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Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
The entire lab was shut down this past weekend for electrical repairs. We came back on line Sunday morning (Feb 24th). -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Thanks for the update, and for bringing things back up. Claggy |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22495 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
One less potential problem ticked off. Let us hope we don't have any more spurious power supply problems Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Fred E. Send message Joined: 22 Jul 99 Posts: 768 Credit: 24,140,697 RAC: 0 |
Matt, thanks for starting it back up on a Sunday morning. Heavy congestion, as expected. Another Fred Support SETI@home when you search the Web with GoodSearch or shop online with GoodShop. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30975 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Thanks for putting in hours on Sunday. Much appreciated. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Thanks for firing things back up on a Sunday, Matt. Much appreciated. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Raymond Butcher Send message Joined: 31 Dec 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 125,538 RAC: 0 |
Here on the East Coast, we are still not working. If it is because of backlog, then OK, if not is there something I can do to wake it up on my PC? The BOINC manager continues to indicate that it is waiting to contact servers.... |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Matt , to you and all the S@H Staff that work so hard ( so we don't gripe so much ) :) Kudos to all of you ! |
Thomas Send message Joined: 9 Dec 11 Posts: 1499 Credit: 1,345,576 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Matt for the heads-up A real pleasure to find again the project :) Congratulations to all the staff for the repairs ! And thanks for having restarted the project on Sunday - Very appreciated |
The Mom Send message Joined: 16 Aug 10 Posts: 4 Credit: 10,886,625 RAC: 20 |
Thank you for the updates, Matt. Might I suggest that in the future, when this website will be down, that notice be posted on the seti@home Facebook page? |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Thank you for the updates, Matt. Might I suggest that in the future, when this website will be down, that notice be posted on the seti@home Facebook page? I don't think there is an "official" Facebook page. The one I found seems to have very little to do with this project. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11412 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
IMO, a mass email notice would be very useful. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
IMO, a mass email notice would be very useful. Dunno...a global email to all Seti users I suspect would take a long time to send and consume a lot of bandwidth in itself. May not go out over the same link as the data, but just sayin'... Matt would probably have some idea about this, as I believe he was in charge of sending out fundraising emails from time to time. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30975 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Most forward looking organisations these days are moving with the times, and getting a presence on the social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. However nice that might be, Seti doesn't have the staff to maintain and monitor that sort of thing. Secondly it has to be accepted that Seti is a niche project in world affairs, and I would expect that our loyal supporters would be logging in here fairly regularly anyway. Seti does have a twitter feed ... https://twitter.com/setihome But it seems as if DA uses it mostly for BOINC posts not just Seti stuff. |
Creator Send message Joined: 20 Aug 12 Posts: 1 Credit: 7,603 RAC: 0 |
Looks pretty good |
Gary Send message Joined: 9 Jan 13 Posts: 6 Credit: 547,354 RAC: 0 |
Is there a problem with bandwidth? I run seti enhanced and astropulse and its taking me over 8 hours to download a 366kb seti file and about 6 days to download an 8mb astropulse file. This is annoying because i want to help with the effort but I am not happy with running my computer and paying the huge electricity costs that go with it (if you live in the UK you will understand) for my pc to sit idle for 6 hours, then do 3-4 hours processing and then sit idle again for hours untile the nect file downloads. I get about 3kbps for about 20 seconds then the download stopps and says download retry in....... its usually 5 hours or something. Anyway, this problem has been annoying me for some time now, every time seti shuts down for a day or two I spend about 2 weeks trying to get enough work onto my computer to process none stop and still allow time for the 6 hour downloads to happen. is it just me that this is happening to?? |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13842 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Is there a problem with bandwidth? Only for a year or 2. Check out the Number Crunching forum for more info. Grant Darwin NT |
wulf 21 Send message Joined: 18 Apr 09 Posts: 93 Credit: 26,337,213 RAC: 43 |
Interesting, it never seemed to me that there was a bandwidth problem. To me donwloading SAH takes seconds, AP minutes. Except in the hours directly after a maintainance outage that is. So I thought that getting the higher bandwidth would primarily shorten the time until the project is back to normal operation after an outage at the current "crunching rate" (which will obviously increase due to Moores law). But I'm not sure how fast the splitters are, so increasing bandwitdh could have a much lower impact than thought by many if splitters are (or will become at the higher bandwidth) the bottleneck. Maybe you just discovered one of the extremely rare cases in which neither your bandwidth nor the download servers' bandwidth is the data bottleneck but rather some provider network that your packets pass between you and UC Berkeley? You could test it by downloading anything else from any Berkeley site. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30975 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
There is a strong perception there is a bandwidth problem by those who want high RAC's. I've asked several times but the lab boys don't answer is are they collecting data at a much faster rate than we are processing it. If not, then in reality there isn't a bandwidth issue. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
There is a strong perception there is a bandwidth problem by those who want high RAC's. I've asked several times but the lab boys don't answer is are they collecting data at a much faster rate than we are processing it. If not, then in reality there isn't a bandwidth issue. And there is a strong perception by some with low RACs that there is simply no bandwidth problem at all. Or that those with high RACs are more interested in their stats than the science. Both are untrue, at least speaking for myself. However, your question is a valid one, and I would be interested in the answer as well. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
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