Have a look over here: http://ucbsystems.org/

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Aloha, Uli

There was a fire in a another co-lo server (not one of SETI's) at the co-lo facility. It triggered the halon fire-suppression system, and the whole facility had to be evacuated and powered down. It's slowly being brought back to life, bit by bit.

Thank you for the info update. I thought it was bad, because all of the university internet connection was down. I was guessing some contractor cut a line, but wow - a fire! Hope all is well after the smoke clears.

https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/3litvk/fire_in_campus_data_center_tons_of_stuff_down/
https://imgur.com/DVWpLk6

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Or, as it's now been posted on the SETI front page,

There was a fire in the data center last night.

The entire data center (where our servers are) had to be shut down. That crisis is now over and we're carefully bringing our servers back up. See details here.

Good argument here for bumping up the per CPU/GPU cache above 100 WUs, to lessen the impact of these things.
Been out of work here for hours, and outages are going to happen from time to time.

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Good argument here for bumping up the per CPU/GPU cache above 100 WUs, to lessen the impact of these things.
Been out of work here for hours, and outages are going to happen from time to time.

Better argument for choosing an alternate project or several. My machines have been fully occupied all day.

SSP shows only 5 servers up but that is probably fixable and not cause for a panic yet.

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SSP shows only 5 servers up but that is probably fixable and not cause for a panic yet.

Bah, we've been in full panic for almost 24 hours now :-)

A real panic looks like this, PANIC

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Well, one computer, (Exeter, GTX-760), is out of work and CAN'T Upload completed work. The other computer, (Prometheus, GTX-750 TI SC), is almost out of work, and also CAN'T Upload completed work. :-(


TL

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos

Well, it seems that uploads are working somehow now... Couple WU's uploaded, but I think that servers are in heavy stress right now...

Well, it seems that uploads are working somehow now... Couple WU's uploaded, but I think that servers are in heavy stress right now...

I have 46 Units on Exeter stuck in perpetual Upload, going NOWHERE... :-(

About the same on Prometheus... :-(

Nothings moving!!!... :-(


TL

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos

It took some button clicking, but I got my uploads uploaded.

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The Universe is not only stranger than you imagine, it's stranger than you can imagine.

SETI@home classic workunits 1,405 CPU time 57,318 hours

Well, it seems that uploads are working somehow now... Couple WU's uploaded, but I think that servers are in heavy stress right now...

I have 46 Units on Exeter stuck in perpetual Upload, going NOWHERE... :-(

About the same on Prometheus... :-(

Nothings moving!!!... :-(

They are moving, but very slowly. My old laptop uploaded and reported tasks, and got new ones and it's crunching again.

So Time and Patience :)

There is almost 180.000 computers trying to send results and asking for more.

It took some button clicking, but I got my uploads uploaded.

A lot of clicking.
At the present rate it'll probably 20-30min before I get enough uploads through to get new work, when there's some in the feeder at the time I request it.
Best upload I've had so far was about 5kB/s. 56k dialup speed. Most are barely 3kB/s.

So actually downloading work could take, forever...


EDIT- just got some work on one systems, and no issues with downloads at all.

EDIT- and to exacerbate the upload issues, and people's lack of work, 95% of my first couple of downloads have been shorties...

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Grant
Darwin NT

I notice on the Server Status page a lot of channels have ended in error; it may be worth re-running them in case it was due to the co-lo fire/heat/shutdown issues.

And unfortunately the splitters are still struggling. Given the demand & their low output it won't be long before the ready-to-send buffer is empty again.
Although as long as there are upload issues that will help reduce the load if there aren't people there to keep hitting retry.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Take heart; if you're half as intelligent as the average person on these forums that makes you twice as intelligent as I. Everything is relative.

"Too know that one is ignorant is the beginning of wisdom".

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Dave Nelson

Good argument here for bumping up the per CPU/GPU cache above 100 WUs, to lessen the impact of these things.
Been out of work here for hours, and outages are going to happen from time to time.

Better argument for choosing an alternate project or several. My machines have been fully occupied all day.

Well, if there was alternate project crunching SETI data, or anything else I was interested in, I would most assuredly be signed up :)

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Glad that the colo fire was minimal, nobody was hurt, and the Seti servers seem to have been spared any damage from the incident.

I am sure it was ET with a high energy plasma beam targeting the Seti servers because we are getting too close to finding them.
Glad that they hit the wrong server.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Good argument here for bumping up the per CPU/GPU cache above 100 WUs, to lessen the impact of these things.
Been out of work here for hours, and outages are going to happen from time to time.

Better argument for choosing an alternate project or several. My machines have been fully occupied all day.

Well, if there was alternate project crunching SETI data, or anything else I was interested in, I would most assuredly be signed up :)

Well, Einstein @ Home is crunching the same data as Seti from Areicbo, just looking for pulsars.