Latest News, and SETI@home daily stats for 01.05.2007.

[Rattledagger]

April 30, 2007
Since the announcement of Gliese 581c (the first possibly habitable extrasolar planet), we've been asked many times about what we have seen during our observations of this red dwarf star. Unfortunately, Gliese 581 is located just beyond the visible sky we can see at Arecibo Observatory, so we actually made no such observations.

May 1, 2007
Happy May Day. Unfortunately for us it's been "Mayday! Mayday!" At 4:43 (PDT) this morning, our science database machine, thumper, became hasenfeffer. It currently refuses to acknowledge that it has any disk drives. Since the controllers are attached to the motherboard, major repairs will probably be required. No work can be created until this machine gets fixed. We are on the phone with Sun now in hopes of securing repair or a replacement.

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______254.263.860____1.092.806______865.446______impossible______SETI.USA
02______229.346.542______523.344______421.883______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______97.570.754______108.655_______85.611______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______90.508.684______335.029______255.150______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______81.260.202______180.532______154.774______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______80.143.982______113.088_______95.845______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______69.029.907______130.776______109.852______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______45.424.535______239.393______175.143______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______43.766.539______-14.443_______-2.432_____17.996 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______32.474.178______-34.882______-20.882______1.555 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______30.544.686_______66.539_______49.290______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______29.174.250______110.390_______92.350______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______25.735.558______104.051_______57.874______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______21.486.831_______52.492_______47.546______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______16.020.623_______39.801_______29.418______impossible______Ars Technica
16_______13.421.296______155.990______120.613______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.621.777_______34.361_______15.912______impossible______Universe Examiners
18_______49.970.739______106.478_______81.570______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.196.577_______20.136_______12.735________172 days______Phoenix Rising
20_______-5.532.246_______59.643_______35.531________156 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-9.870.147_______15.950________2.700______3.656 days______Hewlett-Packard
22______-10.106.311______-15.864_______-9.861______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
23______-11.140.523______-57.039______-46.944______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
24______-11.211.475______-38.680______-23.870______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.445.130______174.879______117.619_________97 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
26______-11.855.977_______41.232_______36.448________325 days______SETI@China
27______-11.936.973______-15.891_______-9.367______impossible______Canada
28______-12.652.537______-44.756______-34.571______impossible______2CPU.com
29______-14.310.877_______31.519_______25.345________565 days______Dutch Power Cows
30______-14.930.523________5.310__________736_____20.286 days______Team MacAddict
31______-16.143.557______-23.803______-17.281______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-17.759.265______-33.364______-19.761______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
33______-17.963.009______-36.428______-28.704______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-18.261.159______-58.119______-43.222______impossible______Portugal@Home
35______-19.121.085______-83.467______-62.767______impossible______Picard
36______-19.146.886______-27.512______-10.521______impossible______Hungary
37______-20.536.510______-71.185______-54.880______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
38______-21.315.121_______28.355_______20.323______1.049 days______UK BOINC Team
39______-23.097.576_______13.125_______12.760______1.810 days______US NAVY
40______-23.540.134______-48.771______-32.699______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
41______-23.750.084______-23.327______-13.211______impossible______U.S.Air Force
42______-23.836.307______-66.043______-48.452______impossible______Team EDGE
43______-23.887.531_______-2.349_______-7.371______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
44______-24.463.076______-49.870______-35.570______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-24.784.318______-30.315______-17.528______impossible______SETI.hr
46______-25.707.648______-52.820______-40.169______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
47______-27.482.474______-52.667______-38.032______impossible______BOINC UK
48______-28.246.357______-88.043______-61.579______impossible______The Final Front Ear
49______-28.523.264______-63.132______-47.774______impossible______SETI@Home Poland
50______-28.814.791______-70.003______-54.238______impossible______World Wide S.E.T.I.

Appart for Anandtech's stats, it shows how much more/less than Anandtech.
Also shows based on Average Work Done how many days for Anandtech to overtake the team, or be overtaken by a team behind

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the info and the stats, Rattledagger!

It is good that the cache is quite full (at least 36 hours fo crunching left) and that there are spare projects!

 

[SirUlli]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
Thanks for the info and the stats, Rattledagger!

It is good that the cache is quite full (at least 36 hours fo crunching left) and that there are spare projects!

if 36 Hours are enough

this was one of those days. Sometime in the early morning MySQL on sidious crashed and rebooted itself. It had minor indigestion and restarted on its own just fine. Eric had to restart the BOINC projects to clean the pipes.

But when I came in I found Eric dissecting our master database server, thumper. That's never a good sign. He and Jeff informed me that it lost the ability to see any of its internal drives. Tests throughout the day confirmed that diagnosis - there's something dead between the power supply and the disk controllers so the drives don't even spin up. Booting from a DVD and an "fdisk" shows nothing. This system has a "preliminary" motherboard, which is one of the reasons we got it for free, but it has no hardware support.

Meanwhile I went ahead with the usual database backup/compression while we figured out what the heck we're gonna do. We're pretty confident the data is intact and as long as some server somewhere can mount the 24 SATA drives the make up the database the SETI@home science data will be perfectly intact. Failing that, we can recover from tape but unfortunately we're at a bad point in the backup cycle so the most recent tape is a week old.

Since data loss is most likely not an issue, the upshot of thumper being down is that we can't run the splitters or the assimilators. I just restarted the scheduler, but we only had about 300,000 results to process. I checked again just now and it's already down to about 281,000. Brace yourselves for a long outage. We placed many phone calls and asked for favors but so far no sure immediate solution presented itself. We have some leads, but does anybody have a 64-bit multiprocessor 8+GB system with 24 SATA drive bays they can loan us within the next 24-48 hours?

- Matt


http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=39188#557665

Greetings from Germyn NRW
Sir Ulli

 

[Assimilator1]

Yikes,I see their problem now!

Oh & starfire are less than 100 days away now.

 

[petrusbroder]

Oh, well, my WUs are done soon - good for TAS, as we are crunching WCG this month ...