Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 10.05.2007.

[Rattledagger]

Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)

In case you don't know the replacement server will arrive on Friday. Most likely it will arrive that morning down in Menlo Park but somebody will have to shlep it up here, which leaves little time for much progress unless we all stay late. Of course, Friday is the day that Eric and I usually aren't in the lab at all. I got a couple hectic gigs this weekend (one Friday night in Oakland, the other Saturday night in LA) so I definitely ain't comin' in on Friday.

Anyway, this all means Monday at the earliest we'll get the replacement server up and running. We're hoping we can pop the disks from the dead server into the new server and get rolling rather quickly. If it doesn't work for whatever reason, we do have backup tapes of the database and can recover from those. We were planning on getting a separate compute server containing a replica of the science database. We're actively pursuing this as well. We would have had one already except for lack of time/money resources.

Meanwhile, I came up with a novel plan this morning - with some creative hand waving we could trick a non-SETI informix database into being a temporary s
cience database which could enable us to at least create new work until a replacement server arrived. One major drawback is this particular server crashes all the time with unknown results. Such a hack would also add some significant cleanup to do before employing a replacement server. Nevertheless, we're sleeping on this plan tonight and may very well enact something tomorrow. Don't hold your breath.

Just checked FedEx tracking (via a vendor-only system). Not much resolution when the thing is in transit. The replacement Sun server is on a truck somewhere between Memphis and San Jose.

So it's been a relatively peaceful day. I've been mostly getting all these dozens of services, cronjobs, scripts, web pages, etc. off of koloth so we could retire this thing already. Each one seemed to involve a nested problem exposing broken paths, bad httpd configurations, misaimed sym links, etc. Fun. And the kryten system is basically out the door except I'm keeping it around in case we need extra splitting power when the floodgates open.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______258.234.645______106.755______584.774______impossible______SETI.USA
02______230.849.786_______50.145______261.946______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______98.189.951_______29.641_______73.485______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______91.451.419_______54.703______159.989______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______82.004.441_______50.441______110.575______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______80.570.973_______33.126_______65.585______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______69.523.632_______18.770_______74.196______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______46.189.571_______26.817______116.962______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______43.844.711________8.065________4.193______impossible______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______32.465.923________6.147_______-8.271______3.925 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______30.890.170_______14.642_______40.747______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______29.446.684________6.472_______53.872______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______26.131.914________7.144_______47.251______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______21.594.413________7.031_______25.815______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______16.110.207________6.384_______17.707______impossible______Ars Technica
16_______13.969.518_______18.780_______81.760______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.878.360_______14.623_______22.376______impossible______Universe Examiners
18_______50.230.272________6.427_______48.367______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.103.853________2.839_______10.563________199 days______Phoenix Rising
20_______-5.297.241________6.771_______28.965________183 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-9.917.648__________-19_______-1.723______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
22______-10.044.629________6.474__________524_____19.169 days______Amateur Radio Operators
23______-10.875.619_______12.672_______81.400________134 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
24______-11.169.364________3.254_______-6.939______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.268.304_______-2.459______-26.446______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
26______-11.777.906_______11.272_______20.609________571 days______SETI@China
27______-11.972.000_______-2.427_______-5.823______impossible______Canada
28______-12.694.428________5.515______-15.957______impossible______2CPU.com
29______-14.003.062_______20.622_______30.123________465 days______Dutch Power Cows
30______-14.990.037_______-3.234_______-3.501______impossible______Team MacAddict
31______-16.123.171_______11.105_______-4.738______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-17.828.322_______-2.644______-12.084______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
33______-18.044.781________1.265______-16.350______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-18.384.905_________-774______-24.578______impossible______Portugal@Home
35______-19.196.518_________-633_______-7.245______impossible______Hungary
36______-19.312.158_______-5.103______-36.815______impossible______Picard
37______-20.678.172_________-991______-30.453______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
38______-21.181.438________1.200_______16.223______1.306 days______UK BOINC Team
39______-22.987.652__________546_______11.444______2.009 days______US NAVY
40______-23.622.960_________-681______-17.948______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
41______-23.806.476________5.502_______-8.415______impossible______U.S.Air Force
42______-23.919.139_______-1.498_______-4.619______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-23.977.356_______-2.391______-27.897______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-24.570.398_______-1.280______-20.599______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-24.765.520________1.896_______-5.415______impossible______SETI.hr
46______-25.852.644_______-4.546______-24.993______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
47______-27.529.186________4.370______-17.681______impossible______BOINC UK
48______-28.423.779_______-3.372______-35.070______impossible______The Final Front Ear
49______-28.669.269_________-350______-27.591______impossible______SETI@Home Poland
50______-28.952.455_______-2.554______-30.099______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

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx Rattledagger! :beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

Thank you, Rattledagger!

 

[Zim Hosein]

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