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Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
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 -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Thanks for the update Matt. Claggy |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Thanks for the updates. Always appreciated. |
Chris Campbell Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 17 Credit: 4,677,968 RAC: 2 |
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". Running S@H since Day 1 -- May 14th, 1999! |
Frosted Send message Joined: 11 Jul 99 Posts: 83 Credit: 3,898,641 RAC: 0 |
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 |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
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. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
So we got them to turn those fans back on again until we figure out a better situation in the new year. 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 SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
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 |
Chris Campbell Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 17 Credit: 4,677,968 RAC: 2 |
Well, it's fixed now, so thanks to whomever fixed it :) Running S@H since Day 1 -- May 14th, 1999! |
DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1066 Credit: 1,226,053 RAC: 2 |
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. :) |
Dirk Sadowski Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
Matt, Merry Christmas to you and your family and friends! Also to the whole SETI@home crew and all others here around, Merry Christmas! |
LiliKrist Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 333 Credit: 143,167 RAC: 0 |
A merry Christmas to you Master Matt and your family too! N = R x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L |
S@NL - Eesger - www.knoop.nl Send message Joined: 7 Oct 01 Posts: 385 Credit: 50,200,038 RAC: 0 |
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 ;) The SETI@Home Gauntlet 2012 april 16 - 30| info / chat | STATS |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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RandyF Send message Joined: 8 Jan 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 12,296,855 RAC: 1 |
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Keith T. Send message Joined: 23 Aug 99 Posts: 962 Credit: 537,293 RAC: 9 |
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 [edit] 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] |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Fred J. Verster Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 |
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Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
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. |
Dirk Sadowski Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
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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