The problems last week with bruno (which continue, and I'll address below) completely overshadowed problems with our radar blanking suite which suddenly was unable to convert raw data into clean data which can then be split into workunits. So we ran out of work to send out over the weekend, and I was personally unable to do anything to help the effort in figuring out why. However, immediately this morning I spotted the problem. Long story short, this was one of those cases where the wild error messages with impossible number values were obscuring the less obvious real problem, which was simply a configuration file had gone missing. I replaced this file, and new work should be coming down the pike shortly.

Back to bruno: the woes continue with this system regarding its drives, though I am trying a few more things out before I throw my hands up in complete frustration. It would indeed be a shame to simply abandon this server as it has a lot to offer if it works. We'll have our server meeting later today to discuss where to go next on this front - I just wanted to give y'all an earlier than normal "heads up" today given the loss of work, etc.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Thanks for the news, Matt.

Glad you got the blanking problems sorted.....I am sure many folks will be happy to see new working coming down the pike soon.

And good luck with Bruno, my friend.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Thank you Matt! These little bits of information are invaluable to us out here in crunch land. We really do enjoy knowing what's happening, and appreciate your taking the time to tell us.

Steve!

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

woohoo let the good times roll

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Three cheers for Matt

Hail to our chief

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Good news - I was just now able to get an OS on the old bruno and reboot the system and it worked! There must have been some data gunk on the old root drives messing up the FC14 install. The installer kept crashing until I finally shredded these three drives (putting all zeros on them).

Of course, we still have to figure out the RAID situation for the remaining 21 drives. We currently have no working controller in the system, so we need to decide what to do next.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Wow!!!
2 victories in 1 day....
Well done, Sir.

If a new raid controller is all it will take to fix Bruno, that is good news.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Awesome new's Matt. Thanks for the quick update!

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more cheers & another Hail to the chief

Matt you da man

Great news matt, keep up the good work!!!

Thanks for the updates Matt, glad you're making progress,

Claggy

Excellent Matt. You've certainly earned your keep this month.

I suspect a new controller is just a short fund raiser away.

Just say the word.

Two down, one to go. Great work.

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Excellent Matt. You've certainly earned your keep this month.

I suspect a new controller is just a short fund raiser away.

Just say the word.

if its just a controller Todd already has offered one

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62871&nowrap=true#1069042

Great news all round. Thanks for all the hard work. On a side note Tech news page hasn't been updated since 13/01/11

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Matt, thanks for the news!

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I hope you do not lose data work?

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Alliance Francophone

Great news Matt, now I don't have to turn Einstein back on. I shut it down when the new servers got going so Seti could catch up after being down all that time and only Einstein was running. Hooray for Seti@Home and keep up the great work.

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Seti@Home Classic Work Units 413
Seti@Home Classic CPU time 3,869 hours

Doug

Guess it wasn't as simple as Matt made it sound. They must have run into some more problems as there is still no new work. :-( Hope it's not too serious and they are able to get back up soon.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Guess it wasn't as simple as Matt made it sound. They must have run into some more problems as there is still no new work. :-( Hope it's not too serious and they are able to get back up soon.

Ain't necessarily so. Doing anything at all with a 50 GB file takes time - even if he squirted one into the upstream end of the pipe just as he posted, we don't really know how long it takes before the complete thing emerges out of the other end of the sausage machine, ready to be mounted and offered up to the splitters.

For a continuous process like this, steady-state throughput gives no indication of how long it takes to recharge the (? many parallel) pipes from a drought.