Individually, they work great. If you mean they are clustered together, such as a Beowulf cluster, then no, it doesn't work with BOINC unless you manufacture your own client that supports your cluster (and good luck with that! LOL).

Thanks..... I saw one that was going for like $475 for each 2 cpu server... Just thought I would ask.

Just to clarify:

If you have 30 servers, they'll work great as 30 individual crunchers.

Whats a good price for a q6600 system?

Quick note as I gotta catch a bus..

Gotta go..

- Matt

Thanks, Matt. I've got results stuck in the Transfer Queue for over a week now and they stay at about 1.80% completed (??) What's up with that?

- Tom

would it help if everybody stop asking for new work ?

While a noble effort, you have no chance in getting that level of cooperation.

I agree with what I've seen mentioned elsewhere, that the projects need an additional throttle mechanism built into BOINC; a "break glass" that is only performed in dire circumstances... Something that puts a little more control into their hands to get wildly out of control processes back in control quicker.

I'm no network expert, but how about simply firewalling out half of the internet? That might relieve the load on the servers sufficiently that they could achieve some reasonable throughput and clear some of the backlogue. A bit tough on the half that's firewalled, but the chunk of IP addresses allowed through could be changed every few hours to give everyone a chance.

would it help if everybody stop asking for new work ?

It might help but as noted elsewhere its not likely to happen.
I have 5 PCs doing BOINC.......I have shut down BOINC on 4 of
the 5 and left just the 1 running BOINC ...my "canary" if you like
......its not much but every little bit will help get things
back to normal.......

The servers are most likely being overwhelmed with requests atm.
Give it a day or two (if everything keeps working as it should) and things should look a lot smoother.

By the looks of this page a lot of servers were shutdown.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html
I hope it's not a bad sign :(

My guess is that they are working on the problems.

I'm keeping my systems busy with other projects until the people that are not as aware of the problem get their tanks filled, then I'll turn Seti back on.

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OK, I'll support the notion of naming it after a Sun-God, but there are SO many more interesting and obscure variations, How about:


Let me please suggest "Sol" (which happens to be sun in spanish) although I believe (AFAIK) that it is also the astronomical name for our warmth-giver.

Patagonia