A post from Michael Sinatra culled from alt.sci.seti:
There have been a number of problems due to the saturation of the campus's
pipe to the commercial internet (our internet2 pipe still has room, but
it's a lot bigger). Currently, we're trying to make the best of this
situation until we have a longer-term solution, which the work on Thursday
will lay the groundwork for. There won't be an immediate change after
Thursday's work, but once it's completed, we'll have the infrastructure
fully in place to start shifting s@h traffic to a different pipe. (David
Anderson has already announced this to a distributed computing forum, and
the URL for that announcement was posted to this ng, so this shouldn't
really be news.)
The new pipe will be using a different provider, and while I think this
will help quite a bit, I can't guarantee that it will be perfect. There
will still be single points of failure and the possibility of the server
itself going down, but the bandwidth issue should get better.
Hopefully, I'll have a chance to comment after Thursday's work and give a
better idea of what's going on. Right now, I need to get some sleep!
There have been a number of problems due to the saturation of the campus's
pipe to the commercial internet (our internet2 pipe still has room, but
it's a lot bigger). Currently, we're trying to make the best of this
situation until we have a longer-term solution, which the work on Thursday
will lay the groundwork for. There won't be an immediate change after
Thursday's work, but once it's completed, we'll have the infrastructure
fully in place to start shifting s@h traffic to a different pipe. (David
Anderson has already announced this to a distributed computing forum, and
the URL for that announcement was posted to this ng, so this shouldn't
really be news.)
The new pipe will be using a different provider, and while I think this
will help quite a bit, I can't guarantee that it will be perfect. There
will still be single points of failure and the possibility of the server
itself going down, but the bandwidth issue should get better.
Hopefully, I'll have a chance to comment after Thursday's work and give a
better idea of what's going on. Right now, I need to get some sleep!
