I hope they fix the problem soon, it's getting a bit annoying this WU shortage.

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"SETI is probably the most important quest of our time,
and it amazes me that governments and corporations
are not supporting it sufficiently."- Arthur C. Clarke 2006

I hope they fix the problem soon, it's getting a bit annoying this WU shortage.

Looks like Centurion is back, prepare for Guppi storm :)

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Now the BLCs are back, but it appears the Arecibo files aren't working. The files are ending in Errors, the creation rate looks low, and All I'm receiving is BLC5 VLARs.

I hope they fix the problem soon, it's getting a bit annoying this WU shortage.

Looks like Centurion is back, prepare for Guppi storm :)

. . It is back but there are changes ... the GBT tasks have changed designation ... they are now Blc05. One can only wonder what the significance of this change is. Will they take longer? Will they be quicker? Or is is just business as usual with a different name? :) OR will there be even more varieties of GBT task ?

Stephen

??

Now the BLCs are back, but it appears the Arecibo files aren't working. The files are ending in Errors, the creation rate looks low, and All I'm receiving is BLC5 VLARs.

. . As the old proverb says ... "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it!" :)

Stephen

:)

Now the BLCs are back, but it appears the Arecibo files aren't working. The files are ending in Errors, the creation rate looks low, and All I'm receiving is BLC5 VLARs.

. . As the old proverb says ... "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it!" :)

Stephen

:)

So can I wish for PFB and GBT splitters to peacefully coexist? Or is that too close to politics? :)

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Not much I suspect. Here is a response I got when I questioned them about what the number means.

There are 8 (soon to be 16) compute nodes (fast servers) at Green Bank, numbered blc0 to blc7. Each sucks in 187.5 MHz of the total observing band. There's a bit more detail on file formats at

https://github.com/UCBerkeleySETI/breakthrough/blob/master/GBT/waterfall.md

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Now the BLCs are back, but it appears the Arecibo files aren't working. The files are ending in Errors, the creation rate looks low, and All I'm receiving is BLC5 VLARs.

. . As the old proverb says ... "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it!" :)

Stephen

:)

So can I wish for PFB and GBT splitters to peacefully coexist? Or is that too close to politics? :)

. . Hmmm ... sounds more philosophical to me ...

Stephen

:)

Not much I suspect. Here is a response I got when I questioned them about what the number means.

There are 8 (soon to be 16) compute nodes (fast servers) at Green Bank, numbered blc0 to blc7. Each sucks in 187.5 MHz of the total observing band. There's a bit more detail on file formats at

https://github.com/UCBerkeleySETI/breakthrough/blob/master/GBT/waterfall.md

. . Thank you Zalster that was actually kind of informative. It explains the change in designation to accommodate the extra 8 servers. So we CAN expect to see Blc types from 08 to 15 to start showing up. It is interesting then that the major difference (possibly the only difference) between Blc varieties is the spectrum they are capturing, which would mean the reason that Blc05's are so nasty is they are capturing a more difficult area of the spectrum, maybe one where the background radiation is worst. So the app takes a lot more time/passes to separate out the possible signals. Which means like them or hate them we probably really need to process them. Though if I were sending a signal across the cosmos to catch someone's attention I would most likely position it as far as possible from frequencies that were overcrowded to give it the best possible signal to noise ratio I could achieve. But that is me.

Stephen

:)

Looks like we're almost out of GBT data. Splitter output dropping off again, Ready to send buffer is making it's way back down to 0.

EDIT-
And the only Arecibo work I've got since the re-introduction of Guppies have been resends. Not a single recently split WU.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Looks like we're almost out of GBT data. Splitter output dropping off again, Ready to send buffer is making it's way back down to 0.

Yeah, I wasn't convinced the PFB splitters were actually producing anything, but a review of download logs for the last 6 hours indicate they are ...
Guess we'll see once the final GBT channel gets split in a few minutes.

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Guess we'll see once the final GBT channel gets split in a few minutes.

And we're toast, nothing getting out ...

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Should be sleeping, but I am up doing an early morning rig check.
Sent messages to Eric and Jeff regarding the situation as the SSP shows it.
But of course it's 4:20AM in Berkeley, so nothing's gonna get fixed for a while.

Now, back to bed for me.

Meowzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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

Looks like we're almost out of GBT data. Splitter output dropping off again, Ready to send buffer is making it's way back down to 0.

EDIT-
And the only Arecibo work I've got since the re-introduction of Guppies have been resends. Not a single recently split WU.

. . ATM I am getting "No tasks available" constantly across the three machines :(

. . Not looking good.

Stephen

:(

Looks like we're almost out of GBT data. Splitter output dropping off again, Ready to send buffer is making it's way back down to 0.

EDIT-
And the only Arecibo work I've got since the re-introduction of Guppies have been resends. Not a single recently split WU.

. . ATM I am getting "No tasks available" constantly across the three machines :(

. . Not looking good.

Stephen

:(

Did you say something bad about Obama or Hillary ?

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

. . ATM I am getting "No tasks available" constantly across the three machines :(

. . Not looking good.

Stephen

:(

Did you say something bad about Obama or Hillary ?

. . Not at all, should I have? Would that appease the great god Trump and get me more work??

Stephen

:)

. . ATM I am getting "No tasks available" constantly across the three machines :(

. . Not looking good.

Stephen

:(

Did you say something bad about Obama or Hillary ?

. . Not at all, should I have? Would that appease the great god Trump and get me more work??

Stephen

:)

No the opposite if you had. The minions are out and about fiddling with stuff for revenge. More to the point can you prove it isn't hillary or Obama, or their minions, interfering with your flow ?

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

and as I type the splitters have all but flat-lined.

At least it is daytime in Berkeley

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

No the opposite if you had. The minions are out and about fiddling with stuff for revenge. More to the point can you prove it isn't hillary or Obama, or their minions, interfering with your flow ?

First thing that went thru my mind when I saw they were starting fires and smashing windows on Campus last week. I had to wonder where on Berkeley the Seti offices were and where the servers were located. Second was glad it was at night and hopefully none of the staff was on campus.

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Did you say something bad about Obama or Hillary ?

. . Not at all, should I have? Would that appease the great god Trump and get me more work??
:)

No the opposite if you had. The minions are out and about fiddling with stuff for revenge. More to the point can you prove it isn't hillary or Obama, or their minions, interfering with your flow ?

. . Ahh, OK! Well if it's the minions tell them to drop by and we can have coffee. I might have some work for them ...

Stephen

:)