SETI: Project is down

[Wiz]

geez...

Hope they can get it back up.

 

[petrusbroder]

Yupp. I am really getting tired of the probs seti has. I think it is too much growth in too short time: a grat project, but not enough resources.

 

[RobertE]

I haven't crunched seti in several years, but I do pop in every now and then to see whats going on. Unfortunately, it's the same pile of poo that got me to leave. Very little has changed.

Perhaps it's time for the seti@home project to come to a close and everyone move on. The crew needs to take a deep look at what and what has not improved over the years. It's also quite telling when a project is down nearly as much as it's up. Shoestring budget or not, it's just embarassing.

 

[Rattledagger]

After many users has donated money resently :thumbsup: SETI@home has finally got the opportunity of buying 2 new servers. The Technical News mentions this:

20 Oct 2010 19:18:15 UTC
The good news is that forums are up and the projects will be up soon.

The bad news is that the work limits will be quite restrictive for a while. This is because we swapped the boinc mysql db master and replica servers. The master had been mork and mork has just become too unreliable The new master is jocelyn and it has less than half the memory of mork.

The good news is that the bad news is temporary, because yesterday we ordered a new mork! It should be here in a couple of weeks. Details on this will follow. BTW, we also ordered the new science db server!

We'll have to feel out the outage schedule over the next few weeks. Thank you for your amazing support and your patience.

So, in 3 or maybe 4 weeks time, database-crashes happening frequently is hopefully a thing of the past. Also, hopefully the new science-database-server is powerful enough that they don't need a 3 day scheduled outage any longer...

But in any case, until the new servers is up-and-running, my recommendation is to add one or more backup-projects alongside SETI@home, if you're not already got some projects lined-up.

 

[Wiz]

Yeah, I added Orbit - lot of good that did...

 

[lane42]

I guess some miss the purpose of BOINC. Project down
do another for the time being. Project's like,
Orbit, has no work now
simap, only sometimes
Milkyway, share of server prolbems

So i guess we close these projects and move on also, come on RobertE

Seti@Home has just spent 25 Grand in the last 2weeks for
2 new servers. Let's give em a chance.

 

[petrusbroder]

I really like Seti and I will be back there as soon as the projects has WUs and they can accept them back 6 days out of 7.

 

[Wiz]

Well at least Rosetta is working here.

 

[petrusbroder]

Yes, and Aqua, Collatz, DNETC, Cosmology (there the TeAm needs help), Quantum Fire Alpha, Einstein, MalariaControl, WorldCommunityGrid (that is one group of projects and a site which almost never is down or out of WUs) ... plenty of worthy projects that are great as backups.

Set seti@home to a resource share of 1000 and the other projetcs to 10 or 50 - as soon as seti is up their WUs get crunched. If you have enough seti-WUs, abort (not reset or detach) the other WUs / project and Seti will be crunched allone. When Seti is down the other projects come in again ...

 

[lane42]

Thanks Petrus
adding Cosmology as a backup.

 

[Assimilator1]

Good to hear they're getting new servers, hopefully their regular outage problems will be a thing of the past .

SETI@Home has plenty of legs left in it .

Should that be alien legs?