Let me just say a couple things right off: I'm coming to realize that my tech news items are giving people a distorted view of the project as I mostly report about the failures. Let's face it - chaos and disaster is far more fun and entertaining. Nevertheless, this ultimately negative tone is doing a bit of disservice to what we are accomplishing here. I'm sure most people reading this understand, but I wanted to point this out to be safe.

Also - there's clearly confusion about what we need to better this project. I'm continually overwhelmed but all the varying offers of help from our participants. I personally don't have the time to address these offers (nor does anybody around here) which sometimes leads to further confusion and perhaps hurt feelings. Knowing this, we're waiting for current avenues of hardware donation to pan out, and then Jeff, Eric, and I will sit down and revise our hardware donation page. I would also like us to revise our general public donation policies to cover certain cases where ambiguities have bitten us in the recent past.

Now onto the disasters...

If you haven't read the front page news, the current ETA for a new server from Sun is tomorrow (tuesday), probably in the afternoon which means if we're super lucky the science database will be alive again sometime on wednesday. Read other recent threads for more information on all that. There was a failure in the replica BOINC database over the weekend, most likely due to sidious crashing and having corrupted bin logs. No real harm there, and we'll clean that up during the usual outage tomorrow. One of our UPS's is complaining about a bad battery. Great.

More positively, we're on the brink of retiring three of the older servers: kang, koloth, and kryten. They aren't doing very much anymore and are complaining more about aching disk drives and such things as they age. This will help both by reducing temperature/power consumption, but also by making room for bruno and sidious to finally move into the much cooler closet (temperatures today around Berkeley are pushing 90 degrees Fahrenheit). Plus they'll move onto the gigabit internal network which'll be nice. Snap Appliance graciously sent us a couple more spare drives in light of a recent single drive failure in gowron (an old disk that died of natural causes). They've been vastly supportive over the years.

That's about it for now.

- Matt

Hi Matt,

Please, is it possible to place a post in read only where you can write the evolution of the situation ???

Everyone write and have suggestion. Very nice. It show how many persons support you. But I am sure there are a lot of people who only are interrested about the evolution. I mean, recept, start, test, integration of the new.. I fact ONLY technical news !!!

I have not the time to read all the discussion. My team and me are only interrested about the technical situation. There are other forums to discuss !!!
I hope you will find the time to read this. and act it

We are with all the team with you

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Please, is it possible to place a post in read only where you can write the evolution of the situation ???

You could always read his posts and ignore the rest.

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Please, is it possible to place a post in read only where you can write the evolution of the situation ???

You could always read his posts and ignore the rest.

Of course...the situation is we're down...when it comes back up online then we'll be back up...evolution of a crash...in short form...lol

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Let me just say a couple things right off: I'm coming to realize that my tech news items are giving people a distorted view of the project as I mostly report about the failures. Let's face it - chaos and disaster is far more fun and entertaining. Nevertheless, this ultimately negative tone is doing a bit of disservice to what we are accomplishing here. I'm sure most people reading this understand, but I wanted to point this out to be safe.

don't worry: i have confiscated EVERY computer that i have build in the last 18 months!
they are all on standby, ready to do work for u guys !

they'll be chipping in for at least a month (... i can be VERY persuasive sometimes ...);

naturally, I'll be getting ALL the credit - lol

Very_Frightened