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Jeff Cobb Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 122 Credit: 40,367 RAC: 0 |
We've decided to keep the project down until the new servers are up and running and the databases migrated to them. The forums will stay up. The back end and the upload server will stay up until we clear the outstanding results. The time line we are looking at is about one month - two weeks for the servers to arrive and another two to get them going. We'll see as time goes on whether or not that's too aggressive. The down time will be used for preparing the databases for migration. For example, on the science side, we can finally finish a big merge of the spike table and drop the old spike table. This will make the database smaller and easier to migrate. We will also use the time for science processing and analysis. More later... |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Jeff, Sorry we wont get new work for awhile but at least we will have the forums. Here's hoping for a smooth transition and many more work units to crunch in the future. PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
Best post something about that in the front page news as well. But good decision. Let the grumbling commence. :D |
Jim_S Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31 |
Thanks for the continuing updates Jeff...They Keep Most of the Natives Happy/Quiet or at least more well behaved. I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.) |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
thank you Jeff, for the update. I think this is wise decision. Best Wishes Byron |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
No grumbling for this cruncher! Thank you for the update, and we will be here ready to crunch when the new servers are ready. You guys made an excellent decision! Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Thanks for the update Jeff, What will happen about Ghost Wu's?, will resends still happen? if you can clear them it'll help shrink the database no end, (i have tended to connect only when the servers aren't really busy, and what ghosts i did have, i've managed to get resent) Claggy |
Dirk Sadowski Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
Jeff, thanks for the news! BTW. I have still a few fresh/and crunched WUs in BOINC. The earliest deadline is the 06. Nov. Maybe it's possible to let run sometimes the scheduler for report? Or you will extend the deadlines? |
ScarabDrowner Send message Joined: 13 Sep 03 Posts: 90 Credit: 456,378 RAC: 0 |
Yay, uploads completed and reported. I'm a happy cruncher again, and will be happier still once SETI resumes ^_^ @Sutaru: reporting works now |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Jeff, thanks for the news! Scheduler is already online!!! Claggy |
Dirk Sadowski Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
? Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server Hmm.. my PCs can't report.. EDIT: Ops.. now yes.. |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
If you guys can get the scheduler and a download server going WITHOUT splitters, we should be able to really clean up the mess. I would love to make this as painless as possible for the lab. Janice |
gizbar Send message Joined: 7 Jan 01 Posts: 586 Credit: 21,087,774 RAC: 0 |
Not being sure how the backend is run, is it possible to split loads and loads of work while the new servers are being configured and run-in? Then there would be tons of work just waiting when the project comes back up, and we would all be waiting in the queue for our share. Is that possible? Or is everything too dependent on everything else to do that? A proud GPU User Server Donor! |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
Will we be able to monitor our tasks pages during this time, or is that operation too strenuous on the database? It's not really all that important, but I know curiosity of how many tasks are still lingering will be bugging a decent handful of people (yes, me included :p ). I understand if that won't/can't be turned on, but it would be nice. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
-BeNt- Send message Joined: 17 Oct 99 Posts: 1234 Credit: 10,116,112 RAC: 0 |
Excellent news, Rampage and Fury will be ready to go once you have everything in the green! Much needed break for my poor little server lol. Traveling through space at ~67,000mph! |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
... As some of those tasks have deadlines well into December, not all can be cleared within a reasonable time. Systems doing many projects can sometimes get into a mode where work gets done EDF and barely within deadline, and of course there are at least a few systems which need nearly all the allowed time to complete tasks. Do the best you can, most users are realistic and don't expect perfection. If there's a possibility of getting the SETI Beta servers up enough to allow uploads and reporting similar to the main project, many participants there would be grateful. Joe |
ScarabDrowner Send message Joined: 13 Sep 03 Posts: 90 Credit: 456,378 RAC: 0 |
I figure they'd just watch the server stats, and when "Results out in the field" reaches 0, they can feel safe turning it off. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36833 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I figure they'd just watch the server stats, and when "Results out in the field" reaches 0, they can feel safe turning it off. I don't believe that the ghosts out in the field will allow a 0 result too soon until last one times out unless EVERYBODY does a detach/re-attach once they've run out of work will help (wishful thinking, I know). Cheers. :) |
Cliff Harding Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1432 Credit: 110,967,840 RAC: 67 |
Thanks Jeff for the update. One question though.... While all of this is going on is it possible to do the same with the beta database, so that we can report those WUs? |
APCyberax Send message Joined: 6 Jun 01 Posts: 29 Credit: 24,078,024 RAC: 48 |
Thanks for the update. Got all my results uploaded and have suppended the project so it doesn't keep trying to request. Good luck with the new servers. Hopfully they will play nice. If not send them my way have a big hammer for configuring servers :) Keep us posted! PS. send a message to space telling ET not to phone :) |
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