The replica mysql database is down and will stay down until we can recover it during the next weekly outage on Tuesday. This is fallout from the failed (and recovered) RAID on that system. We thought we'd pushed beyond the minor corruption caused by the short blip, but apparently not. The easiest thing to do is rebuild it from scratch from the master after a backup. In the meantime, carolyn can handle the full load on its own without breaking a sweat.

Bob's been doing a great job keeping the splitters well fed with raw data (even over the weekends). Still, we get gummed up with funny raw data files that break the whole analysis suite for one reason or another. So we spent some time this morning adding some more "broken file" smarts to the software. It's all a work in progress. We're running low on our data backlog for the moment, but Bob's getting more from the off site archives as we speak.

- 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 update and the good work.

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Everything's been running great on this end. Work flowing right along. Thanks for all the hard work you guys have been doing to keep it that way.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

I am trying to translate from geek speak to geek speak...
"We're running low on our data backlog for the moment"

I am thinking means.. "things are really flying and we are catching up"

means "lots of work is flowing, and we are in our eternal quest to balance
things out".

Am i close?

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Janice

I am trying to translate from geek speak to geek speak...
"We're running low on our data backlog for the moment"

I am thinking means.. "things are really flying and we are catching up"

means "lots of work is flowing, and we are in our eternal quest to balance
things out".

Am i close?

I think it translates to, the pantry is almost empty and we had to go on a shopping trip.

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I am trying to translate from geek speak to geek speak...
"We're running low on our data backlog for the moment"

I am thinking means.. "things are really flying and we are catching up"

means "lots of work is flowing, and we are in our eternal quest to balance
things out".

Am i close?

I think it translates to, the pantry is almost empty and we had to go on a shopping trip.

I'll go along with option B. :)

Cheers.

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I for one am grateful to Bob and his continual efforts to keep the pantry full. Much of the time I see about 200k WU ready to dispatch to the crunchers, so he's doing a good job.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Thanks for the update and all your efforts Matt,

Did you know Seti Beta uploads are offline since yesterday?

04/03/2011 12:42:55 SETI@home Beta Test Started upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open file
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Temporarily failed upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0: transient upload error
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Backing off 27 min 58 sec on upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0

Claggy

Thanks for the update and all your efforts Matt,

Did you know Seti Beta uploads are offline since yesterday?

04/03/2011 12:42:55 SETI@home Beta Test Started upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open file
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Temporarily failed upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0: transient upload error
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Backing off 27 min 58 sec on upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0

Claggy

Hi, everything, except SETI-Bêta, got similar: transient upload error, at
14:34:14(UTC+1), works OK.
My 3 QUAD crunchers are well fed with MB and a few AP WU's, you're hard work
has certainly payed of.
Great job Matt and Bob! Wishing you a wonderfull weekend.

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Thanks for the update and all your efforts Matt,

Did you know Seti Beta uploads are offline since yesterday?

04/03/2011 12:42:55 SETI@home Beta Test Started upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open file
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Temporarily failed upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0: transient upload error
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Backing off 27 min 58 sec on upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0

Claggy

Check the month on your computer. This is March, not April! (Or, maybe the mmddyyyy is shown as ddmmyyyy where you are?)

Thanks for the update and all your efforts Matt,

Did you know Seti Beta uploads are offline since yesterday?

04/03/2011 12:42:55 SETI@home Beta Test Started upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open file
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Temporarily failed upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0: transient upload error
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Backing off 27 min 58 sec on upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0

Claggy

Check the month on your computer. This is March, not April! (Or, maybe the mmddyyyy is shown as ddmmyyyy where you are?)

Nothing wrong there, that's the UK format, 4th March 2011,

Claggy

I am trying to translate from geek speak to geek speak...
"We're running low on our data backlog for the moment"

I am thinking means.. "things are really flying and we are catching up"

means "lots of work is flowing, and we are in our eternal quest to balance
things out".

Am i close?

I think it translates to, the pantry is almost empty and we had to go on a shopping trip.

I'd have used a storeroom/warehouse analogy, but that works, too..

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Thanks for the update and all your efforts Matt,

Did you know Seti Beta uploads are offline since yesterday?

04/03/2011 12:42:55 SETI@home Beta Test Started upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open file
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Temporarily failed upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0: transient upload error
04/03/2011 12:43:03 SETI@home Beta Test Backing off 27 min 58 sec on upload of 06no10ac.4409.7429.7.13.159.vlar_1_0

Claggy

Glad to see I am not the only one having this problem. Started in the last 12-24 hours or so.

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Guys! How I can connect to seti@home beta?
Thank you

Maybe http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/beta/ ?

Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

Maybe http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/beta/ ?

Helli

No, you can end up with cookie issues using that. The official URL is http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/

                                                                 Joe

I try to register account in SETI@home beta here https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta//create_account_form.php?next_url=
In this page I saw message: "NOTE: If you use the BOINC Manager, don't use this form. Just run BOINC, select Add Project, and enter an email address and password."
Ok I think and go to BOINC -> Add Project. I'm use vers 6.12.15(64x) I CAN'T find ETI@home beta in project's list. What I did wrong?

Paste the URL http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ in the Project URL Field
and click Next.

PS. Thanks Joe for the Hint.

Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

Umm, still (as of this posting 2315 UTC Mar 7, 2011) getting these on Beta:

3/7/2011 3:15:13 PM SETI@home Beta Test Temporarily failed upload of ap_06no10ad_B4_P1_00160_20110220_11008.wu_2_0: transient upload error
3/7/2011 3:15:13 PM SETI@home Beta Test Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of ap_06no10ad_B4_P1_00160_20110220_11008.wu_2_0

Can something be done about this, as I'm about to lose some processed AP WU's to deadline!

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

I also am unable to upload a result to Beta:

Mon  7 Mar 20:16:59 2011	SETI@home Beta Test	Started upload of 06no10ac.26700.885.8.13.10_0_0
Mon  7 Mar 20:17:00 2011	SETI@home Beta Test	[error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open file
Mon  7 Mar 20:17:00 2011	SETI@home Beta Test	Temporarily failed upload of 06no10ac.26700.885.8.13.10_0_0: transient upload error
Mon  7 Mar 20:17:00 2011	SETI@home Beta Test	Backing off 3 hr 52 min 32 sec on upload of 06no10ac.26700.885.8.13.10_0_0

(Times are in MST.)

P.S. I wouldn’t worry about a deadline: while nobody's uploading, current WUs can’t reach quorum for validation.

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