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Message 1339945 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:09:12 UTC - in response to Message 1339921.  

"Why not increase the limits for this special occasion?"

For the same reason they were installed in the first place.

Also it would not make sense to increase it, I'm pretty sure the bandwidth will be maxed out until the planned outage, i.e. they will send out as many WUs as they can either way (and also probaly assign a lot of WUs, which can't be downloaded before they shut down).

Well....
The kitties have already refilled their caches to the current limits since the servers came back up this morning. I am sure if the limits for GPU tasks were lifted or raised, I could download a significant amount of it or all of it before the servers shut down tomorrow afternoon.
I'd love to be given the chance to prove it to you...LOL.
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Message 1339954 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:19:40 UTC

I just wish I could upload the tasks I have completed.. not having any sucess.
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Message 1339955 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:19:54 UTC - in response to Message 1339945.  

"Why not increase the limits for this special occasion?"

For the same reason they were installed in the first place.

Also it would not make sense to increase it, I'm pretty sure the bandwidth will be maxed out until the planned outage, i.e. they will send out as many WUs as they can either way (and also probaly assign a lot of WUs, which can't be downloaded before they shut down).

Well....
The kitties have already refilled their caches to the current limits since the servers came back up this morning. I am sure if the limits for GPU tasks were lifted or raised, I could download a significant amount of it or all of it before the servers shut down tomorrow afternoon.
I'd love to be given the chance to prove it to you...LOL.


And when the downloads ceased entirely and SAH
comes to a grinding halt because the database has
gone belly up again, what then?
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Message 1339956 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:21:33 UTC - in response to Message 1339955.  

"Why not increase the limits for this special occasion?"

For the same reason they were installed in the first place.

Also it would not make sense to increase it, I'm pretty sure the bandwidth will be maxed out until the planned outage, i.e. they will send out as many WUs as they can either way (and also probaly assign a lot of WUs, which can't be downloaded before they shut down).

Well....
The kitties have already refilled their caches to the current limits since the servers came back up this morning. I am sure if the limits for GPU tasks were lifted or raised, I could download a significant amount of it or all of it before the servers shut down tomorrow afternoon.
I'd love to be given the chance to prove it to you...LOL.


And when the downloads ceased entirely and SAH
comes to a grinding halt because the database has
gone belly up again, what then?

Time to reorganize or get some new DB software that can handle the amount of data in the Seti DB. Rumor has it, they do exist.

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Message 1339966 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:30:06 UTC - in response to Message 1339956.  

"Why not increase the limits for this special occasion?"

For the same reason they were installed in the first place.

Also it would not make sense to increase it, I'm pretty sure the bandwidth will be maxed out until the planned outage, i.e. they will send out as many WUs as they can either way (and also probaly assign a lot of WUs, which can't be downloaded before they shut down).

Well....
The kitties have already refilled their caches to the current limits since the servers came back up this morning. I am sure if the limits for GPU tasks were lifted or raised, I could download a significant amount of it or all of it before the servers shut down tomorrow afternoon.
I'd love to be given the chance to prove it to you...LOL.


And when the downloads ceased entirely and SAH
comes to a grinding halt because the database has
gone belly up again, what then?

Time to reorganize or get some new DB software that can handle the amount of data in the Seti DB. Rumor has it, they do exist.



In that case they should just turn all the hardware off until
they have saved up the money it would take to buy and implement
the software. It shouldn't take more than 5 or 6 months.
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Message 1339972 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:36:02 UTC - in response to Message 1339954.  

I just wish I could upload the tasks I have completed.. not having any sucess.


Is there a trick to get them to upload?
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Message 1339980 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:46:46 UTC - in response to Message 1339945.  

"Why not increase the limits for this special occasion?"

For the same reason they were installed in the first place.

Also it would not make sense to increase it, I'm pretty sure the bandwidth will be maxed out until the planned outage, i.e. they will send out as many WUs as they can either way (and also probaly assign a lot of WUs, which can't be downloaded before they shut down).

Well....
The kitties have already refilled their caches to the current limits since the servers came back up this morning. I am sure if the limits for GPU tasks were lifted or raised, I could download a significant amount of it or all of it before the servers shut down tomorrow afternoon.
I'd love to be given the chance to prove it to you...LOL.

Well, if you get more, somebody else gets less. As long as the bandwidth is saturated, they send out as much as they can, more than that won't be send out whatever the limits are, it will only be assigned. And for the project it does not matter who gets the WUs, so they send out max. 100 or 200 to each machine so everyone can get something.

But maybe it's time to turn on the splitters, otherwise we will indeed not get as much as possible untill the outage.
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Message 1339982 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:47:51 UTC - in response to Message 1339972.  

I just wish I could upload the tasks I have completed.. not having any sucess.


Is there a trick to get them to upload?

Abuse of the "retry" button :-)
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Message 1339984 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 19:52:20 UTC - in response to Message 1339972.  

Would be good to know if there is a trick to get the units to upload and to down load some new ones.

Completely out of seti units sometime earlier today, is this another problem , or someone decide to prepare for the power outage early ?
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Message 1340012 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 21:05:11 UTC - in response to Message 1339984.  

They always do this now. I have seen this on every single outage that they plan for upgrades. They will stop allowing their volunteers to work for them.
I have been for a while and I have done quite a bit of work and I have never seen outages like this. It used to be they would let us fill right up for a planned outage. Now they shut down 2 days before they plan on it. The servers now showing no splitters are up so no work at all. I have spent my entire morning pressing retry just to get my uploads in and I have still only got 20 uploaded.

I have seen more people quit over these issues. These are people who have invested a lot of money building crunching machines and now they sit dormant. The other project especially medical ones are asking us to crunch for them. These are corporations who make huge money on our ability to crunch huge amounts of data.
We have built the fastest computer on the planet and they want to take advantage of that. The only project that I will support is Seti but it is now becoming more of a pain in the butt just to volunteer for them
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Message 1340019 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 21:15:33 UTC - in response to Message 1340012.  

They always do this now. I have seen this on every single outage that they plan for upgrades. They will stop allowing their volunteers to work for them.
I have been for a while and I have done quite a bit of work and I have never seen outages like this. It used to be they would let us fill right up for a planned outage. Now they shut down 2 days before they plan on it. The servers now showing no splitters are up so no work at all. I have spent my entire morning pressing retry just to get my uploads in and I have still only got 20 uploaded.

I have seen more people quit over these issues. These are people who have invested a lot of money building crunching machines and now they sit dormant. The other project especially medical ones are asking us to crunch for them. These are corporations who make huge money on our ability to crunch huge amounts of data.
We have built the fastest computer on the planet and they want to take advantage of that. The only project that I will support is Seti but it is now becoming more of a pain in the butt just to volunteer for them

Not sure why you are having problems, my three S@H rigs have uploaded 100+ and have downloaded the max tasks each, granted it took a little button pushing!!
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Message 1340023 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 21:21:16 UTC - in response to Message 1340019.  

Well , all units now uploaded, but was painfully slow for some reason.

Have managed to just get 107 units, although still downloading at present, keeping fingers crossed for now, don't want to jinx it.

When I run out of Seti units I do units for another project so had some of those running, this may have caused Seti to thing I had enough work, but suspending that project , while trying to request units eventually seemed to do the trick, or just may have chance.
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Message 1340025 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 21:24:32 UTC - in response to Message 1340012.  

They always do this now. I have seen this on every single outage that they plan for upgrades. They will stop allowing their volunteers to work for them.
I have been for a while and I have done quite a bit of work and I have never seen outages like this. It used to be they would let us fill right up for a planned outage. Now they shut down 2 days before they plan on it. The servers now showing no splitters are up so no work at all. I have spent my entire morning pressing retry just to get my uploads in and I have still only got 20 uploaded.

They didn't shut down ahead of the outage, they crashed. I see what you're talking about, though. The splitters are all disabled or not running and the ready to send it almost down to nothing. However, I doubt this has anything to do with the coming outage.

I have seen more people quit over these issues. These are people who have invested a lot of money building crunching machines and now they sit dormant. The other project especially medical ones are asking us to crunch for them. These are corporations who make huge money on our ability to crunch huge amounts of data.
We have built the fastest computer on the planet and they want to take advantage of that. The only project that I will support is Seti but it is now becoming more of a pain in the butt just to volunteer for them

A lot of us also do Einstein@home. It's run by another university, not a corporation, and with its smaller number of users and the fact that it has actually found some of what it's looking for, you have a much better chance of being *the one* who finds something (well, one of *the ones*).


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Message 1340026 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 21:29:28 UTC - in response to Message 1339911.  

Well, it looks like we're back from whatever partial outage we had last night.

Anybody get any details of what happened from one of the guys?

Korpela wrote:
Yep, it looks like thinman is down and bruno is hung. Unfortunately
this happened about half an hour after I left work.

That would explain why the blue line stayed down while the green came back.

It also sounds to me like a really good reason to move everything to that other building where someone can kick it.

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Message 1340027 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 21:32:30 UTC

I've been wondering if the planned electrical repairs and the server stoppages are related - something in the wiring knocking out the servers? I've seen refrigerators and air conditioners make the lights flicker when they start, especially if they are old and in a house with inadequate wiring. They just did some a/c upgrades and that could have led to a problem.

I'm up to the meager limits and won't withstand the planned outage, so I fully support lifting the limits. I still think they hurt the project by reducing throughput more than they help.

For file transfer problems, try briefly interrupting network communications on the activity menu for 3 to 15 seconds. Downloads will resume from where they were. Uploads will start over but that's no big deal. This usually helps me.
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Message 1340031 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 21:38:28 UTC

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=70899

...By the way I'm fully aware we are about to temporarily run out of workunits to send. I'm just waiting for a RAID resync to finish (in about 90 minutes) before firing up the splitters again.

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Message 1340068 - Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 2:15:26 UTC

We have been heard
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Message 1340086 - Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 4:40:31 UTC

From outage to Shorty Storm :(

Why oh why does this always happen ?

Even on a GTX 550 it still takes longer to download a unit than it does to crunch it....

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Message 1340112 - Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 5:37:08 UTC

An hour and a half AP download… 10 mins, completion. :-)

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Message 1340122 - Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 6:31:38 UTC

TA - Murphy rools OK.

Its a pain, but it does happen quite often. And we've had a lot of shortie storms of late which can only be because the way the telescope is being used just now.
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