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Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1849 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
... monetary donation is nothing compared to the costs of the electrical power my two crunchers accumulate over a year ... A good point, one that perhaps some folks should keep in mind. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11360 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Ten Dollar donation? Thar was the minimum the last time I looked since I give a bit more I did not look last week, |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13161 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
You are getting much more than what you paid for. +100 You have that right!! The forums are one of the best aspects of the project. I can always depend on the SETI forums to cut to the chase about hardware or software issues with the BOINC platform. The signal to noise ratio is SO MUCH higher here at SETI compared to Einstein or MilkyWay. Cheers, Keith Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13161 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
... monetary donation is nothing compared to the costs of the electrical power my two crunchers accumulate over a year ... Not in California with its $0.35/kWhr tier and 24/7 computing. Even with solar power, the costs are significant over the year. I try to build up a buffer over the summer to allow for the resistive heating the two crunchers provide over the winter. Still cheaper than the natural gas heating. I will always consider my distributed computing efforts a great benefits to cost relationship no matter the ultimate cost to my pocketbook. No, in fact a $100 dollar donation again this year. From a fixed income retiree. Cheers, Keith Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
Just wanted to point out and put into perspective for anyone who was wondering.. The fact that there are ~519,000 AP WUs waiting for assimilation.. 519000*8MB = 3.96 TiB that are sitting on-disk presently. That doesn't factor in "out in the field," "waiting for validation," nor does it factor in anything on the MB-side of things. So just from that alone is 4TB. Looking at the other values now.. specifically "returned, awaiting validation" bearing in mind that is results, not WUs.. probably assume an average of 3 results per WU, so ~1.2M/3 = 400k * 8 MB = 3.05 TiB, so that brings us up to 7TB. "out in the field" is again results, not WUs, so that rough-estimates out to 375 GB, making 7.4 TB. Then we add all the MB stuff in. "out in the field" is about 320 GB, same for "returned, awaiting validation", so that brings us up to 8TB.. roughly. I think it's safe to reasonably assume that the WU storage area was 8TB before more had to be added to it. And I think that extra space got added, because you can see the surge on the cricket and the creation rate is over 1/sec now when it was like 0.1/sec earlier in the day. No idea how much more space got added though. Hopefully assimilation can begin sooner rather than later though. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
Either way I'm out of GPU tasks since monday and my cpu tasks on my main cruncher is diminishing fast I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
That Ritchey-Chretien next to you is pretty impressive for 'fixed income retiree'..........I'm jealous. :DD "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
That Ritchey-Chretien next to you is pretty impressive for 'fixed income retiree'..........I'm jealous. yeah i was looking at that too and thought ... man that must be one hell of a fixed income hahaha I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
In case anyone hasn't seen it......... NASA Science News for Jan. 7, 2015 Recently, Hubble revisited the famous "Pillars of Creation," providing astronomers with a sharper and wider view of the iconic star forming region. The image hints that the Pillars of Creation might also be "pillars of destruction." FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2015/07jan_pillarsofcreation/ Unbelievably beautiful, how insignificant we all are.......... "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13161 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
I consider myself fortunate to get in on the ground floor for the first offerings of a new manufacturer. I was working at the time and had the cash at hand and I definitely hit the jackpot on this purchase. Best bang for the buck so far in my astrophotography hobby. When I made the purchase, I was figuring this was going to be my retirement scope; same with the mount. I didn't even consider that I would be stuck on the upgrade treadmill after this. I made a conscious decision to only consider products I could be happy with for the future with no upgrades after with limited resources. I think I hit it out of the park with the Deep Sky Instruments RC10C. Same with the Mountain Instruments MI-250 mount. I also have the Stellarvue SV-152 refractor to mount on it for large subjects at medium focal length. These two scopes cover just about everything I want to photograph. I figured I had to make purchases I could be happy with for the future in my retirement. Never again going to have the resources I had when employed so had better make the most of it. Sure there are larger available, but the scopes I have are the best fit I have for the mount. Doesn't mean I wouldn't want the newest AstroPhysics AP-1600 mount. At the time, I couldn't stomach the 2 year waiting list for the AP-1200 and the equivalent MI-250 was available in 4 months. So the MI-250 it was. Never been happier even though the MI-250 is no longer made. The combination so far has given me plenty of room to grow my skills. It isn't the hardware holding me back. Cheers, and thanks for noticing the hardware. Keith Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
I've been considering an upgrade to my 'observatory' equipment(HaHaHa a camper on a Dodge PU to get away from the lights of Denver). I have been using a 1964 Dynamax 8" for 35 years. It no longer has a working clock drive and no parts are available. Time to bite the bullet and devote some of my fixed income to the cause. Unfortunately for me JMI Telescopes is only 3 miles away and beckons to my Credit Card on a regular basis. Retirement is hell........ "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13161 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
A lot of the times, it is the location and not the equipment that defines your experience. The photo in my profile was taken at the Central Nevada Star Party. Best dark sky site I've experienced in North America so far. Doesn't hold a candle to the middle of the Pacific on a ship nor Western Australia east of the Coast Range. Restarted my childhood hobby with a Celestron 8" SCT. Still have it. Easiest clock drive scope I have to setup. Great for elementary school outreach programs and forgiving to clumsy and sticky little fingers. Ahh! Bino scopes. Now that is hard to resist the call of the credit card. Stay strong. Last temptation was the views from a home-brew 17" binocular scope at the Black Butte Lake Star Party. Mmmmm. good. Keith Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Speedy Send message Joined: 26 Jun 04 Posts: 1639 Credit: 12,921,799 RAC: 89 |
To bring this thread the back on topic it would appear that extra space created has increased the splitting speed. MB tasks are being split at over 23 a second and it is struggling to make a ready to send buffer, as always APs are going out as fast as they can be split |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 |
To bring this thread the back on topic it would appear that extra space created has increased the splitting speed. MB tasks are being split at over 23 a second and it is struggling to make a ready to send buffer, as always APs are going out as fast as they can be split Yes, but in the last few hours there are 10,000 more AP work units in the field. The split rate is slow but making progress filling all those empty queues. |
Speedy Send message Joined: 26 Jun 04 Posts: 1639 Credit: 12,921,799 RAC: 89 |
To bring this thread the back on topic it would appear that extra space created has increased the splitting speed. MB tasks are being split at over 23 a second and it is struggling to make a ready to send buffer, as always APs are going out as fast as they can be split This is good news |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19012 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
To bring this thread the back on topic it would appear that extra space created has increased the splitting speed. MB tasks are being split at over 23 a second and it is struggling to make a ready to send buffer, as always APs are going out as fast as they can be split Would be, if true. I've received 25 AP tasks in total on my primary machine since 00:00 today. But only 4 in the last 3 hours, in that time it would have completed at least 6 AP tasks. Therefore it has slowed down, despite several pushes on the project update button, and now the cache is getting smaller. edit] whinging works just got another AP task at 08:47 LOL |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
No, It's constantly getting tasks abandoned, that happens if an earlier scheduler contact gets through after a later one, ie out of sequence, Still, a couple more weird ones: 3897406272 1670136558 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:21 UTC 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:31 UTC Timed out - no response 3897406279 1670136559 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:21 UTC 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:31 UTC Timed out - no response A deadline of 10 seconds? Created 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:19 UTC Sent 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:21 UTC Report deadline 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:31 UTC Created 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:19 UTC Sent 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:21 UTC Report deadline 8 Jan 2015, 6:12:31 UTC Although, last night I saw him have several of these timed out tasks with 4 minute 27 second deadlines. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13161 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Yes, just noticed 3 invalids that finished through computation with normal exit status and a normal stderr output. Even has the same computed result as my wingmen. Why invalid? Weird indeed. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1669825487 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1669825535 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1669825541 Keith Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 |
I see what is happening with the AP units. I am picking up SSE units while my GPU is getting close to running dry. I don't think it would happen if they had MB units to keep the queues full but lacking MB work has caused the few AP units that are being created to be converted into SSE units. We now have around 30,000 more AP units in the field but most are in somebodies CPU queues where they will take a long time to process. AARRRGGGGGGGGGG. |
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