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Message 1340001 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 20:34:01 UTC

I already posted this on the front page, but FYI there's going to be another lab-wide power outage all weekend, during which all our servers will be unreachable. Hopefully this is the last of this sort of thing, and/or we relocate to the colocation facility before it happens again.

Meanwhile, we've hit a few bumps in the road. I don't think anything dire is happening outside of normal, expected drive failures and kernel hangs. But it's been causing cascading failures on the public facing servers thanks to the web of dependencies each machine has on another. It may seem bad, but everything is more or less okay. I think. I continue to aggressively upgrade and prepare for the impending probable move to the colocation facility, so maybe I'm exercising some lingering, forgotten hardware and configuration issues.

That's all I have to report for now, tech-wise. Behind the scenes development has been largely focused on getting a new polyphase filter bank splitter into production. The current splitter has standard, known FFT artifacts causing dips in sensitivity at the edges of workunits and rolloffs at the edges of the whole 2.5MHz band, but this new splitter will create workunits that exhibit more even sensitivity across the whole spectrum, as well as more sensivity in general to find singals in the noise. We also are turning corners on (finally) getting the NTPCkr back into regular production.

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Message 1340005 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 20:37:19 UTC
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What is it with all the power loss?...


Can you conscript a few students to pedal like fury to drive a few dynamos to keep the closet powered?...

;-)


And very good news for the improved data splitting for analysis.

Hang in there!

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Message 1340008 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 20:48:17 UTC - in response to Message 1340001.  

Thanks for the update Matt,

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Message 1340029 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 21:35:25 UTC
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...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 1340044 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 22:36:31 UTC

Matt, thanks for the news!


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Message 1340206 - Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 14:11:16 UTC - in response to Message 1340029.  

...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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Thanks, especially, for explaining that.

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Message 1340208 - Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 14:17:02 UTC

Thank you, Matt.
As usual, your insights into what goes on behind the scenes helps many of us to understand what goes on besides just server crashes...LOL.
You are a very much appreciated part of the Seti lab team. (Not to slight the others, of course.)
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Message 1341610 - Posted: 28 Feb 2013, 12:22:24 UTC - in response to Message 1340001.  
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Behind the scenes development has been largely focused on getting a new polyphase filter bank splitter into production.

Matt,

It looks as if in compiling the new splitters with

  <splitter_cfg>
    ...
    <pfb_ntaps>0</pfb_ntaps>
    <pfb_width_factor>0</pfb_width_factor>
  </splitter_cfg>

you've picked up the faulty library code which puts a 64-bit representation of the receiver ID into the WU name. Eric confirmed that this was harmless when we first questioned the long names at Beta, but the huge long names do look a bit ugly in BOINC Manager and task lists.

Edit - sorry, not a library problem, but a g++ type conversion problem between enum() and integer - I didn't read on to message 44106.
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Message 1341685 - Posted: 28 Feb 2013, 17:11:02 UTC

And another left-over, perhaps from the crash or power-down.

People are reporting that the stats dump for external stats sites, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/, hasn't been updated since 25 February. Could you kick the daemon, please?
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Message 1341702 - Posted: 28 Feb 2013, 18:11:47 UTC - in response to Message 1341685.  

And another left-over, perhaps from the crash or power-down.

People are reporting that the stats dump for external stats sites, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/, hasn't been updated since 25 February. Could you kick the daemon, please?


Ah! Thanks. I just fixed that (the scripts were trying to run an older binary that doesn't work after the OS upgrade). Should be back to normal again within the next 24 hours...

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Message 1341703 - Posted: 28 Feb 2013, 18:13:33 UTC - in response to Message 1341702.  

And another left-over, perhaps from the crash or power-down.

People are reporting that the stats dump for external stats sites, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/, hasn't been updated since 25 February. Could you kick the daemon, please?


Ah! Thanks. I just fixed that (the scripts were trying to run an older binary that doesn't work after the OS upgrade). Should be back to normal again within the next 24 hours...

- Matt

Thanks for the fix, Matt.
If you happen to see Eric, you can tell him to ignore the email I sent him on the subject a while ago.
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Message 1341777 - Posted: 28 Feb 2013, 22:19:39 UTC

Thanks Matt.



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Message 1343198 - Posted: 5 Mar 2013, 7:11:22 UTC

Thanks for the heads-up Matt !
Good news for this new splitter ! :)
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Message 1343948 - Posted: 8 Mar 2013, 3:42:49 UTC
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The suggested registry entry seems to be improving throughput in spite of the eternal log jam of the bandwidth. I would be very curious if amount of work accomplished increases as people make this edit, or if any negative side effects on the server end are noted.
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Message 1344314 - Posted: 9 Mar 2013, 2:49:55 UTC

Not sure if you can help I have been trying to download ap files. Since the scheduled shutdown. I have tried different connections to the internet.
Normally I can download AP files at a good speed greater than 25, they just continue to download slow, less than 10.
Even rebooted my system & SETI app.
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Message 1344325 - Posted: 9 Mar 2013, 3:16:47 UTC - in response to Message 1344314.  

You need to read this thread.
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Message 1345372 - Posted: 11 Mar 2013, 16:30:31 UTC

@ Matt,

I'm occasionally seeing

Data Distribution State				SETI@home #	Astropulse #	As of*
Results ready to send				315,972		0		-1m
Current result creation rate			41.2241/sec	0.0441/sec	5m
Results out in the field			3,584,585	150,826		-1m
Results received in last hour			98,472		1,194		0m
Result turnaround time (last hour average)	29.95 hours	149.99 hours	0m
Results returned and awaiting validation	2,819,506	176,961		-1m
Workunits waiting for validation		52		3		-1m
Workunits waiting for assimilation		84		49		-1m
Workunit files waiting for deletion		32		0		-1m
Result files waiting for deletion		208		0		-1m
Workunits waiting for db purging		880,516		23,465		-1m
Results waiting for db purging			1,850,801	63,477		-1m

on the sever status page.

Could those "As of minus one minute" lines indicate that one or more servers have lost their NTP syncs again?
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Message 1345400 - Posted: 11 Mar 2013, 17:12:43 UTC

daylight saving strikes again....
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Message 1345639 - Posted: 12 Mar 2013, 0:48:21 UTC - in response to Message 1345400.  

Hello ,sorry about this guys but i'm haveing troubble with einstein@home can't upload units can't get to web pages or message boards and yes i know this is not einstein but anybody out there know what has happened to einstein@home and how long the problem will take to fix ??? Thank's , i know i'm a pain in the ass
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Message 1345654 - Posted: 12 Mar 2013, 1:40:23 UTC - in response to Message 1345639.  
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We are all in the same boat, the E@H site is out, have no ideia why, but today i see something about some trouble with the replica server. Let´s see tomorrow.
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