SETI@home scheduler is down until further notice.

I too am a C.T.O. to a bank here in toronto. Knowing what I know about seti, instead of complaining I made a $500 donation just in case they need some new hardware. I always thought europeans were more compassionate. You guys are doing a great job and hope this helps out.
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I didnt realize how much in need you guys were of funds. This incident gave me a wakeup call. I aint a rich man, but I can do my part and part with $50

While I love SETI, I don't mind downtime, as it just give World Community Grid more CPU cycles! I appreciate all that the SETI folks have done, and wish I was in a place to continue $$ support, but do have an idea I can afford to give!

As an only occasional visitor here, please forgive me if this has been considered but rejected...

It seems that some cloud provider would have some spare CPU cycles / bandwidth they could parse out to SETI without impacting paying customers, but could still legitimately be a tax write-off. Since much a SETI processing does not have to be real-time, off-peak processing would be fine. The bandwidth needed, while a significant added load to a University network, could possibly go basically unnoticed on some cloud networks (think Berkeley vs Google or Amazon).

There may be some issues in virtualizing the systems (they are Sun servers, yes?) but it seems that there must be an option...?

Has this been considered? Not feasible? No cloud providers willing?
What would it take to make this happen?

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While I love SETI, I don't mind downtime, as it just give World Community Grid more CPU cycles! I appreciate all that the SETI folks have done, and wish I was in a place to continue $$ support, but do have an idea I can afford to give!

As an only occasional visitor here, please forgive me if this has been considered but rejected...

It seems that some cloud provider would have some spare CPU cycles / bandwidth they could parse out to SETI without impacting paying customers, but could still legitimately be a tax write-off. Since much a SETI processing does not have to be real-time, off-peak processing would be fine. The bandwidth needed, while a significant added load to a University network, could possibly go basically unnoticed on some cloud networks (think Berkeley vs Google or Amazon).

There may be some issues in virtualizing the systems (they are Sun servers, yes?) but it seems that there must be an option...?

Has this been considered? Not feasible? No cloud providers willing?
What would it take to make this happen?

Oh well, I opt out until it's fixed. At least I'll save on the electricity bill!

Funny, I recently resurrected my old May '99 account after I dumped SETI@home mid 2000's due to "Client Error","Client Error","Client Error",... every time I had completed work to report. I knew the problem wasn't on my end so after seven years the same problems persist? Go figure.

It's not right time to complain or doubt.

I got 12 tasks running and so far bunch more waiting to be crunched. I have communication deferred showing up, but I should have enough tasks to hold me off for a day or two.
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Well, I am all caught up and no errors yet. Donation coming in a couple of days.
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Here to be fleeced and milked

I hope you will send out a NEWS item that appears in the BOINC NEWS tab when it gets fixed. I've Suspended the Project so it doesn't keep trying to access the servers.
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I will continue to wait for this downtime. Perhaps the scheduler server has just been up for too long. Maybe restarting would help. In all cases restarting can help a bit freeing up useless swap and main memory. The way I see it is that it hasn't been restarted in so long and huge amounts of RAM is being cluttered up. Just my suggestion. And will patiently wait

I'll have 8 task to go and then my seti guf is empty:(
Are there again problems??? What I don't understand is that
some users at Seti@Netherlands deliver more then 14000 task
work in 4 hours..then they get more then the 100 task a time
That is not honnestly against the other users if I may say.

Sorry just got 70 task;)
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yes, thanks for information and don't bother yourself ;) my BOINC is busy with climateprediction.

I'll have 8 task to go and then my seti guf is empty:(
Are there again problems??? What I don't understand is that
some users at Seti@Netherlands deliver more then 14000 task
work in 4 hours..then they get more then the 100 task a time
That is not honnestly against the other users if I may say.

Sorry just got 70 task;)

yes, thanks for information and don't bother yourself ;) my BOINC is busy with climateprediction.

My systems started downloading again this morning. I've even got my old tasks running now, I had several short tasks which were seemingly being ignored by BOINC, it only seemed to process the new work units. But as a test of my system I turned on the GPU processing options and now the GPU is picking off these short tasks which I've had sitting around for over a week.

I was just about to consider re-installing boinc because I thought it must have a problem because it was ignoring all the short tasks in my cache. I've never had the GPU enabled before so wasn't expecting the work units to need to have GPU enabled as well as CPU for them to be executed.
I read now that the GPU units are downloaded first before any CPU ones, so my system seemed to be picking up the GPU units even though I hadn't enabled GPU before.

I have also at times noticed that in Windows 7 (64bit) in my case, that if it has any Important/recommended windows updates sitting in it's own queue ready to be installed, this seems to prevent BOINC from processing anything until those updates have installed, so perhaps some problems people are having might be windows updates getting in the way?

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