Panic Mode On (78) Server Problems?

While I cannot confirm it, I will say that, based on the way most SETI logic has been written, the limits are most likely 100 CPU units per host and 100 GPU units per host. I know this is not what any of us want to hear, but I suspect it is the case. :(

Tried that route as well. It works ( SOMETIMES)

I surely hope this problem gets ironed out.

Me thinks an anvil might not be adequate :

Missed the edit window, but the more I think about it, the gpu limit may be total gpu rather than per gpu. Was a quick and dirty implementation. Can anyone confirm?

Appologies if I have missed something, been busy this week, but is there not a major logic problem here? I have just run Boinc Rescheduler on my No2 cruncher and it tells me I have 324 tasks in progress whilst my SETI account page for this PC shows 426 in progress, so presumably 102 ghosts. Cruncher No2 cannot currently get any more tasks off SETI as it is over the newly imposed limit, so it cannot download these ghosts and get them off the system. For this cruncher the situation will presumably eventually resolve itself as it has a GPU and so should be allowed a total of 200 WUs. So when the SETI total in progress drops below 200 I assume the ghosts will be resent.

However, by analogy, my No1 cruncher with a GTX460 graphics card probably has arround 1000 ghosts out of 4000 WU in total at present. It will never be able to get down to 200 WU as it has more than that many ghosts and SETI will not give it the ghosts until it has less than 200 in total! Eventually therefore it will end up doing nothing (or more likely crunching Einstein) and the 1000 ghosts will stay in the SETI system for ever.
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I figure, in about 4 hours, our little yellow
feathered friend will show up to join the party.

Missed the edit window, but the more I think about it, the gpu limit may be total gpu rather than per gpu. Was a quick and dirty implementation. Can anyone confirm?

Looks like that is what it is.

What SETI Really Needs And Our Current Data Problems $350 Gift On The Way

By Frank Elliott, Brother Frank on Seti@Home

It's very discouraging to be purchasing computers especially designed or manufactured to give my wife and I a high level of Seti @ Home signal crunching and read very little about any efforts being made to solve problems undercutting our ability to do work for the project. However, I think the problem is not likely that of the dedicated staff and scientists at Seti not wanting to communicate with us. I think instead it is a funding problem at the personnel level and at the equipment and communication level too. I think too that many of us may want to and be able to step in for funding help. The difficulty I see is that I really don't know what would be needed to get the project running well in terms of handling the huge amount of data that needs to be analyzed. We probably need an interim funding goal and a continued yearly funding goal. I don't know either if there are gifted people willing to step in, but who absolutely must have it be a paid job so that they can support themselves and their families. There is a severe loss in productivity and turnover if the project relies on too many part-time and volunteer positions at headquarters. Continuity and staff knowledge and skills are so important in the medium and long term.

I am able to do the following. I have about 200 dollars in one of my bonus accounts for a credit card and can use it to pay the bill for that account. I'll use it this November and send the roughly 200 I didn't have to pay to Seti. I also have another 150 bucks from a bank bonus account for reaching some goals. I will send that to Seti too. I hope some of you or maybe many of you who can will send money you have in bonus or credit giving card accounts to Seti. So, the next business day, On next Monday, I will send $350 to Seti. I am wanting Seti to dedicate $175 of that money toward staff and $175 toward equipment if they can. However, this first year, you may use this money in a general account toward any of your needs as you see fit.

When my life and I lived in Toledo almost thirty years ago, we belonged to an Astronomy Society. I believe there were about 100 of us. We had a fund drive to build a rather large 25 inch reflecting telescope, the mounting, and an observatory. You wouldn't believe how much money we raised in that small group. Owens Corning donated the 25 inch mirror blank to us and we ground it ourselves. Other people stepped in with a land donation. We all worked helping to build the telescope and the observatory and then mount the big rotating dome on top of the building.

I hope that Seti can raise several million dollars a year. We should be able to with the dedicated volunteers we have. We will need a much larger fund raising group and many contacts with local and national media to spread the word that we are serious about finding a way to continue funding the project. Then, other large donors like Paul Allen and many medium and small ones will step in too. We need the help of a dedicated group of small donors year after year with sustaining pledges like Public Television does, with one at a time pledges, and with large donation that do special things. I have been taught in fundraising that most large donors don't want to supply ongoing funding to a project and that it is very important for a project to have a self-sustaining base. Then that attracts donors who want to help with the very important extra's that are very important but not quite essential and start up funds like Paul Allen provided for the Allen Telescope Array. So $350 is my immediate pledge.

I hope many of you out there will donate as much as you comfortably can to Seti's fundraising for this year and on a regular basis if you can. I will make further donations as I am able, but the majority of that is contingent on Seti really deciding what it wants to do on a yearly basis and what that would cost.

I want that to be realistic. Not a low ball figure that counts on all kinds of good possibilities happening. Not a high ball figure that goes far beyond making the staff adequate and solving some very severe problems we are having now like getting data into and out of the volunteers. I have watched as things have gone down hill with data delivery and data input problem since about last February. It is now about as bad as it can get for very high level crunchers, perhaps in the top 200. For me at 313 now in the top 1,000 participants (about 34,300 RAC) it is a big issue running around to my computers and turning no new tasks on and off and then remembering to turn new tasks on so I can get some data to crunch.

Please, please SETI. Let us know what you need and make a reasonable budget. I know many, many of us are willing and able to help. One time small donations of $l0 or more are also going to help, but just think what having 10,000 donors who are willing to send $200 to $500 per year and above to the project would do. The project would be on firm footing. What is $350 average times 10,000. It is 3.5 million dollars. My wife and I have donated a few hundred to $1,000 per year to many projects over the years. I don't understand why Seti could not be one of those for us and perhaps many of us who are committed to astronomy and space exploration, and the search for intelligent civilizations in our galaxy and it star systems that we can target as likely locations for life. That would work for the project wouldn't it. I am thinking it would make people like Paul Allen very happy too. My first donation of $350 will be sent to you online or via the web on Monday.
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Frank Elliott,Member of Carepages.com,a chronic illness support site. Was FrankLivingFully there.Free user name & pw needed. My Google+ Profile is:
https://profiles.google.com/u/0/10871372137584 Science,SF,Space,Astronomy,Medicine,Psyc Topics.

Missed the edit window, but the more I think about it, the gpu limit may be total gpu rather than per gpu. Was a quick and dirty implementation. Can anyone confirm?

Looks like that is what it is.

A shame if it is the case.

Would be better if they could have just overridden people's cache settings. Set it to 2 days for now, that will get us through most outages.
Although given the difference in work fetch between v6.x & v7.x clients that probably wouldn't work to well either.

The present settings will mean i'll run out of GPU work during the weekly outages. Probably CPU work as well on my i7 if they're mostly shorties.

Your Karma is good.
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