Panic Mode On (98) Server Problems?

Author	Message
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1	Message 1692447 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 3:59:08 UTC Why Stanford decided to go it alone is known only to them. :( Blame John Elway..... "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> ID: 1692447 ·

Zalster Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5516 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242	Message 1692471 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 4:55:40 UTC - in response to Message 1692447. Back to Beta it is... Sidenote.. I am liking that OpenCl for VLARs 18 minutes. Now if they only validate.. Cuda 50 for the VLARs are taking about 53 minutes give or take. Of course the cuda50 is only using 13% of a core as opposed to 95% with the OpenCL but hey, I don't usually use the Cores for anything else anyway, lol Happy Crunching... Zalster ID: 1692471 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13334 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 1692517 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 6:55:34 UTC - in response to Message 1692471. It would appear the splitters are on strike. One is running, the rest aren't- looks like they didn't get the wakeup call after the weekly outage. End result, I should be out of GPU work in the next hour or so. Grant Darwin NT ID: 1692517 ·

Cactus Bob Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 209 Credit: 10,924,287 RAC: 29	Message 1692524 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 7:07:28 UTC I guess bitching about AP's at this point is kinda mute. I am chewing up my GPU MB's rather quick and will have an excess of CPU MB's soon. At least a couple days worth. I spent a few bucks on my GPU though in hopes of continue crunching. Not sure what happened that both AP's and MB's dried up. Someone give the server a Fonzie bonk. just need more CL's for my GPU. Bob Sometimes I wonder, what happened to all the people I gave directions to? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SETI@home classic workunits 4,321 SETI@home classic CPU time 22,169 hours ID: 1692524 ·

JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1	Message 1692527 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 7:14:22 UTC Depending on the 'morn in Berkeley, I will run one cruncher out of work and cut back the percentage of usage on the main unit. Hopefully it won't come to that. "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> ID: 1692527 ·

Grumpy Swede (I stand with Ukraine) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 8928 Credit: 49,849,242 RAC: 65	Message 1692532 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 7:22:02 UTC Strange... I have a strange feeling of emptiness. ID: 1692532 ·

ivan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223	Message 1692545 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 8:41:12 UTC - in response to Message 1692532. Strange... I have a strange feeling of emptiness. Mmm. Came in this morning to find my wall of gkrellm monitors largely black. Well, the 12-core is down at the moment; I tried finally to put it and the dual-20-core servers into a rack yesterday, but it seems when I rebuilt the rack I put the uprights fractionally closer than the standard rack dimensions, and the 10C's rack rails are about 5mm too long, fully collapsed, to fit. But one 20C's display is blank, and the other shows only three jobs running. After a bit of panicking, I eventually realised the fault was in Berkeley, not North Heathrow. Should be a trifle quieter in the server room today. ID: 1692545 ·

qbit Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Sep 04 Posts: 630 Credit: 6,868,528 RAC: 0	Message 1692549 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 9:04:50 UTC Folks, whats happening there? Maintenance done, SSP shows tapes beeing split but theres no work available and no word from any official? ID: 1692549 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14474 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874	Message 1692550 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 9:07:09 UTC - in response to Message 1692549. Folks, whats happening there? Maintenance done, SSP shows tapes beeing split but theres no work available and no word from any official? Well, not actually "being" split - no dark green markers, and most splitters 'not running'. S**t happens - they'll sort it out when they get into the lab. ID: 1692550 ·

raydar115 Send message Joined: 6 Oct 02 Posts: 17 Credit: 16,305,128 RAC: 0	Message 1692556 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 9:16:51 UTC Yep here we go into another dry spell with no explanations in the technical news of what the holdup is. Just a quick note of what the problem is like---(sorry folks having problems with the database again were working on it)--- or just something easy and simple like that would do it and would let us know that there are aware of a problem and are working on it. That would be all it would take to satisfy me. I do sincerely appreciate all the work they do, and time that they voluntarily put into this hopefully they'll let us know something soon before I run out of work that way I will know whether I should start crunching backup on one of my other secondary projects that will keep my computer busy and my volunteer work for humanity going. ID: 1692556 ·

qbit Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Sep 04 Posts: 630 Credit: 6,868,528 RAC: 0	Message 1692559 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 9:25:33 UTC Thx Richard. Looks like there are many problems lately and communication seems to be a bit low. But ok, its 2 in the morning there, lets see how things develop when they start to work in a few hours. ID: 1692559 ·

Zalster Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5516 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242	Message 1692565 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 9:31:32 UTC - in response to Message 1692556. It's always a good thing just to have a back up project with resources set to 0 so what if you run out of work, it will pick up automatically and crunch that project. When Seti comes back up, that back up will go to standby and seti will resume. Also, remember it's 2 am in California right now. This thing started to go down somewhere around 9-10 pm last night? They had already spent the day working on it when it decided to take a nap on us. I'm sure they will attend to it when they get to work today. Probably 8-9 am Pacific time. While an inconvenience, it is certainly not an emergency. My back ups have been happily crunching away for several hours. I for one, would prefer to allow them to get some rest and approach this with well rested eyes in the morning. Unlike me, who finds myself on the night shift, lol Zalster ID: 1692565 ·

qbit Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Sep 04 Posts: 630 Credit: 6,868,528 RAC: 0	Message 1692573 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 9:58:03 UTC Zalster, I know it's in the morning there and ofc I don't expect them to post at this time, but overall theres not much communication between the team and us lately, at least thats my impression. ID: 1692573 ·

Zalster Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5516 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242	Message 1692584 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 10:55:54 UTC - in response to Message 1692573. Last modified: 17 Jun 2015, 10:56:20 UTC Many replies came to mind.. No full time staff... Part time project... Communication takes away from repair... Lack of $$ for intern... Finally decided on If it's a major FUBAR they will tell us, if it's a hiccup then they won't. (Side note) I wonder if the VLAR storm that started just before it went down has anything to do with the failure? I've noticed the last work units I was getting were all VLARs and Beta is nothing but VLARs at the moment. Could just be a coincidence. But it does make me wonder.. Zalster ID: 1692584 ·

rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 20789 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 1692588 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 11:07:21 UTC Beta are testing new/updated CUDA/OpenCL VLAR app, so nothing to do with the VLARs that were coming out on main. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1692588 ·

William Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Feb 13 Posts: 2037 Credit: 17,689,662 RAC: 0	Message 1692593 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 11:25:29 UTC Beta and Main run different splitters. Having VLAR on both is a coincidence (or Murphy) Beta are testing a bunch of new OpenCL apps, not specifically VLAR. There probably needs to be a more sophisticated approach than the blanket 'no VLAR for NV unless CC 3+' so as to allow the OpenCL NV app to have a try, but that's rather delicate code. (IOW I doubt Eric has the time to fiddle with it). A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. (Mark Twain) ID: 1692593 ·

Brent Norman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835	Message 1692599 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 11:40:25 UTC I sent 4 Escorts to the lab, first person that fixed the uploads gets a breakfast to remember :) ID: 1692599 ·

Oz Send message Joined: 6 Jun 99 Posts: 233 Credit: 200,655,462 RAC: 212	Message 1692628 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 13:21:06 UTC - in response to Message 1692599. Four? We want to encourage them, not kill them! Member of the 20 Year Club ID: 1692628 ·

Brent Norman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835	Message 1692634 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 13:29:21 UTC - in response to Message 1692628. Yes but then you want to see someone leave work and say ... DAMN I DID GOOD TODAY :D ID: 1692634 ·

Zalster Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5516 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242	Message 1692741 - Posted: 17 Jun 2015, 17:27:08 UTC - in response to Message 1692634. looks like 3 of the spitters are back online... ID: 1692741 ·

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