistance and complaints about the general performance of S@H to "Number Crunching".
Comments and discussion about milestones reached also go there, where there is a thread (Milestones xx) especially for you.
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Message 1306758 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 13:48:29 UTC

Seti@home outage and unavailability is a concern for me too.
Servers/bandwidth are overflowing 90% of the time leaving very poor connection rate.
http://fragment1.berkeley.edu/newcricket/grapher.cgi?target=%2Frouter-interfaces%2Finr-250%2Fgigabitethernet2_3;view=Octets

It is as shame that funding is so low. Why? Because there is a big and growing user enthusiasm. Seti@home is #1 Boinc. Seti@home active users are growing:
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/project/detail/user
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Message 1306769 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 14:27:06 UTC - in response to Message 1306764.  

Well... I posted to this thread out of frustration, and most of the comments have re-enforced my main frustration.

We are just talking to ourselves. Where is the response and communication from Berkeley?

It would only take a few seconds to post what the problems are, and possible time frame for a fix. Would it really matter if it would take days, or weeks to fix, if we - The Volunteers - were given this information?

There is no understandable reason to keep us in the dark.

Maybe because they don't know what the problem is, they're still trying to figure it out. Maybe because they're human beings just like us and after a long day of trying to figure it out and doing all the other scientific stuff they have to do, they just want to go home and not take a few minutes more to explain the stuff that's still frustrating them.

And for all those who say no other project has these problems, if they had as many users as Seti@home, they'd have the problems too.

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Message 1306777 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 14:54:15 UTC - in response to Message 1306769.  

The problem is that the infrastructure (servers and bandwidth capacity) is way under what is needed for the current operation.
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Message 1306779 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 15:01:37 UTC - in response to Message 1306777.  

The problem is that the infrastructure (servers and bandwidth capacity) is way under what is needed for the current operation.

BINGO. There are more volunteers than there is data. Result frustration.

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Message 1306784 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 15:28:21 UTC

To the project admins:
Will (have) you consider asking the university giving you a second network line to ease the data connection?
Do you have enough Aceribo data? Will you look for alternate Radio telescope data?
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Message 1306792 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 16:06:58 UTC - in response to Message 1306769.  

David, perhaps even that simple statement from the project folks 'we know there is a problem, we still haven't figured out exactly what it is' - might help regarding 'mood'.

Given the oft cited -- too many users, not enough resources -- mantra, one folks have heard here for years, perhaps an extended unresolved problem here might finally result in an adequate user shift over to other projects, thus reducing the load here. There are other projects pushing quite a lot of data about - including in the astrophysics area (Einstein and Milkyway). This project not only has a very large user load, but also has a fairly high (relative to other projects) resource capability. Perhaps a 20% drop off in user activity here, redirected to other projects, might be the actual form of 'load balancing' needed here.

I'm not saying that as a result of frustration, rather it seems that SETI has quite a decent set of resources and simply might be at an activity level where greater resources might not be as effectively 'deployable' here as people believe.

That being said, it is hard to accept the problems of the last two weeks are really as user activity dependent as some seem to believe. It isn't as if SETI has all of a sudden acquired a surge of new users. I realize that changes regarding Astropulse might have spiked activity -- though if that were the case, I would think that backing off there might resolve things.

Frankly, I think the current problem is not a user activity surge, but some, as yet undetermined gremlin which introduced itself two or three weeks ago and thus hasn't been tracked down and dealt with.

Again, in terms of mood, if that is the situation, those who are frustrated might be less frustrated if this was acknowledged.

As for me, SETI is but one of many projects on my plate, and with the current situation, I simply have let SETI caches drift down. I do find that when I have some time to 'work the problem' from the user side -- since I do have a proxy server which can *sometimes* be encouraged to work around the SETI project based problem we are all facing -- I can get some small about of additional work.





Maybe because they don't know what the problem is, they're still trying to figure it out. Maybe because they're human beings just like us and after a long day of trying to figure it out and doing all the other scientific stuff they have to do, they just want to go home and not take a few minutes more to explain the stuff that's still frustrating them.

And for all those who say no other project has these problems, if they had as many users as Seti@home, they'd have the problems too.

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Message 1306796 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 16:18:06 UTC - in response to Message 1306779.  

The problem is that the infrastructure (servers and bandwidth capacity) is way under what is needed for the current operation.

BINGO. There are more volunteers than there is data. Result frustration.

No, there's plenty of data, just not enough capacity to distribute it and collect the results.

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Message 1306800 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 16:28:47 UTC - in response to Message 1306784.  

To the project admins:
Will (have) you consider asking the university giving you a second network line to ease the data connection?
Do you have enough Aceribo data? Will you look for alternate Radio telescope data?

Yes, they've asked the university for more network capacity. There's a lot of internal politics involved in that and it would probably only be worse if a lot of outsiders tried to stick their noses into it.

And yes, they have plenty of Arecibo data. There is also Green Bank data coming along soon (or maybe it's out already, I forget).

You sound like you're trying to diagnose the problem based on the message your computer keeps getting "Project has no work available." This is a bit misleading. It just means there is no work of the type you're asking for available in the scheduler's queue at the exact moment you asked. Two seconds later, there probably would be. There are plenty of problems, but lack of data to crunch is not one of them.

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Message 1306912 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 21:29:22 UTC - in response to Message 1306796.  

The problem is that the infrastructure (servers and bandwidth capacity) is way under what is needed for the current operation.

BINGO. There are more volunteers than there is data. Result frustration.

No, there's plenty of data, just not enough capacity to distribute it and collect the results.

I believe that is what I said. The only valid question is data being collected that never will be analyzed? The answer to that is no. Does it matter if the data is analyzed next week or next decade? No.

However there is a real issue. Is say the optical Seti search data being combined with radio Seti search data? No. That means if ET alternates between radio and optical contact methods, we won't find them. There is no single Seti clearing house.


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Message 1306964 - Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 23:40:38 UTC - in response to Message 1298434.  

I have had problems with my 'SETI@Home Advanced' Tasks with a Status: Waiting to Run. Can only assume this might have something to do with the outage. Everything was going ok until I had to reboot my system. I also lost a couple of other projects as well.

I also joined Enigma 0.76a/0.76b (USA/UK)today. When I worked at RSRE Malvern, in Worcestershire in the late 80's, I got to play with an original German 4-rotor Enigma machine.
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Message 1307089 - Posted: 17 Nov 2012, 14:07:31 UTC - in response to Message 1302483.  

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Message 1307179 - Posted: 17 Nov 2012, 21:37:18 UTC

Matt; Some of the previous posts recommended doing other projects while waiting and waiting for Seti. That may have been a strategy to get users to use Seti less and maybe ultimately leave Seti and have more of Seti to themselves. Whatever the reason As of now SETI community, I have taken the dedicated (Intel(R) Xeon(R)CPU X5650@ 2.67GHz[Family6 Model 44 Stepping 2](24 processors)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 (1023MB) driver: 301.42) away from the SETI Project because of inadequate Server Bandwidth and several Programing issues that impact overall Reliability and Functionally. All that has significantly diminished my sense of any doing any meaningful scientific contribution with Seti@Home. I started with SETI in June of 1999. I currently rank 9,667 out of 2,488,900 (99.6116 percentile)
I will keep the laptop,(Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz [Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5](8 processors)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M (1535MB) driver: 306.23) with only 4 0f the 8 processors running because of heat issues. Token effort only to SETI.
I would say to the rest of the Seti Community "Good Luck" but think it will take more than that. Maybe with me not trying to get wu's or taking up Bandwidth it will be minimally better for the rest of you.
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