Posts by Dannis
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Message boards :
News :
We are recovering from a database crash
(Message 1306659)
Posted 16 Nov 2012 by  Dannis
Post: I understand that the Seti Institute has no direct connection, but where does the computer time come from to analyze the massive amounts of data generated by the telescopes. It comes from volunteers who donate power and equipment wear to the cause. If that is not what we are here for then, what is the use to stay around. Does the Institute wish to drop us and just pay for Super computer time to do the grunt work. Maybe you are right the institute does not care about our work. That might explain why we have these problems. Certificate of Computation This certifies that team Clemson University Team 1 has participated in SETI@home since 1 March 1999, and has contributed 99,586,993 Cobblestones of computation (86.04 quintillion floating-point operations) to SETI@home. David P. Anderson Director, SETI@home 16 November 2012 [/img] |
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Message boards :
News :
We are recovering from a database crash
(Message 1306522)
Posted 15 Nov 2012 by Dannis
Post: I am a university team leader and I posted this in another board a few days ago. "This issue, need I say so has been a server issue for months. It gets a band aid every now and then. But it continues to occur in one form or another. Either no one knows how to fix it, or they just don't have the time. Is is now costing us members. I know that other projects do not have constant problems keeping up and running. What will Seti do when all the members are gone and they have to pay for Computer time to analyze results. IF they don't put some emphasis on getting this under control, that's exactly where we are heading. My own team has seen a decline in participation over the last 8 months. When I ask why, these issues are given as the reason why members move on to more stable projects." I am Sorry to see members go but I can not blame you. It appears to me that no one is minding the store. The only recent post from the administrators has been about the fund raising. No one has responded to our problems and no one even updates the news section. On the seti Home page it still talks a about a server crash on October 24. None of of the News is current in any of the boards except someone is posting about fund raising. This is very sad for a worthy project to just ignore the very people that donate Hundreds of thousands dollars a month in energy cost and equipment wear, just to help. I can not believe that Jill and Seth would be happy about this if they knew what has been happening. As I said we are loosing members because of it. |
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Message boards :
News :
We are recovering from a database crash
(Message 1305605)
Posted 12 Nov 2012 by Dannis
Post: This issue, need I say so has been a server issue for months. It gets a band aid every now and then. But it continues to occur in one form or another. Either no one knows how to fix it, or they just don't have the time. Is is now costing us members. I know that other projects do not have constant problems keeping up and running. What will Seti do when all the members are gone and they have to pay for Computer time to analyze results. IF they don't put some emphasis on getting this under control, that's exactly where we are heading. My own team has seen a decline in participation over the last 8 months. When I ask why, these issues are given as the reason why members move on to more stable projects. |
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Message boards :
Technical News :
Hot Day (Oct 02 2012)
(Message 1304981)
Posted 11 Nov 2012 by Dannis
Post: I am glad someone got work units. I got tired of waiting and just shut down my machines that were dedicated to seti. It might be different if this was a first time incident, but something happens to the system on a weekly time table. It usually take a few days to fix, This time I have been down for quite a while. Additionally on one from the staff has even taken time to post and tell us what is happening. No one has even tried to take five minutes to let us know. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Gripes and Kudos II
(Message 1303182)
Posted 7 Nov 2012 by Dannis
Post: I spend more time out of work than working. All six of my machines are out of work. I Have been this way since last Thursday. I have tried the no new work option but my update request just time out. I have a lot of results to report, but nothing helps. I had hope this would be fixed after the Tuesday maintenance shutdown. No luck. I see a lot of people talking about it on the boards. The server status page says work is available, but we are not getting it. Do the system administrators even know this is happening. It is discouraging to a lot of people because these type issues just never go away. I even increased my buffers to try and ride out these regular problems. This time even that was not enough.[/b] |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (78) Server Problems?
(Message 1301764)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by Dannis
Post: Thanks for looking. I have tried the no new task option twice and they are still showing in my tasks window. I understand we have a problem getting work units. I have my preferences set to take any type work unit. I am still not getting units. Is the work scheduler down or we just out of units? |
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Message boards :
Technical News :
Hot Day (Oct 02 2012)
(Message 1301748)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by Dannis
Post: Is anyone on staff aware of the problems we are experiencing? we are not getting units and we cannot report data. I had 5 day buffers and all six of my machines are out of seti data. I had to put them on another project to have work. This seems to happen a lot so I had increased my buffers to ride through this type of problem, even that was not enough this time. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (78) Server Problems?
(Message 1301746)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by Dannis
Post: All of my six machines are in trouble. No work and not able to report work completed units. I do not understand why these type problems continue to occur. It seems to always happen going into a weekend and takes till the next Wednesday to straighten out. I have moved my buffers to 5 days to try and ride out these glitches. I have already worked through that data and I am now down. When we finally get some units I guess I will move my Buffers even higher. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Constantly running out of SETI work, or not Downloading
(Message 632781)
Posted 3 Sep 2007 by Dannis
Post: I'm assuming that all the projects on BOINC are about Sciece. That's very true. It is never about credits. IT's all about doing as much as you can for projects that you are really committed to. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Constantly running out of SETI work, or not Downloading
(Message 632564)
Posted 3 Sep 2007 by Dannis
Post: Thank you for your reply. I will continue to watch the post for solutions. Thanks for your efforts and time. My Best regards, Dannis |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Constantly running out of SETI work, or not Downloading
(Message 632221)
Posted 2 Sep 2007 by Dannis
Post: Thank you for you note. I don't have copies of error messages to prove it, But I do know that it started a week before I built my Quad system. And it has continued. This is not the first time I have written about it. That was almost four weeks ago. I do run another project, so They get the work when SETI does not. Best Regards, Dannis |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Constantly running out of SETI work, or not Downloading
(Message 632206)
Posted 2 Sep 2007 by Dannis
Post: Firstly, I am not a novice. I do not "pound on the button". I have presented a reasonable question. This problem is not new, This weekend is not the only time I have seen it. I see it almost daily on my faster machines. I am not the only person talking about it. I have seen it described by many others. The problem is many weeks old. I did not have it three months ago! I understand about system bottlenecks. But the end result is work not getting to users. It means lost calculation time and frustrated users. It does not matter if it is the splitters, file handlers or the latest software upgrade. I only present it so that you can be aware, and can use the information to assist in fixing the problem |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Constantly running out of SETI work, or not Downloading
(Message 632116)
Posted 2 Sep 2007 by Dannis
Post: See Matt's Tech News I have already read all of the post in that area. We were told in one rely to post in this area, so someone would work on it. It is not a new problem. It has been a problem for a long time. It occurs week days and weekends. I have looked back and I think it began when the servers were upgraded and we had that long downtime about 4 to 6 weeks ago. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Constantly running out of SETI work, or not Downloading
(Message 632097)
Posted 2 Sep 2007 by Dannis
Post: I have had this issue with SETI work not Downloading. IT seems to mostly affect my fastest machines. My Quad Core stays out of seti work as much as it stays in. My Dual core X2 and my Opteron Server both have the same issue. My older PIII and my Laptop seem to get plenty of work. I come up with 10 to 20 untis waiting in transfer.I get errors like download failed, project servers migth be down. This happens all the time, but seems to be worse on weekends. I run Another project to fill the gaps, I never have any problem getting work from then. I have disabled SETI for a few days and ran only the other project, just to verify this. The common problem seems to be with the Seti servers, not our machines. I have seen many others with post like mine in some of the other message boards. The issue started about three to four weeks ago, and has not improved. I have changed the buffer and connect time with no results. IF I could get more work, I could average 1000 instead of staying in the 500 to 600 range. Does anyone have any ideas as to what in going on? |
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Message boards :
Technical News :
Into the Long Weekend (Aug 31 2007)
(Message 632078)
Posted 2 Sep 2007 by Dannis
Post: I have had this same issue with SETI work not Downloading. IT seems to mostly affect my fastest machines. My Quad Core stays out of seti work as much as it stays in. My Dual core X2 and my Opteron Server both have the same issue. My older PIII and my Laptop seem to get plenty of work. I run Another project to fill the gaps, I never have any problem getting work from then. The common problem seems to be with the Seti servers, not our machines. The issue started about three to four weeks ago, and has not improved. I have changed the buffer and connect time with no results. IF I could get more work, I could average 1000 instead of staying in the 500 to 600 range. PS: I will post in the number crunching area also. My systems are constantly asking for work that never comes or takes hours to finally download. It is a SETI Server issue, as I can get all the work I want fron other projects. |
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Message boards :
Technical News :
Whoopsie (Aug 07 2007)
(Message 617317)
Posted 10 Aug 2007 by Dannis
Post: Yes, they probably know. There have been discussions on extra electrical energy usage. Each machine probably uses about 200 watts of power and the managers I'm sure are aware of total energy used because they know the number of active users, number of computers per user and the number of hours each machine devotes to Seti/Boinc each day. But there's no complaint. Everything is voluntary. Doing Seti helps keep my spirits up even if it costs me something like eight kilowatthours per day for my two PD950s. I know that it is voluntary. My purpose in bringing it up is that with all the downtime, we may lose members. And to also point out that we might could have some sort of membership donation drive for capital for new equipment. Since we are willing to spend the money on energy cost would we not also be willing to donate a few dollars each for new server equipment. |
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Message boards :
Technical News :
Whoopsie (Aug 07 2007)
(Message 617094)
Posted 9 Aug 2007 by Dannis
Post: First Let me Say that I am thankful for all the hard work that the staff has done. I know that it is difficult to work with pieced together equipment and limited staff numbers. I also understand about capital cost. I have been an Electrical Engineer and retired as Global Technical Manager for a top 100 global company. I don't wish to complain, but I have spent more time out of seti work than with the last four months. I prefer to work on seti. I have not experienced problems with the other projects. Is there anything that we as users can do to help get you good equipment. Would email to the right people grease the wheel. Would a capital donation drive to be used only for site computer upgrades help? Maybe the top managers of SETI don't understand how many dollars of computer time is donated every day just in terms of energy dollars by users. I have calculated that I donate as much as 25 to 30 dollars a month in power to the project. I am only one small scale user, just image the total monthly donation. I fear that we will lose many of our users to other projects, due to frustration. I know of at least two. Let us know what you think can be done. Also thanks agian for your personal super efforts. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Vista Ultimate and a lot of client errors
(Message 588320)
Posted 17 Jun 2007 by Dannis
Post: Has anyone had problems getting a lot of units aborted with client errors. I amd running a Dual core AMD with Vista Ultimate. Ever since I switched from XP I get a lot of client errors. My other computers are on Windows 2003 and Windows XP Pro. They are not having this problem. This is really hurting my performance on the VIsta machine. PS I am running the latest Version of BONIC. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Vista Ultimate and a lot of client errors
(Message 588319)
Posted 17 Jun 2007 by Dannis
Post: Has anyone had problems getting a lot of units aborted with client errors. I amd running a Dual core AMD with Vista Ultimate. Ever since I switched from XP I get a lot of client errors. My other computers are on Windows 2003 and Windows XP Pro. They are not having this problem. This is really hurting my performance on the VIsta machine. Thanks for help, DR |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Newest Bonic client will not work
(Message 311016)
Posted 20 May 2006 by Dannis
Post: I have tried to uninstall bonic and then reinstall as described with no results. Each time I get the same problem. This happens no matter which version I use or how I uninstal and reinstall.I have used Bonic for months with no problems, until I tried to upgrade to the lated version. Has anyone else reported a problem with the new version? Thanks for the suggestions, even if we have not yet found a solution. |
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