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Rick ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Dec 99 Posts: 79 Credit: 11,486,227 RAC: 0 ![]() |
SETI really isn't a UCB thing. It's just housed in an old closet at UCB and the support volunteers are generally UCB students. UCB does not provide anything other than some network bandwidth, power and whatever cooling happens to be available in that closet. If SETI is lucky they may get someone's old castoff hardware that may still be marginally functional. These volunteers do a wonderful job with what they have to work with. We should be thanking them for their efforts and personally I do thank them. ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 271 Credit: 5,852,934 RAC: 0 ![]() |
The recent problems made it more than obvious that the projects needs some serious funding. Instead of complaining how about you people donate some money to the project? Just a few bucks each. Taking into consideration how much money each individual here spends on high end GPUs, quad cores CPUs, power bill, etc. 5$ won't hurt anybody. |
The Jedi Alliance - Ranger ![]() Send message Joined: 27 Dec 00 Posts: 72 Credit: 60,982,863 RAC: 0 ![]() |
No thank you, i already donate at least $6,ooo.oo a year in cpu time. they need to find appropriate funding, or just fold (pun intended). either i'm fine with, put just don't continue the way they are. You must have terrible utility rates. I have double the number of computers running BOINC as you show, some at home and some at the office, and my combined utility expense, which includes non-BOINC things such as lights, TV, pool pump and refridgerator, barely tops $6,000 a year. ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 1011 Credit: 230,314,058 RAC: 0 ![]() |
people are upset because, by nature, we are competitive. if they want to stop the complaining about down time, then remove the WHOLE CREDIT SYSTEM completely. until then they have to listen to it. i've made my position clear, no money. next you guys will be suggesting that you have to pay to crunch work. you all are starting to sound like progressives. ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 271 Credit: 5,852,934 RAC: 0 ![]() |
i've made my position clear, no money. next you guys will be suggesting that you have to pay to crunch work. you all are starting to sound like progressives. In fact that's what many of us already do. When we pay our utility bills for our 100-300 watt graphic cards. So why not spend 5 bucks more and donate? |
Aristotelis Send message Joined: 20 Feb 10 Posts: 1 Credit: 90,943 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I live in a pseudo dorm, so no electric bill for me. Muhahahaha. Just kidding all I have is the one computer anyway :^) Here is the trace from Lowell, MA USA. C:\Windows\system32>pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 Aristotelis-PC.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. [192.168.1.104] 1 192.168.1.1 2 73.171.64.1 3 68.85.184.77 4 be-21-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.87.144.157] 5 pos-2-5-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.65] 6 67.17.193.41 7 Hurrican-Electric-LLC.TenGigabitEthernet1-4.ar2.SJC2.gblx.net [64.214.174.246] 8 10gigabitethernet3-2.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.69] 9 64.71.140.42 10 208.68.243.254 11 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Computing statistics for 275 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 Aristotelis-PC.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. [192.168.1.104] 0/ 100 = 0% | 1 1ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.1 0/ 100 = 0% | 2 9ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% 73.171.64.1 0/ 100 = 0% | 3 9ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 68.85.184.77 0/ 100 = 0% | 4 10ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% be-21-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.87.144.157] 0/ 100 = 0% | 5 17ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% pos-2-5-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.65] 0/ 100 = 0% | 6 37ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 67.17.193.41 0/ 100 = 0% | 7 105ms 2/ 100 = 2% 2/ 100 = 2% Hurrican-Electric-LLC.TenGigabitEthernet1-4.ar2.SJC2.gblx.net [64.214.174.246] 0/ 100 = 0% | 8 111ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet3-2.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.69] 0/ 100 = 0% | 9 109ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.71.140.42 3/ 100 = 3% | 10 110ms 4/ 100 = 4% 1/ 100 = 1% 208.68.243.254 0/ 100 = 0% | 11 110ms 3/ 100 = 3% 0/ 100 = 0% boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Trace complete. |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 ![]() ![]() |
people are upset because, by nature, we are competitive. if they want to stop the complaining about down time, then remove the WHOLE CREDIT SYSTEM completely. until then they have to listen to it. A progressive would provide equal credit to everybody. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Feb 08 Posts: 7 Credit: 8,070,938 RAC: 0 ![]() |
The recent problems made it more than obvious that the projects needs some serious funding. I agree, I'll donate 50 euros tomorrow and challenge all off you to do the same ! I just spent 1600 on some new components and I know I'm not the only one... so who will do the same and donate ? |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 20 Oct 01 Posts: 39 Credit: 23,815,960 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I just spent 1600 on some new components and I know I'm not the only one... so who will do the same and donate ? Not me.... I just donated for February 2010. ![]() I DONATE money to SETI@home.... DO YOU? I'm just slowly BOINC'ing along. Hey... ET... you have a sister who likes earthlings? |
The Jedi Alliance - Ranger ![]() Send message Joined: 27 Dec 00 Posts: 72 Credit: 60,982,863 RAC: 0 ![]() |
It would appear that things are getting better. My computers are now uploading faster than they are completing and the pathping statistics for the past 36 hours show 50% fewer lost packets than the same period 24 hours ago. Things should be back to normal...just in time for Tuesday's scheduled outage. ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2467 Credit: 86,146,931 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Many have offered their own opinions as to why the project is down. I have not seen this possibility mentioned. After 10 plus years of operating this project I am sure that Matt, Eric and all the rest of the project scientists know how to best operate the Berkeley servers to meet their requirements. They have been doing it for many years now. I would maintain that the project is working at maximum throughput but as we have been told in the past excessive network activity can cause the database to start thrashing because of all the requests. Perhaps this comment made by Matt on Feb 16 provides a little light as to what is actually happening at this time.
I am suggesting that they are busy in the background, splitting the database up between Seti@Home and Astropulse. And this background activity is slowing all database activity and this will continue until the background operation is completed. Thus no response from Berkeley on the problem as there is little that can be done at this time until the operation completes. This is of course IMHO. Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc.... |
Bearcat Send message Joined: 10 Sep 99 Posts: 106 Credit: 10,778,506 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I would like to know why the project personnel is often referred to as volunteers by many posters ? If I remember right there was 180,000.00 in the last budget for "salaries". Even devided by 8 people that's more than I make. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 30 May 04 Posts: 10 Credit: 52,541,731 RAC: 39 ![]() ![]() |
$180,000.00 divided by 8 is $22,500.00 per year. That's not a living wage even down here in south Mississippi. i'm pretty sure the cost of living in Berkley is considerably higher than down here. ![]() Because the universe is just too big for us to be alone in. |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 ![]() ![]() |
I would like to know why the project personnel is often referred to as volunteers by many posters ? If I remember right there was 180,000.00 in the last budget for "salaries". Even devided by 8 people that's more than I make. What you see in your pay envelop is only a small part of what most people are payed for their work. Sometimes the cost to a company to hire a new person is almost double what they pay the worker. Also, in California teachers and school workers are well payed because it is a costly place to live and unions have driven hard bargains. For 4 people that's $45,000 each for the payed people. Thats very little for someone to do what they do. I would expect cost to be between $60k and $90k each so I suspect some of the people are part time. I do hope you can find a better job because unless you are sharing expenses with someone else, $23k is very little to live on. |
![]() Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 10,138,386 RAC: 0 ![]() |
2/21/2010 9:39:47 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 2/21/2010 9:41:38 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 2/21/2010 9:41:37 PM SETI@home Temporarily failed upload of 28mr07ac.31632.17064.15.10.225_1_0: HTTP error ok it wont upload got 24 units ready to upload and all i keep getting is this message. is it on my end or your end or both.. hate to bother you but its bugging me. I havent seen anyone else report it so after trying on my end to see if i could find anything I am now up the creek i guess. please tell me its just your end trying to get back to normal... |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 ![]() ![]() |
Don't worry about it. With a little luck they will get it cleared tomorrow. You will not lose credit, it's just a little delayed. |
Aurora Borealis ![]() Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 3075 Credit: 5,631,463 RAC: 0 ![]() |
A lot of people are frustrated that completed work is not moving. Personally, I only had 3 Seti and 1 Beta WU when the problems stated appearing, I simply temporarily cranked up the resource share on some of my other projects. So far I still have 2 Seti WU that haven't even started to crunch. The Beta project was taken down completely to free up resources for Seti main so that is still waiting to report. I only carry a one day queue but my Seti work isn't due till April so there's no rush. When the logjam breaks, I'll give Seti back it's usual share of my CPUs. The Seti project has always said that we should have other projects to cover down times. My system stays busy 24/7. It just devoting its crunch time to other projects right now. Boinc V7.2.42 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470 |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 24 May 00 Posts: 334 Credit: 204,421,005 RAC: 15 ![]() ![]() |
On the last hop I see a 12% loss. In an other test I see 25% loss in 208.68.234.254 Bye, Franz |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 ![]() ![]() |
At last count, I have 38 WUs waiting to UL. Some time, within the next 4 days, I will run out of WUs to crunch for SETI. I may have to re-set MilkyWay@home to get more WUs to keep the WinXP box doing something "constructive". In the meantime, I thought I would throw in some more collected data to help in resolving the current problem, that is when I can gain a connection to SETI again. Seems that their Internet connection is down, 100%, for the moment. And we're back... :) --------------------------------------- Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\WINDOWS\system32\pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.13] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 siran-winxp-pro [192.168.1.3] 1 WGT624 [192.168.XXX.XXX] 2 DI-604 [192.168.YYY.YYY] 3 10.22.214.1 4 172.30.1.101 5 fed1oobl50.rd.sd.cox.cci [172.30.1.53] 6 12-215-4-26.client.mchsi.com [12.215.4.26] 7 cr84.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.146] 8 cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.7.250] 9 ggr3.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.17] 10 192.205.34.198 11 sjo-bb1-link.telia.net [213.248.80.25] 12 hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net [213.248.86.54] 13 64.71.140.42 14 208.68.243.254 15 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.13] Computing statistics for 375 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 siran-winxp-pro [192.168.1.3] 0/ 100 = 0% | 1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.XXX.XXX 0/ 100 = 0% | 2 1ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.YYY.YYY 0/ 100 = 0% | 3 6ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10.22.214.1 0/ 100 = 0% | 4 7ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 172.30.1.101 0/ 100 = 0% | 5 7ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% fed1oobl50.rd.sd.cox.cci [172.30.1.53] 0/ 100 = 0% | 6 14ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 12-215-4-26.client.mchsi.com [12.215.4.26] 0/ 100 = 0% | 7 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% cr84.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.146] 0/ 100 = 0% | 8 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.7.250] 0/ 100 = 0% | 9 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% ggr3.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.17] 0/ 100 = 0% | 10 16ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.205.34.198 0/ 100 = 0% | 11 65ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% sjo-bb1-link.telia.net [213.248.80.25] 0/ 100 = 0% | 12 65ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net [213.248.86.54] 0/ 100 = 0% | 13 72ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.71.140.42 7/ 100 = 7% | 14 70ms 7/ 100 = 7% 0/ 100 = 0% 208.68.243.254 0/ 100 = 0% | 15 70ms 7/ 100 = 7% 0/ 100 = 0% boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.13] Trace complete. CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
![]() Send message Joined: 30 May 03 Posts: 871 Credit: 28,092,319 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Hey, Wait a minute! Nobody ever said that the packet loss we all see is THE problem, it might not even be a problem. For all I know, the packet loss may have been there before any of the current issues started. I was glad to see folks with Internet tools and experience join in the hunt. Hopefully, the issue/s will be resolved before everyone runs out of work! The recovery is already going to be quite a stress test for the servers, I think. Martin |
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