Posts by dbrinza
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SETI@home hibernation
(Message 2042198)
Posted 1 Apr 2020 by  dbrinza
Post: It's been an interesting run since 31May1999. An adventure in crunching across explosive growth in computing capabilities, with clever people optimizing code along the way. It's been fun! 
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Welcome to the 10 year club
(Message 909191)
Posted 19 Jun 2009 by dbrinza
Post: I joined 31 May 1999. A decade has flown by far too quickly for me! |
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Validate Errors II
(Message 670806)
Posted 1 Nov 2007 by dbrinza
Post: Just because it feels good to think reporting these validate errors is somehow useful, here's one more: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=647545962 |
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Stats page change?!?!
(Message 653067)
Posted 3 Oct 2007 by dbrinza
Post: It appears that the credits are shown as integers in the "Your Account", "Results for Users", "Pending credits", and "Work unit ID" pages, but the "Result ID" page shows the full precision of claimed and granted credits. The integer results are in fact rounded and not merely truncated, so no need to worry about losing "credit change". |
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Validate Errors - CLOSED
(Message 502902)
Posted 14 Jan 2007 by dbrinza
Post: OK, here are a few Validate Errors I've accumulated: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=109084117 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=109105472 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=109120125 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=109158564 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=109173262 BOINC has not requested nor downloaded any new SETI@Home work for the past 20 hours. What's up with that?? |
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SETI Upload problem?
(Message 502064)
Posted 13 Jan 2007 by dbrinza
Post: Anybody else seeing this? Or is this a local problem?
I've had 6 upload errors in the past 2 hours. |
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http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
(Message 496831)
Posted 3 Jan 2007 by dbrinza
Post: Einstein@Home STATUS In his last update, David Hammer estimates 12 hours to get E@H up. I downloaded a bunch of uFluids workunits yesterday just before that BOINC project crashed...not the best way to start 2007. --Dave |
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Welcome to the 7 year club
(Message 496061)
Posted 2 Jan 2007 by dbrinza
Post: it is good to see such a large Group of old Members... I prefer the adjective experienced to old. BTW, you can think of experience as "credit" earned outside of SETI@Home and the rest of BOINC. If you're really stressed by the recent SETI or Einstein hiccups, you're lacking experience. Happy New Year!! |
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Welcome to the 7 year club
(Message 494916)
Posted 31 Dec 2006 by dbrinza
Post: I joined on May 31,1999. I accumulated >5K SETI Classic using almost 45K CPU hours on Win95, Win98 and WinXP machines over the years. I transitioned to BOINC to endure the early growing pains of the new Seti@Home environment in August 2005. I still remember "Scarecrow's" very exciting plots showing the recovery from extended outages. BTW, I recently had my 50th birthday, which means 1 SETI year = 7 human years?? OK, I'm a dog owner and I sometimes measure time in "dog years"... |
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Uh-oh.......can't upload completed results?
(Message 492688)
Posted 29 Dec 2006 by dbrinza
Post: I'm seeing this too: 12/29/2006 12:02:23 AM|SETI@home|Started upload of file 09dc03aa.13837.2258.598568.3.4_0_0 12/29/2006 12:02:44 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 12/29/2006 12:02:45 AM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 12/29/2006 12:02:45 AM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 09dc03aa.13837.2258.598568.3.4_0_0: http error 12/29/2006 12:02:45 AM|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on upload of file 09dc03aa.13837.2258.598568.3.4_0_0 12/29/2006 12:03:45 AM|SETI@home|Started upload of file 09dc03aa.13837.2258.598568.3.4_0_0 12/29/2006 12:04:03 AM|SETI@home|Error on file upload: can't open file 12/29/2006 12:04:03 AM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 09dc03aa.13837.2258.598568.3.4_0_0: transient upload error 12/29/2006 12:04:03 AM|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on upload of file 09dc03aa.13837.2258.598568.3.4_0_0 The first instance of this occurred for me at 11:42PM (PST) |
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Work unit ID: 100000000
(Message 458227)
Posted 15 Nov 2006 by dbrinza
Post: Coming soon! Just like an odometer roll-over, it's notable... |
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New work has just arrived!
(Message 234665)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: Here's what I've been getting most of the night: Oh, well...the WU's eventually appear. In the meantime, it's a nice night for bowling! |
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New work has just arrived!
(Message 234626)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: So it has, my cache has just topped-off nicely. I hadn't received a SETI WU in almost 40 hours, so my 'puter had an "all-Einstein" day...actually about 16 hours without SETI crunching. |
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New work has just arrived!
(Message 234496)
Posted 20 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: My cache just got filled!! Woo-hoo!!! |
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Stardust@Home
(Message 232119)
Posted 16 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: While artistic license can capture the imagination (nice rendering by MattDavis), sometimes reality is pretty stunning too. The image below shows the Stardust capsule blazing across the sky along with the landed hardware in the mud at the Utah Test and Training Range.  For more information checkout the Stardust Homepage I watched the entry, descent and landing coverage live Sunday early morning on "NASA TV". For a little while, the some of the operations team didn't know whether the drogue parachute had worked. Fortunately, all went well and in a couple of months, some of us will be helping look for captured interstellar dust particles. |
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Did this WU/result slip through a crack?
(Message 231289)
Posted 15 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: I noticed today that credit was finally granted for this "neglected" result. The BOINC credit system works! Now I can sleep nights again... |
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Stardust@Home
(Message 230611)
Posted 13 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: BTW, I couldn't find the other stardust@home thread (I tried searching from the "Message Board" page and found some news stories, but no discussion), could you provide the link?? OK, I found a post by Jason Safoutin that includes this link to the ssl stardust@home page: Stardust@Home |
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Stardust@Home
(Message 230604)
Posted 13 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: Quoting JM7 from the other stardust@home thread: Seems like there's some sort of a "virtual microscope" to be manually operated to adjust focus to examine tracks in images obtained from an automated microscope at NASA Johnson Space Center. It might be "fun" for an hour or so, but it is part of doing the science for the mission (albeit a rather tedious task.) BTW, I couldn't find the other stardust@home thread (I tried searching from the "Message Board" page and found some news stories, but no discussion), could you provide the link?? |
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Is boinc.setiatwork.com dead?
(Message 230600)
Posted 13 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: That link comes-up with BOINC Team Statistics Ok for me. It's working fine for me now as well... |
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Stardust@Home
(Message 230531)
Posted 13 Jan 2006 by dbrinza
Post: The Stardust mission return cannister will streak across northern California and Nevada early Sunday morning (just after 2 am PST) before landing in the desert of Utah. The cannister includes aerogel material (almost like "frozen glass smoke") used to capture dust particles from comet Wild 2 which the spacecraft flew by over 2 years ago. See the Stardust homepage for more info about the mission and landing: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/ BOINC will be hosting a program to allow trained volunteers to scan microscopic images of the aerogel material in search of tracks from cometary and even interstellar dust particles. For more info about the new BOINC Stardust@Home project see: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/01/10_dust.shtml This could be an interesting experiment for the distributed computing community to be involved with... |
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