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Message 958143 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 0:30:10 UTC

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!

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Message 958149 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 0:44:47 UTC - in response to Message 958143.  

Thanks for the update Matt.

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Message 958150 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 0:47:57 UTC

Thanks for the updates. Always appreciated.
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Message 958175 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 2:47:43 UTC - in response to Message 958143.  

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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Message 958234 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 7:51:26 UTC - in response to Message 958175.  

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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Message 958236 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 8:00:49 UTC - in response to Message 958143.  

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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Message 958237 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 8:15:04 UTC - in response to Message 958236.  

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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Message 958249 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 9:27:54 UTC - in response to Message 958234.  

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.

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Message 958325 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 21:13:40 UTC - in response to Message 958249.  

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

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Message 958326 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 21:13:41 UTC - in response to Message 958143.  

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. :)
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Message 958346 - Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 23:05:22 UTC


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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Message 958419 - Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 4:23:22 UTC

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





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Message 958463 - Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 8:21:32 UTC

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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Message 958611 - Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 23:23:21 UTC

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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Message 958796 - Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 5:30:22 UTC - in response to Message 958611.  

Hope Everyone has a wonderful, safe Christmas!!
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Message 958820 - Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 12:25:57 UTC - in response to Message 958143.  
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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]
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Message 958844 - Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 17:53:03 UTC - in response to Message 958820.  

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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Message 958873 - Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 22:00:12 UTC - in response to Message 958844.  

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


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Message 959021 - Posted: 27 Dec 2009, 16:28:30 UTC - in response to Message 958820.  

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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Message 959109 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 1:19:59 UTC


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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