Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 13.03.2007.

[Rattledagger]

It's amazing how the one hour difference is making me feel loopy. Our computers more or less survived the unexpected change in DST schedule. When I checked on Sunday morning ewen was off by an hour. Its time zone was Pacific/Tijuana, unlike the rest of our linux machines which are Pacific/Los Angeles (or somewhere else in CA). Easy fix, and nothing was harmed.

Kryten (the upload server) needed to be rebooted twice within the last 36 hours. We're working steadily towards replacing it. Don't you fret. Bruno (what will be the new upload server and then some) was stress tested all weekend, and is now currently being configured. Since it is a new OS a lot of programs need to be recompiled. Plus the new OS means upgrading to apache 2, which means no more external fastcgi servers (?!), which means I was scratching my head for a while this afternoon figuring out how to change the way we do fastcgi around here.

Before anything goes on line we still have some physical clean up to do. Jeff and I mapped out a few tasks for tomorrow, mostly involving removing some switches recently rendered pointless and rerouting some dangerously placed power cables. Eric and I also got rid of an old switch in room 329 (replaced with a one of the recently donated switches). Perhaps this old switch was causing the
headaches with Kryten?

The replica server is working great but still not on UPS yet. We're working on it. I aimed a couple more queries today at it, namly the "top hosts" page generators and the like. Those particular selects are expensive and were wreaking havoc on the main database server when too many people were trying to access the page at once. There is web cache code in place to reduce this behavior, but the slower the queries, the worse the race condition that results in multiple redundant selects hitting our database at once. Anyway, I have some test code in there and will try it out overnight. Before doing all this I was given other logic to try (late last week) to reduce the strain but this produced funny results, as some users noted in a different thread. All better now.

I need to update the server status page. I know.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______212.551.401____1.407.655____1.094.651______impossible______SETI.USA
02______209.222.887______471.080______388.943______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______93.445.722_______83.958_______72.724______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______78.404.617______243.259______172.898______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______75.245.861______112.104_______90.067______impossible______Czech National Team
06_______73.560.804______185.501______145.073______impossible______BOINC Synergy
07_______63.629.247______140.945______100.444______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______43.664.370________7.541________5.674______impossible______OcUK - Overclockers UK
09_______37.271.890______162.842______119.509______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
10_______33.502.498______-21.655______-13.264______2.526 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______28.186.620_______51.435_______45.329______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______24.707.782______108.577_______77.643______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______22.930.758_______85.582_______55.832______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______18.980.749_______54.602_______45.699______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______14.554.281_______30.265_______22.980______impossible______Ars Technica
16________8.007.912______137.765______108.656______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.379.956______-14.848______-12.488________191 days______Universe Examiners
18_______46.037.937_______97.095_______76.299______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.682.216_________-475_______-6.412______impossible______Phoenix Rising
20_______-7.535.120_______46.785_______28.324________266 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-8.855.613______-47.592______-40.648______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
22_______-9.645.602______-15.963______-14.261______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
23_______-9.723.041_______-2.042_______-9.188______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
24______-10.010.211______-31.975______-24.859______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.014.343______-44.882______-37.380______impossible______2CPU.com
26______-11.582.505_______-8.346_______-7.070______impossible______Canada
27______-13.320.631_______11.183_________-813______impossible______SETI@China
28______-15.046.774________2.520________5.785______2.601 days______Team MacAddict
29______-15.362.581______-21.910______-16.642______impossible______Team NIPPON
30______-15.475.738_______35.353_______14.377______1.076 days______Dutch Power Cows
31______-16.134.136______-71.971______-57.069______impossible______Picard
32______-16.188.303______-48.916______-37.930______impossible______Portugal@Home
33______-16.434.398______-51.668______-39.469______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-16.491.085_______85.559_______67.507________244 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
35______-16.814.713______-23.138______-18.981______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
36______-17.872.374______-69.081______-51.020______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
37______-18.807.729______-14.740_______-8.199______impossible______Hungary
38______-21.537.372______-57.125______-42.582______impossible______Team EDGE
39______-22.005.591______-40.321______-28.662______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
40______-22.123.504_______13.016________4.582______4.828 days______UK BOINC Team
41______-22.874.227______-33.958______-27.273______impossible______HispaSeti&BOINC
42______-23.165.099______-15.955______-11.383______impossible______U.S.Air Force
43______-23.194.597______-45.389______-24.444______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
44______-23.691.700________2.919________5.305______4.466 days______US NAVY
45______-23.907.830______-42.238______-34.555______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
46______-24.322.176______-13.207_______-7.958______impossible______SETI.hr
47______-25.629.449______-65.388______-45.987______impossible______The Final Front Ear
48______-25.793.986______-37.463______-30.349______impossible______BOINC UK
49______-26.188.225______-68.859______-51.464______impossible______World Wide S.E.T.I.
50______-26.250.856______-54.491______-43.167______impossible______SETI@Home Poland

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...

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the info - which made me smile in sympathy - and for the stats, Rattledagger!

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx for the info and stats Rattle! :beer: