Latest News, and SETI@home daily stats for 02. - 05.05.2007.

[Rattledagger]

May 4, 2007
Great news! Sun Microsystems is coming to the rescue and will be replacing our inoperative science data base server. They are preparing the machine now and will be rushing it to us on Monday. Once we have the machine up and the database recovered, we can start sending work out again. Details on the server crash and our recovery from it can be found in Technical News.

Technical News:
02.05.2007:

Still no joy regarding the science database server. It's in pieces on a cart just like we left it yesterday - the drives in a pile, carefully numbered and mapped out so we can plug and play once we get a replacement (hopefully very soon). As expected we ran out of work to send out rather quickly, and while the project seems "down" all the public facing servers are still up and accepting results as they come in - there should be no loss in credit due to approaching deadlines and such.

Without the noise from maintaining the system I spent a chunk of the day finishing and beta-testing the code which will grant "contribution" when users are granted credit. In other words, a new table will be swiftly populated with user/workunit info that depicts which users did which workunit - something we were lacking before. This will happen in real time, while I also debugged a script which parses our flat-file archives containing similar data in order to "catch up." I can't fully debug this until the science database is back, however.

- Matt

03.05.2007:

Last night galileo crashed. Nobody could see the scheduler all evening. Most of our other systems were stuck hanging on its mounts, which explains the painfully slow web servers. Not sure what caused the crash, but it seems like a typical panic/reset which happens on machines which are up for many months at a time. Upon reboot it needed to fsck a drive and went into single user mode waiting for somebody to log in and do so. That somebody was Jeff around 8:30am this morning. Then it came up just fine.

While scavenging for parts in our lab Eric discovered a media converter and I then found the right cable to allow us to hook up setifiler1 to the new gigabit switch via fibre. If there were any web glitches this morning, it was because we were in the process of doing this and cleaning out routing/arp tables afterwards. Now setifiler1 can talk gigabit to our other machines. Not sure if this helps much, but setifiler1 is an old but perfectly functioning Network Appliance NAS system containing, among other things, all the files that comprise the SETI@home public web site and tape images for splitting. Jeff and I also wrapped up moving the lingering systems in the closet off the 100 Mbit switch and onto the new switch. Lots of ethernet/power cable spaghetti back there.

On the science database front, the outage continues. Not much to say about that except we're still working on getting replacement hardware. Frankly, no real time estimate on that. Some people have noticed, despite apparent claims on our website otherwise, their clients were able to get new workunits. This is because, due to some BOINC clients taking too long to process/return results or failures during validation, the BOINC backend puts these timed-out/unvalidated workunits back in the "to do" pile. I just checked and noticed we're still sending out workunit at the rate of 1 every 10+ seconds. Not exactly a lot... but not zero, either.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______256.393.681______500.580______759.225______impossible______SETI.USA
02______230.199.990______195.017______355.635______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______97.816.209_______58.926_______77.933______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______91.062.568______119.481______217.593______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______81.577.951_______73.321______130.837______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______80.359.941_______53.360_______82.559______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______69.300.550_______61.663_______96.444______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______45.836.027_______95.369______151.927______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______43.785.539________5.895__________-86____509.134 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______32.439.548_______-5.894______-16.896______1.920 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______30.706.778_______39.465_______46.486______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______29.325.305_______30.509_______74.901______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______25.908.980_______41.987_______53.246______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______21.562.663_______16.003_______38.397______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______16.070.050_______10.678_______23.963______impossible______Ars Technica
16_______13.718.524_______67.098______105.827______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.721.358_______26.200_______18.770______impossible______Universe Examiners
18_______50.133.097_______36.220_______68.525______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.150.470_______11.955_______12.361________174 days______Phoenix Rising
20_______-5.426.841_______26.935_______32.564________167 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-9.888.328_______-7.209__________307_____32.210 days______Hewlett-Packard
22______-10.106.014__________822_______-6.726______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
23______-11.135.396_______71.976______104.712________106 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
24______-11.222.068__________-80______-17.055______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.227.379______-19.200______-38.921______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
26______-11.830.133________5.580_______26.987________438 days______SETI@China
27______-11.959.513_______-5.648_______-8.252______impossible______Canada
28______-12.703.555______-11.713______-27.684______impossible______2CPU.com
29______-14.212.456_______27.332_______25.226________563 days______Dutch Power Cows
30______-14.944.694_______-4.364_________-695______impossible______Team MacAddict
31______-16.182.192______-10.752______-14.977______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-17.800.210_______-7.852______-16.664______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
33______-18.012.247______-10.014______-23.597______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-18.344.041______-17.818______-36.046______impossible______Portugal@Home
35______-19.174.327_______-4.957_______-9.311______impossible______Hungary
36______-19.239.334______-26.035______-52.187______impossible______Picard
37______-20.634.076______-21.474______-45.158______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
38______-21.259.490_______13.293_______18.346______1.159 days______UK BOINC Team
39______-23.043.262_______13.920_______13.023______1.769 days______US NAVY
40______-23.599.625______-12.842______-27.012______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
41______-23.784.488_______-9.062______-11.783______impossible______U.S.Air Force
42______-23.917.433_______-6.820_______-7.418______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-23.924.400______-20.145______-40.039______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-24.533.766______-14.741______-29.853______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-24.815.777_______-1.185______-14.315______impossible______SETI.hr
46______-25.788.009______-18.053______-33.799______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
47______-27.538.230_______-9.783______-30.255______impossible______BOINC UK
48______-28.374.106______-27.764______-52.107______impossible______The Final Front Ear
49______-28.625.513______-22.605______-40.697______impossible______SETI@Home Poland
50______-28.909.728______-20.005______-44.538______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

 

[amdxborg]

Great thanx RD!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Thanks for the SETI@home daily stats and news Rattledagger! :beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the info, Rattledagger!

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks RD ,I guess new WUs are coming out now