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dancer42 Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 455 Credit: 2,422,890 RAC: 1 |
Paganswyrd, I'm so glad you are willing to do all that work and buy all that equipment on a budget of $10k a year. ================================================== Hay that is my budget and yet i have a star. MLOL |
Brother Frank Send message Joined: 10 Dec 11 Posts: 26 Credit: 15,142,410 RAC: 0 |
I've been getting new work since yesterday. Then there was a blip for a while when I was not able to upload work easily. It must have gone on for most of the day today with my desktop with one Nvidia Ti 550 Card. Today has been better. My RAC really took a hit over the last two to three weeks, but for perhaps ten days I was not able to get any new work at all or upload any either. Soon after Eric's message about Servers being up but that there would still be some problems everything started to get better. I had turned most of my computers over to GPU Grid and Rosetta @ Home, and Milky Way, my backup projects. Now I am turning them slowly over to Seti at Home again by not getting any new work from my alternates. I don't believe Seti @ Home is able to handle the work load reliably anymore and will move into and out of these alternates and World Community Grid too for my little i3 notebook. I really believe that staffing issues and low priority for them at UC Berkeley is hurting the project a lot. Since that is true from my experience over the past year, It's all a matter or spreading computing capability around some more so that disease fighting and cure discovery projects get some benefit. Don't want to get compulsive anymore about just running Seti work. If I just adjust my attitude more toward doing the best I can and not getting too unhappy when Seti at Home goes down, I'll be much happier. I enjoy sharing on Google+ a great deal too and writing back and forth to people there with similar interests (photography, nature, helping people to understand complex topics, science fiction, human interest stories, animals and conservation, and having a smile on my face and enjoying life, and my computers and love of the web and sharing). I'll start making some donations to the Graphics Processors Users Group for Seti at Home equipment needs and to Seti at Home directly too. Year after year it will add up and I really want Seti at Home to succeed. I want to be positive, constructive in any criticism, and will try to help others on Seti at Home as I gain experience in my own right with using this software and managing my computers using BOINC. One thing is for sure. I am getting more and more committed to Citizen Science and Citizen Computing Projects. Frank Elliott,Member of Carepages.com,a chronic illness support site. Was FrankLivingFully there.Free user name & pw needed. My Google+ Profile is: https://profiles.google.com/u/0/10871372137584 Science,SF,Space,Astronomy,Medicine,Psyc Topics. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11414 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Brother Frank, good attitude. |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8964 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
Quite frankly I don't see how you get anything done! Priority #1 should be a fail-safe program that would involve some sort of emergency backup!!!! At least A.T.&T. sees to it that any program that involves as much as S.E.T.I. has many fail-safe options. You probably would have paid for it with all the down time you have incurred since I've joined! Next you should get a programmer that knows what the heck he is doing! I cannot believe the amount of time lost due to software issues. S.E.T.I. has effectively been offline since the latter part of November. Can you imagine the uproar if A.T.&T. had been off-line as much as S.E.T.I. has been? By the way, in case you did not know it, all of A.T.&T. is electronic, or in other words computers. All the Area Codes, first three digits, and then local numbers, are computer driven. There are no mechanical switches left!! So imagine what telephone service would be like if A.T.&T. allowed their computers to be as messed up as yours!?!? So your working on a shoestring! Okay. I would rather you be down while you got a backup program (and got it together with software) than be teased! Sorry guys! But I don't let my P.C. to fall into such a mess. But then I've worked with computers since 1980 and worked for Ma Bell for 26 of those years. I'm used to superior quality! You're comparing apples to oranges and it's not fair to either organization. AT&T is a multi-billion dollar organization--Seti is run by a University on grants. Your comparison is not workable. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Quite frankly I don't see how you get anything done! Priority #1 should be a fail-safe program that would involve some sort of emergency backup!!!! At least A.T.&T. sees to it that any program that involves as much as S.E.T.I. has many fail-safe options. You probably would have paid for it with all the down time you have incurred since I've joined! Next you should get a programmer that knows what the heck he is doing! I cannot believe the amount of time lost due to software issues. S.E.T.I. has effectively been offline since the latter part of November. Can you imagine the uproar if A.T.&T. had been off-line as much as S.E.T.I. has been? By the way, in case you did not know it, all of A.T.&T. is electronic, or in other words computers. All the Area Codes, first three digits, and then local numbers, are computer driven. There are no mechanical switches left!! So imagine what telephone service would be like if A.T.&T. allowed their computers to be as messed up as yours!?!? So your working on a shoestring! Okay. I would rather you be down while you got a backup program (and got it together with software) than be teased! Sorry guys! But I don't let my P.C. to fall into such a mess. But then I've worked with computers since 1980 and worked for Ma Bell for 26 of those years. I'm used to superior quality! Also, Seti@home is not critical to anybody. If AT&T's computers crash, it affects billions of people who depend on it for personal communication, television, business, and even their very lives. When S@H is down, it has no such effect on anybody. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
zork Send message Joined: 22 Jun 99 Posts: 5 Credit: 767,558 RAC: 0 |
So, is the scheduler back up and running? I see mention of the scheduler being up since last week, but I still have not received any work units since November, in spite of clicking the Update button dozens of times. Thanks |
Joseph Wilker Send message Joined: 3 Sep 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 9,897,969 RAC: 1 |
I had received updates a couple of days ago, but it appears to be down again today. :( |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
I had received updates a couple of days ago, but it appears to be down again today. :( Notice on front page: Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up Second notice down this week. |
zork Send message Joined: 22 Jun 99 Posts: 5 Credit: 767,558 RAC: 0 |
Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up I saw that but there is no follow up news that explains whether anything was resolved other than a hope to be back up on Dec. 5. One simple paragraph on the home page stating the current status would be much appreciated. Second notice down this week. That's not this week but is also from Dec. 5 |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Resolutions are normally posted in the technical news. Jeff Cobb posted this on the 6th. We have recently come out of a painful outage. Last Thursday, 11/29, there was an unexpected power outage at Space Sciences Lab. It lasted some 20 minutes. Eric came over as quickly as he could to shut machines down, but he works in another building from where our machine room is, so the UPS's had run out their fairly short on-battery time by the time he got there. It was a perfect storm in that both Matt and I (who work a few feet from the machine room) were both out. That's not this week but is also from Dec. 5 As the outage is a weekly event it appears automatically every Tuesday. This week the outage notice was pushed down for some reason. |
zork Send message Joined: 22 Jun 99 Posts: 5 Credit: 767,558 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Bernie. I think I saw that on the weekend but I was asking because I have not been able to connect since November, and that news is getting on six days old now. It would be nice to have an "in your face" status message, so we can see if any of their attempts have made progress without searching the news or message boards. I'll shut up now, but I'm just anxious to crunch, being newly back in the fold after years of not contributing. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Thanks Bernie. Well if you can't connect I would guess the problem is at your end as I have several machines on here and SETI-Beta and before the outage all were connecting fine, and have started connecting again now. Were you using a "proxy" during the scheduler problem, if so it will have barred you by now and it will work as well without one. Do you know how to look at the BOINC logs? When you start the first 20 lines or so would give a good indication if something is wrong. |
Cherokee150 Send message Joined: 11 Nov 99 Posts: 192 Credit: 58,513,758 RAC: 74 |
One thing I see, Zork, is that you have recently added Einstein. Einstein usually overloads a system with work units that have an extremely short deadline. This makes it difficult to get work from other projects, especially if you haven't done any processing on those other projects for awhile. I suggest you first try the following in the sequence listed, as it may be a simple "jump start" fix. 1. Select the Projects tab in BOINC, select Einstein@Home, then click the Suspend button. 2. Make sure SETI@home is not suspended. If it is, select SETI@home and click the Resume button. 3. Make sure SETI is selected and then click the Update button. 4. Check the Event Log to see if you received any tasks. 5. If you do not receive SETI tasks, return to the Projects tab. Wait until the clock on SETI@home has run down, then try the Update button again. 6. If you still don't get any SETI tasks, repeat steps 3-5. 7. If you do receive new SETI tasks, or if, after a reasonable number of step 3-5 repetitions, you are unsuccessful, be sure to select Einstein@Home and click the Resume button. If the above does not work, let us know and we can try some other possibilities. Good luck! :) |
zork Send message Joined: 22 Jun 99 Posts: 5 Credit: 767,558 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Bernie. No proxy on this end. My real issue has been that, for days, I have had no idea whether the issue has still been on the other end or mine. |
zork Send message Joined: 22 Jun 99 Posts: 5 Credit: 767,558 RAC: 0 |
One thing I see, Zork, is that you have recently added Einstein. Einstein usually overloads a system with work units that have an extremely short deadline. This makes it difficult to get work from other projects, especially if you haven't done any processing on those other projects for awhile. Thanks Cherokee150. This did it. My work machine took two tries, but my home one did it on the first go. I'm glad I finally knew to do something on my end other than click update. |
Charles LaDue Send message Joined: 14 Aug 12 Posts: 4 Credit: 1,617,126 RAC: 0 |
Whew.... |
Charles LaDue Send message Joined: 14 Aug 12 Posts: 4 Credit: 1,617,126 RAC: 0 |
Hmmm, is Seti being compared again against a commercial outfit with plenty of money? Is this being done again by a joker that in fact invented the personal home computer and therefore knows everything better than those know-nothings at the project? Well Said ! |
Jack Wolf Send message Joined: 10 Apr 12 Posts: 1 Credit: 83,306 RAC: 0 |
I hope I pull the rabbit out of the hat sometime soon and find E.T. :-) |
Cornhusker Send message Joined: 20 Apr 09 Posts: 41 Credit: 45,415,265 RAC: 37 |
Agreed. All their power outages have made me reconsider any ideas I ever had of moving to California. I Wonder if they've considered running an extension cord out here to Nebraska. |
Number 6 Send message Joined: 26 Nov 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 105,153 RAC: 0 |
I have about 26 WUs ready to report and I keep getting "communication deferred" for ever increasing times on the Project tab of BOINC Manager. In the Event Log I can see the following: 10/02/2013 6:39:23 p.m. | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 10/02/2013 6:39:26 p.m. | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/02/2013 6:39:29 p.m. | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. After a couple of hours I tried again and got this: 10/02/2013 8:48:08 p.m. | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 10/02/2013 8:48:08 p.m. | SETI@home | Reporting 26 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA 10/02/2013 8:48:50 p.m. | SETI@home | [error] No start tag in scheduler reply What's going on here? Is there something wrong my end or are there still problems on the server end? ------------------------------------- By Hook or by Crook....We Will ------------------------------------- |
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