Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 08.01.2008.

[Rattledagger]

Wet Weekend (Jan 07 2008)

Lots of weather in the Bay Area over the weekend, leading to many power outages. Luckily our project was not affected.

The new pseudo-random nature of our workunit creation finally worked itself out, and we were sending data at a relatively even pace. Speaking of sending data... At the end of last week my suspicions were confirmed: the router between us and our ISP (a Cisco 2811) has been CPU bound for who-knows-how-long, thus causing an artificial 60 Mbit/sec cap on our outbound packets. Further research will determine whether we can improve its performance or if we need to procure a better router.

We had an assimilator get jammed on a broken result. I had to delete the result to clear the pipes. This happened once before a week or two ago. A little detective work this morning uncovered that both such broken results were processed by optimized clients. I'm just sayin'. This could easily be a conincidence.

Spent a large chunk of the day trying to coax another Intel-donated server to life. We've gotten a lot of stuff from Intel recently, all in varying states of functionality (some missing CPUs, some have test boards, etc.). This particular one (4 2.66GHz CPUs, 8 GB RAM) was dead in the water for a while as it wouldn't respond to any keyboard/mouse. However, the other day I noticed one of the front-side fan modules wasn't seated properly. I adjusted it, and now the server sees all input devices. It's still a little squirly, but may be a worthwhile web server after all. We're calling it "maul" (sticking to the current "darth" theme). I'll announce it again if it actually proves to be ready for prime time.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_______AWD________overtake________Team-name
01______393.413.082______681.297______584.668______impossible______SETI.USA
02______325.429.000______872.717______712.826______impossible______SETI.Germany
03______136.617.039______206.578______178.807______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
04______115.730.363_______39.123_______55.560______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
05______114.075.646______160.048______150.244______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______97.587.864_______83.850_______58.310______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______91.347.158______116.303_______98.275______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______81.225.684______125.155______124.493______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______43.168.754_______53.731_______49.317______impossible______Overclockers.com
10_______40.415.760______-56.162______-48.203________838 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
11_______40.354.129_______39.003_______35.276______impossible______Team Art Bell
12_______33.651.321________7.757_______13.541______impossible______Team 2ch
13_______28.901.179__________591________8.040______impossible______The Planetary Society
14_______28.654.640_______41.167_______35.695______impossible______Team MacNN
15_______22.950.320______-91.989______-85.866________267 days______BOINC.Italy
16_______12.433.229______-46.668______-44.009________283 days______Ars Technica
17__________740.161_______62.696_______53.823______impossible______Team China
18___________33.599_______25.513________7.111______impossible______SETI@Taiwan
19_______74.597.365______171.543______153.796______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
20_______-1.399.665______-53.138______-46.577______impossible______Universe Examiners
21_______-2.403.026______-14.524______-31.798______impossible______Phoenix Rising
22_______-3.249.834_______82.172_______64.885_________50 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
23______-14.520.501______-28.648______-26.163______impossible______Canada
24______-15.272.005______-42.881______-51.228______impossible______Dutch Power Cows
25______-17.105.279______-64.864______-56.417______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
26______-17.582.286______-80.256______-72.510______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
27______-17.907.320_____-106.000______-94.454______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
28______-21.162.528______-18.966______-22.543______impossible______UK BOINC Team
29______-23.597.895______-59.418______-55.941______impossible______Team NIPPON
30______-23.609.208_______22.930_______22.151______1.066 days______AUSTRIA - NATIONAL - TEAM
31______-23.701.281_______-9.059______-16.753______impossible______US NAVY
32______-24.008.646______-83.367______-77.215______impossible______Team MacAddict
33______-24.340.498______-61.899______-48.704______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
34______-24.760.849______-44.036______-42.635______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
35______-26.042.578______-64.043______-55.414______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
36______-26.642.107______-69.020______-66.846______impossible______Hungary
37______-27.212.776_____-116.000_____-102.229______impossible______2CPU.com
38______-27.389.564______-23.891______-27.223______impossible______U.S.Air Force
39______-27.986.137_____-129.788_____-116.808______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
40______-33.060.402_____-111.211_____-105.202______impossible______Portugal@Home
41______-34.298.501______-97.092______-86.011______impossible______SETI.hr
42______-34.896.971______-87.859______-79.234______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
43______-38.567.952_____-123.542_____-107.110______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-38.644.651_____-113.409_____-103.320______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-38.889.397_____-104.597______-94.948______impossible______BOINC.SK
46______-39.614.220_____-146.439_____-132.498______impossible______Picard
47______-39.740.609______-97.104______-91.621______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
48______-40.523.573_____-151.917_____-136.553______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
49______-41.142.868______-58.097______-52.134______impossible______BOINC@Poland
50______-43.357.722_____-109.217_____-106.687______impossible______BOINC UK

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...

 

[Alyx]

Thanks for the stats!

The weather here was quite bad for a while, we've still got rain in the forecast but not enough to worry any more. A few days ago it was almost scary though.

 

[Assimilator1]

Hope you didn't get flooded!:Q ,what happened?


Decent output by us ,though I see Taiwan still outpaced us! ,have they stepped on the throttle?

 

[Alyx]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Hope you didn't get flooded!:Q ,what happened?

Flooding wasn't to bad, it was mostly wind. Bay area got around 4" rain and the mountains all got snow. Farther up in California, Chico/Redding area there were "hurricane force" winds, roughly 60-70mph, I drove home over the weekend and many freeway signs were down, and all the rest areas were closed from damage. Most of the houses on my street are now missing a good percent of the roof shingles. Lots of trees down.

A guy my dad works with was driving out to a ranch on a call and almost got squished by a truck that fell over in the wind. Truck was going opposite direction and blew over just after he passed by on the road.

I-5 between Oregon and California was closed for a while from snow (chains still required, no commercial trucks allowed atm) and last week Hwy 17 between Santa Cruz and San Jose was completely closed for a day from down power poles and trees.

Fun fun.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yikes, nasty!:Q
I heard in the weather reports tonight that Scotland could be getting gusts upto 90mph!:Q ,some strong winds down here (SE England) but nowhere near that ,or yours!
Close call with your dads work college btw!:shocked:

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stats and info, Rattledagger!

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Hope you didn't get flooded!:Q ,what happened?

This happened: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2166632772&size=m

I was trapped at home by fallen trees, but the worst part is that I had to shut all my home boxes but one (to watch the weather) off so not much crunching got done on Friday.

THAT hurt.

I had one small tree let go in the yard, and lots of broken branches. I have some video I should upload. It got pretty crazy for California...

-jim

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: Alyx....last week Hwy 17 between Santa Cruz and San Jose was completely closed for a day from down power poles and trees.

I heard it snowed on Hwy. 9 today :shocked:

-jim

(for those wondering, this is a coastal highway in California that *rarely* sees snow.)

 

[Assimilator1]

Jim
How come you had to shut down your rigs? power problems?
Nasty weather btw!