Oy! So the day ended yesterday with some good and bad news. The good news was that the air conditioning problems we were having were not due to our a/c unit, but due to the whole building turning off some circulation fans in order to save money over the holidays. Apparently these fans have been helping us out a lot. So we got them to turn those fans back on again until we figure out a better situation in the new year. At least they said they'd turn them back on again...

The bad news was that we discovered that spikes and gaussians were failing to be inserted into the science database by the assimilators. These were actually two separate problems that pretty much ate up our entire day today trying to figure out. The spike table simply needed more space. The gaussian table errors were terribly misleading, and we barked up several trees before determining there was some corruption in one of the indexes. We dropped a couple of the less crucial indexes until we were able to insert gaussians again. Jeez.

Other than that... we're ramping down our presence here at the lab now that the holidays and forced furloughs are upon us, but we'll of course be popping in from time to time anyway (remotely or directly) to deal with various chores, including this massive power outage on Sunday/Monday.

Happy remainder of the year!

- Matt

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Thanks for the update Matt.

Claggy

Thanks for the updates. Always appreciated.

Hey, so the Technical News page has been broken for over a week now ("Database Error"). Can someone fix that? It's at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php , and linked from the home page as "Technical News".

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Hey, so the Technical News page has been broken for over a week now ("Database Error"). Can someone fix that? It's at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php , and linked from the home page as "Technical News".

Chris, I believe the reason is that it was moved to here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=908

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So we got them to turn those fans back on again until we figure out a better situation in the new year.

Open up a window? ;-)

Happy holidays to you and the rest of the crew!
Hopefully you have a silent Christmas, without needing to rush over when things go down.

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So we got them to turn those fans back on again until we figure out a better situation in the new year.

Open up a window? ;-)

Happy holidays to you and the rest of the crew!
Hopefully you have a silent Christmas, without needing to rush over when things go down.

If they had windows then they would know when it's day/night & might stop working. :D

Have a good holiday there & stay out of the office! :P

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Chris, I believe the reason is that it was moved to here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=908

Naa, that's the News subforum, not the Technical news.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Well, it's fixed now, so thanks to whomever fixed it :)

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Thanks for the update, Matt. I look forward to your next update after the power outage on Monday.

Until then, Merry Christmas and all that jazz. :)

Matt, Merry Christmas to you and your family and friends!



Also to the whole SETI@home crew and all others here around, Merry Christmas!

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A merry Christmas to you Master Matt and your family too!

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Merry Christmas and an happy and successful new year to all and especially to the Berkeley crew!

PS: and don't catch that cold I caught ;)

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Thanks for the update Matt.
Wishing you and the rest of the staff at SETI@home a merry christmas and all the best for the new year!

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Hope Everyone has a wonderful, safe Christmas!!

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Will the http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ servers also be affected by the power outage? I seem to remember that those servers used to be co-located with S@h servers.

I checked the BOINC front page, there is no warning there of a power outage at the moment.

Hope everything goes down and back up smoothly.

Keith

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Also I assume that http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI Beta will also be down as well. No warning on that site either, although it will affect a lot less people than BOINC servers going down, which is linked from every BOINC project.[/edit]

Will the http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ servers also be affected by the power outage? I seem to remember that those servers used to be co-located with S@h servers.

If you crunch more than one project, and the other project(s) are up, it won't affect you at all.

If you have enough work in your cache, it will be a non-event.

If you're brand new to volunteer computing, and you want to download BOINC, that will be more of an issue.

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Best wishes to you, Matt and the entire Berkeley crew for the new year, 2010.

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Will the http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ servers also be affected by the power outage?

I think so, since it lives in the same building as the Seti project. Not sure if it's in the same server cabinet, but since the power outage for the major power upgrade will affect several buildings, it doesn't really matter where in the building the server is.

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Matt, something is broken..

NC subforum: [WARNING: All tasks result in VALIDATE ERRORS 29/12]

Results before and after the outage go in 'validate error's.

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