Latest News, and SETI@home daily stats for 06. - 08.05.2007.

[Rattledagger]

May 7, 2007
Our science database is still dead (see below and in Technical News for more info). The current ETA for a replacement server from Sun is tomorrow (Tuesday) - the earliest we could possibly get everything working again will be Wednesday. Thank you for your continued patience!

Let me just say a couple things right off: I'm coming to realize that my tech news items are giving people a distorted view of the project as I mostly report about the failures. Let's face it - chaos and disaster is far more fun and entertaining. Nevertheless, this ultimately negative tone is doing a bit of disservice to what we are accomplishing here. I'm sure most people reading this understand, but I wanted to point this out to be safe.

Also - there's clearly confusion about what we need to better this project. I'm continually overwhelmed but all the varying offers of help from our participants. I personally don't have the time to address these offers (nor does anybody around here) which sometimes leads to further confusion and perhaps hurt feelings. Knowing this, we're waiting for current avenues of hardware donation to pan out, and then Jeff, Eric, and I will sit down and revise our hardware donation page. I would also like us to revise our general public donation policies to cover certain cases where ambiguities have bitten us in the recent past.

Now onto the disasters...

If you haven't read the front page news, the current ETA for a new server from Sun is tomorrow (tuesday), probably in the afternoon which means if we're super lucky the science database will be alive again sometime on wednesday. Read other recent threads for more information on all that. There was a failure in the replica BOINC database over the weekend, most likely due to sidious crashing and having corrupted bin logs. No real harm there, and we'll clean that up during the usual outage tomorrow. One of our UPS's is complaining about a bad battery. Great.

More positively, we're on the brink of retiring three of the older servers: kang, koloth, and kryten. They aren't doing very much anymore and are complaining more about aching disk drives and such things as they age. This will help both by reducing temperature/power consumption, but also by making room for bruno and sidious to finally move into the much cooler closet (temperatures today around Berkeley are pushing 90 degrees Fahrenheit). Plus they'll move onto the gigabit internal network which'll be nice. Snap Appliance graciously sent us a couple more spare drives in light of a recent single drive failure in gowron (an old disk that died of natural causes). They've been vastly supportive over the years.

That's about it for now.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______258.003.606______536.642______698.698______impossible______SETI.USA
02______230.730.860______176.957______311.231______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______98.107.182_______96.991_______82.066______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______91.364.397______100.610______188.237______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______81.875.284_______99.111______122.859______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______80.511.596_______50.552_______74.614______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______69.481.110_______60.187_______87.172______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______46.124.059_______96.011______137.651______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______43.828.521_______14.327________3.404______impossible______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______32.454.041________4.831______-11.558______2.808 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______30.860.781_______51.334_______47.228______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______29.427.206_______33.967_______64.594______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______26.107.942_______66.321_______55.923______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______21.581.843________6.393_______30.572______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______16.091.821________7.257_______19.929______impossible______Ars Technica
16_______13.929.120_______70.199_______96.770______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.846.283_______41.642_______24.175______impossible______Universe Examiners
18_______50.216.521_______27.808_______58.356______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.112.525_______12.648_______12.136________174 days______Phoenix Rising
20_______-5.333.731_______31.037_______32.013________167 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-9.916.259_______-9.310_______-1.977______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
22______-10.066.490_______13.175_______-1.711______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
23______-10.922.348_______71.016_______95.821________114 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
24______-11.178.583_______14.495_______-9.577______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.265.254______-12.625______-32.388______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
26______-11.811.638________6.165_______21.895________539 days______SETI@China
27______-11.969.163_______-3.217_______-6.876______impossible______Canada
28______-12.705.234_________-560______-20.924______impossible______2CPU.com
29______-14.053.029_______53.142_______31.861________441 days______Dutch Power Cows
30______-14.983.657______-12.988_______-3.626______impossible______Team MacAddict
31______-16.142.493_______13.233_______-8.008______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-17.823.963_______-7.918______-14.469______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
33______-18.046.188______-11.314______-20.396______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-18.384.211______-13.390______-30.351______impossible______Portugal@Home
35______-19.193.738_______-6.470_______-8.677______impossible______Hungary
36______-19.301.107______-20.591______-44.356______impossible______Picard
37______-20.674.186______-13.370______-37.263______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
38______-21.191.729_______22.587_______19.019______1.114 days______UK BOINC Team
39______-22.989.176_______18.029_______13.999______1.642 days______US NAVY
40______-23.622.800_______-7.725______-22.192______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
41______-23.809.846_______-8.453______-10.834______impossible______U.S.Air Force
42______-23.929.730_______-4.099_______-6.785______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-23.971.662______-15.754______-33.905______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-24.569.025______-11.753______-25.340______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-24.771.935_______14.614_______-7.394______impossible______SETI.hr
46______-25.842.600______-18.197______-29.829______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
47______-27.537.141__________363______-22.763______impossible______BOINC UK
48______-28.420.311______-15.402______-43.014______impossible______The Final Front Ear
49______-28.668.518______-14.335______-34.075______impossible______SETI@Home Poland
50______-28.948.049______-12.774______-36.748______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

 

[ElFenix]

well that explains why i've got no work

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx for info and stats, RD! :beer:

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for the info & stats RD