Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 06.09.2007.

[Rattledagger]

Weird Day (Sep 05 2007)

A drive on thumper failed this morning. No major tragedy - there were many spare drives and one was pulled into place immediately and the whole device was resynced by mid-afternoon. We'll have to replace that drive at some point I guess. Spent a chunk of time learning about the current state of the Astropulse research. Also started setting up a small NAS recently purchased by Andrew (who is working on Optical SETI among other things) for his own research.

More of the day was occupied tracking down some splitter issues which came to light only after I finished my new multibeam status program and ran it a couple times. We found certain sequence numbers in our data headers were, as it turns out, not necessarily in sequence. This doesn't affect the raw data, so the scientific analysis is just fine. However, we have some annoying cleanup ahead of us as as well as some band-aid programming.

By the way, I'm finding that, given current client work demand, that running three splitters is a good amount, even though we're not creating work fast enough to fill the result-to-send queue. People are mostly getting what they ask for, with an occasional polite "no work right now come back soon" message. If we add just one more splitter, we will start filling the queue, which in turn means all demands for work will be met, which means more traffic at the download server, which means extra load on the workunit file server from both ends (the splitter and the download server) and everything will go to hell. So, oddly enough, as it stands right now making less work means more work can be sent out.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_______AWD________overtake________Team-name
01______325.694.900______549.749______526.661______impossible______SETI.USA
02______269.019.843______308.144______322.850______impossible______SETI.Germany
03______114.501.259______185.669______187.689______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
04______109.120.066_______56.326_______73.625______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
05_______97.770.528______146.415______138.622______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______90.604.795_______74.652_______79.033______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______80.479.191_______95.832_______89.336______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______65.306.348______139.092______150.546______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______44.299.907______-19.448_______-7.736______5.726 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______36.689.545_______36.014_______42.874______impossible______Team Art Bell
11_______36.132.709_______10.713_______19.438______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______32.318.428_______33.465_______39.949______impossible______Team 2ch
13_______31.968.432______-35.261______-25.011______1.278 days______BOINC.Italy
14_______27.366.653_______33.128_______43.281______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______23.710.965_______79.597_______68.300______impossible______Team MacNN
16_______17.481.483_______-2.300___________40______impossible______Ars Technica
17________4.810.937_______-7.337_______-1.843______2.610 days______Universe Examiners
18___________20.103_______27.144_______23.964______impossible______Phoenix Rising
19_______57.402.623_______83.936_______74.114______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
20_________-169.146_______31.377_______37.412__________5 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-5.275.144________9.686_______17.283________305 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
22_______-5.706.050_______59.894_______62.901_________91 days______SETI@China
23_______-9.357.723______-15.655_______-5.731______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
24______-10.706.448______-12.163______-10.052______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
25______-10.729.177______-24.673______-14.627______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
26______-10.881.637_______-5.241________1.768______6.155 days______Dutch Power Cows
27______-10.999.383________1.931________4.861______2.263 days______Canada
28______-15.499.374______-60.254______-49.000______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
29______-15.802.042______-15.918______-14.250______impossible______Team MacAddict
30______-15.919.188______-42.952______-34.351______impossible______2CPU.com
31______-16.602.406______-25.456______-20.354______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-18.979.995______-19.219______-13.135______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
33______-19.042.743________7.687_______11.860______1.606 days______UK BOINC Team
34______-19.156.622______-16.683______-12.154______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
35______-19.514.665______-18.365_______-9.731______impossible______Hungary
36______-19.920.512_______13.721_______38.750________514 days______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
37______-20.564.459________3.288________4.869______4.224 days______US NAVY
38______-21.388.262______-38.189______-34.637______impossible______Portugal@Home
39______-23.449.532______-12.677________1.429_____16.410 days______U.S.Air Force
40______-24.859.929______-29.303______-23.127______impossible______SETI.hr
41______-24.862.298______-68.299______-59.939______impossible______Picard
42______-25.743.673______-64.559______-55.570______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
43______-25.893.319______-37.905______-28.571______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
44______-27.004.760______-47.327______-36.830______impossible______Team EDGE
45______-27.269.120_______45.280_______32.016________852 days______AUSTRIA - NATIONAL - TEAM
46______-27.402.749______-43.424______-32.569______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
47______-29.360.176______-45.795______-36.376______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
48______-29.996.467_______-8.585______-10.539______impossible______BOINC.SK
49______-31.113.658______-60.139______-48.172______impossible______BOINC UK
50______-31.876.262______-45.039______-35.994______impossible______PurePC.pl

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

 

[Assimilator1]

Everyone's avoiding the bad news today