We're having some problems with centurion, the computer holds the Breakthrough Listen data and does our Breakthrough Listen splitting. Correction will probably require an OS upgrade.

Because of this GBT data will be scarce over the weekend.

Get well soon Centurion

We're having some problems with centurion, the computer holds the Breakthrough Listen data and does our Breakthrough Listen splitting. Correction will probably require an OS upgrade.

Because of this GBT data will be scarce over the weekend.

Hey Joshua,
I tried this and it worked for me:

boinccmd --project setiathome.berkeley.edu nomorework

Cheers,
Rob :-)

Yeah, I'm acutely aware of slightly higher latency with the ECC RAM, but Xeons are a kinda different than their I7 brothers, apart from the better binning and higher operating temperatures for longer, they have a wider instruction bit extension range.

Unfortunately that isn't correct at all. Xeons and i7s have the same instruction bit extensions (SSE - SSE 4.2, AES, AVX, etc); come from the same die (so same bin), and have the same temperature ranges.

If you think otherwise, give me any Xeon model number and I can show you the i7 counterpart with the same features, minus the multi-socket capabilities or core count.

Xeons are cut from the same die as high-end Core i7's and often share many of the same features. In that regard, there's nothing special about Xeons that make them perform better than a high-end Core i7 of the same class.

ECC memory, or Error Correcting Code, is actually slower than regular (unbuffered, non-ECC) memory because each bit has to be checked before it can be accessed or used.

Now, does this error-correcting memory actually help? Basically no. The memory in use changes frequently enough that the chances of a bit-flip causing an error in the results is fairly slim. You have a greater chance of overheating components causing errors in results than an error reading from or writing to RAM.

In the long run, all we're doing as volunteers is offering our devices to find signals and store them in a database for later verification and re-checking. Distributed Computing started with the understanding that work is being sent to potentially unreliable devices, therefore allowances are made to recover from errors, such as sending out a single workunit to multiple machines, then having the results from both machines checked and verified against each other for greater accuracy. Any super-sensitive scientific work that needs to be done on a machine meeting specific requirements would be done in-house on a server or cluster.