Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 14.05.2007.

[Rattledagger]

Gasping for Air (May 14 2007)

What a weekend. As noted by the others they successfully got the replacement science database server from Sun and brought it to the lab Friday afternoon. As we hoped it was basically plug n' play after putting the old thumper's drives in it. After some file system syncing and data checking Eric started the splitters on Saturday. All was well until bruno's httpd processes choked (more on that below). So we were not sending work for a whole day until Jeff kicked bruno this morning. The bright side is this allowed the splitters to create a whole pile of work in the meantime which we are sending out right now as fast as we can. The main bottleneck is NFS on the workunit file server which is (and always has been) choking at around 60 Mbps. It'll take a while for things to catch up.

We officially retired both koloth and kryten as of today - both are powered down, and in the case of koloth completely removed from the closet to make way for thumper, sidious, and then some. With the closet as empty as it has been in a long time I finally removed dozens of unused SCSI/ethernet/terminal/power cables that came with the rack, all tucked in various corners and secured with cable ties. The process of cutting the tightly wound ties in sharp metal cages left me with four bleeding wounds on my hands - nothing bad, only two required band aids - but I've wanted to get that particular clutter out of that rack for years.

With koloth and kryten gone bruno has been taking up most of the slack. I noticed last week it gets into these periods of malaise where httpd just stops working. I think this may be buggy restart logic when we rotate web logs, but it's a little weirder than that. Adding insult to injury one of its internal drives just up and died today. Luckily it was a RAID spare so nothing was harmed, and we had replacement drives already donated to us a while back. Eric replaced the drive, but we may need to reboot to fully pick it up. Probably during the usual outage tomorrow. Bruno is dropping lots of packets right now, resulting in all kinds of upload/download snags and showing up as "disabled" on the server status page. This should clear up over time.

The server situation will be in major flux, and generally in a positive direction, over the next week or so. I'll be trying to keep updating the server status page, but I make no guarantees about its accuracy.

Thanks again for your patience during the past couple of weeks. While I appreciate the kind words and sentiments I should point out that this past weekend for me wasn't exactly restful time off. I was working at
my other job.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______258.457.533_______24.521______358.529______impossible______SETI.USA
02______230.967.681_______18.482______162.044______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______98.242.621________6.172_______46.610______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______91.517.075________8.664_______98.429______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______82.090.279________6.531_______70.553______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______80.634.307________7.366_______42.887______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______69.542.047________3.178_______44.829______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______46.219.597________5.516_______70.736______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______43.842.799________1.057________2.326______impossible______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______32.467.010__________374_______-4.803______6.760 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______30.906.378________9.161_______25.160______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______29.448.319________2.072_______31.728______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______26.145.951________6.334_______28.810______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______21.603.597________5.929_______15.947______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______16.122.389________6.358_______11.375______impossible______Ars Technica
16_______13.997.836________8.449_______50.076______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.878.717________1.639_______13.198______impossible______Universe Examiners
18_______50.256.902________1.700_______30.206______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.100.646________2.898________6.469________325 days______Phoenix Rising
20_______-5.284.936________5.199_______17.948________294 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-9.928.499________3.523_______-1.619______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
22______-10.048.552________1.076___________36____279.126 days______Amateur Radio Operators
23______-10.786.502________3.222_______54.141________199 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
24______-11.171.250_________-768_______-4.256______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.284.673_________-609______-16.633______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
26______-11.764.582________3.479_______13.033________903 days______SETI@China
27______-11.975.117__________325_______-3.686______impossible______Canada
28______-12.701.746_________-860_______-9.922______impossible______2CPU.com
29______-13.983.547________8.059_______19.234________727 days______Dutch Power Cows
30______-15.000.668________2.238_______-2.676______impossible______Team MacAddict
31______-16.129.118________2.963_______-3.135______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-17.842.105__________974_______-7.987______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
33______-18.054.944__________910______-10.237______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-18.397.376_________-317______-15.271______impossible______Portugal@Home
35______-19.204.476________1.242_______-4.762______impossible______Hungary
36______-19.334.938_______-1.039______-23.156______impossible______Picard
37______-20.697.362_________-995______-19.194______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
38______-21.187.283__________659________9.127______2.321 days______UK BOINC Team
39______-22.998.553________1.529________6.024______3.818 days______US NAVY
40______-23.636.977_________-511______-11.494______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
41______-23.818.421_______-1.036_______-5.808______impossible______U.S.Air Force
42______-23.932.059__________112_______-3.579______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-23.992.702_________-615______-17.410______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-24.587.897_________-701______-13.284______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-24.772.755__________230_______-3.668______impossible______SETI.hr
46______-25.873.955_________-886______-16.109______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
47______-27.534.424__________222______-10.718______impossible______BOINC UK
48______-28.434.591_________-979______-21.323______impossible______The Final Front Ear
49______-28.687.891_________-485______-17.450______impossible______SETI@Home Poland
50______-28.976.376_________-819______-19.287______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

 

[Assimilator1]

Thx RD
They never seem to have much luck!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Thanks for the SETI@home daily stats & tech news Rattledagger! :beer:

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx Rattle! :beer:

PS: You got PM!