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Len Send message Joined: 15 Mar 10 Posts: 52 Credit: 11,725,173 RAC: 86 |
My 2 cents . . . Yes. Yes you do. Traffic backs up all the time on overused roads. The road users learn that they either wait to use the shorter, overused road or they take another, less convenient route. You not only chose to use another route, but also felt it necessary to honk your horn at those waiting patiently in line. A network, much like a chain, is only as strong as its weakest link. As someone else has frequently said "You were the weakest link. Goodbye." I shall wait patiently for something that I believe in to recover in its own time. Meanwhile my insignificant machines automatically get to work a little harder for other causes I believe in, while they are not working for me. Len I think I am. Therefore I am. I think. |
dancer42 Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 455 Credit: 2,422,890 RAC: 1 |
The servers that will be bought, how much are they and will more help? |
Bill Send message Joined: 16 Nov 12 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,165,737 RAC: 0 |
Don't sweat it guys. We are all aware that this is pretty much an unpaid job. Take as long as you need to do whatever needs to be done. I for one will be paitently waiting. Good work and good luck. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
My 2 cents . . . As you already decided to leave please don't feel fee to comment here again. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. |
Ralph Send message Joined: 3 Dec 10 Posts: 4 Credit: 1,816,188 RAC: 0 |
My computer is very patient. Happy festive season to all from the other side of the planet. |
robertmiles Send message Joined: 16 Jan 12 Posts: 213 Credit: 4,117,756 RAC: 6 |
The servers that will be bought, how much are they and will more help? I've read in another thread that they won't help much until they have a faster connection to the main internet connection for the campus, and for some reason, that faster connection must be installed underground. |
Gordon Derry Send message Joined: 24 Jan 09 Posts: 2 Credit: 591,225 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the heads up. My computer (poor as it is) and I (likewise) will be here, ready and waiting! :) |
krokus Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 13 Credit: 839,783 RAC: 1 |
Only the first of these links is valid, but it goes to a page with valid links for the others. [/quote] Are there any plans to add processing from these projects to BOINC? (Or are they already on the list, and I missed them?) [/url] |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
My 2 cents . . . No, you are a long-time Seti member who LEFT when the recent troubles started. I am the Senior Network admin, for a medium sized international company, working out of Europe. ...... And as a Senior Network Admin, you know that the only way to do that is to limit the number of participants and/or the number of computers they can attach to the project. This being a University-hosted research project, you CANNOT charge an enrollment fee (Toll Road, to use your analogy). So how do Dr. W and Eric determine who to force out and who to limit access to? Drop loyal, long-term members with older computers or Operating Systems? Limit all members to no more than, say, 4 computers and 4 GPUs? That will hurt some of the most productive, and most loyal, members. Too bad you are not located in California. If you really wanted to help the project, you could volunteer your services. Maybe you could even get a tax deduction for it. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Are there any plans to add processing from these projects to BOINC? (Or are they already on the list, and I missed them?) You would need to ask the people running those projects that question. Grant Darwin NT |
Donald Logan Send message Joined: 17 Nov 12 Posts: 3 Credit: 55,484 RAC: 0 |
Scheduler crashes have continued, so we'll be down until we've isolated and solved the problem. I, for one, will patiently wait. Thank you for what you do! |
Paganswyrd Send message Joined: 27 Jul 11 Posts: 4 Credit: 284,217 RAC: 0 |
Darn! I've got this XPS 8300 with a Pentium Quad running at 2 Gig. It has already crunched all tasks it downloaded just before you went down Friday. Now it's just sitting here trying to upload, and download, so that It can crunch more. The only problem I'm having is the darned timeout when the computer goes to sleep. (:>) |
MK_Priest Send message Joined: 12 Sep 02 Posts: 1 Credit: 158,245 RAC: 0 |
For some reason I haven't noticed any problems with up/download of tasks.. Just returned 5 completed tasks or so and got new ones to crunch, so all is well and the search continues :) |
Bryn Send message Joined: 14 Jul 12 Posts: 4 Credit: 4,480,410 RAC: 7 |
All 4 tasks that were queued to report last night have been sent and there are currently 2 running and 4 waiting to run. I only have a dual core Eee on the job so it will take a little while. Good to see you are up and running again. We are a land of sheep and dairy Here to be fleeced and milked |
Gary Reed Send message Joined: 5 May 06 Posts: 1 Credit: 285,452 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the heads up! |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
At times like this we should all ask ourselves, "What would J.C. do?". (no, not that one.... Jeff Cobb.) |
sheldonr Send message Joined: 24 May 00 Posts: 3 Credit: 4,944,772 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30653 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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. Thank you! |
Archie Send message Joined: 18 Feb 12 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,885,082 RAC: 0 |
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 |
Draconian Send message Joined: 16 Mar 03 Posts: 21 Credit: 1,809,058 RAC: 0 |
Let's all understand something here. We all may think that we know how to run the project better - want them to open up all the source code and details so that we can "fix" them. But - there is the rub. For every great programmer - there are MANY wanna be programmers that will give their suggestions. Simple suggestion - a new PRIVATE thread to the admins - if you want to volunteer your services - state your credentials - and KNOW that you will not have ANY say (and that is how it SHOULD be). For myself - willing to help how I may. 20 years AF experience as a tech controller - and now a geek. Not an expert - but I think outside the box (a lot of the time because I don't know any better). For this project - the scheduler has been the issue - bandwidth - who cares - so - you get your downloads slow - but you GET them if the scheduler isn't crammed. Solutions are many. Bigger work units. Larger queues again with a SET mandatory cool down (half queue until the workstation can try to contact the server). I also see some systems out there with literally thousands of WU each - and tons of errors because of timeouts - what's up with that???? Seem to be getting WU pretty good right now - but systems are set crazy - WHY - when I have 2 completed workunits out of 200 - am I contacting the server for more work??????? AGAIN - PLEASE - set - if possible - a MANDATORY COOL DOWN - half queue - and OPEN THE QUEUE. Let me have 5 days of work - and - you won't hear a PEEP for 2 and a half days. That should ease the congestion on the scheduler. Once again - slow downloads - don't matter. Finally - wondering...why..I download faster and more reliably STILL from a proxy server. Baffling. You use a Linux architecture - Linux boxes, Apple boxes haven't had much trouble. Proxy servers are likely running Apache (again...same TCP/IP stack). What's with windoooooows? ECN? Congestion notification has seemed to make some difference here - maybe about as reliable as my proxy - may be something to look into. Ya'll do what you do - and I respect you for it. However - please - it is REALLY nonsensical for my systems to be requesting workunits when they are essentially 99 or 98 percent FULL. Again - a mandatory cooldown would work wonders - bandwidth be damned. |
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