Technical news, and SETI@home daily stats for 15.11.2007.

[Rattledagger]

The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution (Nov 14 2007)

In case anybody noticed we had the assimilators/splitters turned off for a bit to test the swap between our primary/secondary science database servers. Everything worked! So that was a valuable test, especially we'll need to do this for realsies in the coming weeks to upgrade the OS on the current primary (thumper).

Any mediawiki nerds out there? I need some assistance... We're trying to wiki-fy parts (or perhaps most) of the SETI@home public web site. However right off the bat I'm hitting an annoying problem: pages with '@' in their title, like, uh, "SETI@home." This is documented everywhere I could find as a "legal" wiki title character, but if I try to edit any page with '@' in the title it fails (saying the page - missing the at sign - doesn't exist - would you like to create it?). So I tried to escape it with '%40' but this also fails (as the software converts the escaped ASCII code to '@' which results in the same problem). What do I need to hack? Title.php? Something else? Google searches have proven useless so far (hard to search for '@' or 'at sign').

Dan and I re-seated this chips on the failing UPS (which I whined about yesterday). Now it works. All three new/used UPS's are charging now. Can't wait to add these to our server closet.

Outage notices: There's gonna be a lab-wide outage later this month. Probably the night of November 29th, but this isn't official yet. Jeff and I will probably have our own full-day server outage prior to that (early next week?) to do some server closet maintenance in preparation for the real outage.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_______AWD________overtake________Team-name
01______362.969.369______512.544______515.923______impossible______SETI.USA
02______295.297.741______452.531______422.940______impossible______SETI.Germany
03______127.270.517______141.868______152.940______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
04______112.661.658_______12.853_______29.414______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
05______107.015.685_______98.382______112.436______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______95.045.066_______21.363_______30.689______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______86.440.099_______73.282_______69.293______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______74.825.569______105.777______120.420______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______42.726.069______-41.212______-37.440______1.141 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______40.047.236_______92.891_______98.809______impossible______Overclockers.com
11_______38.842.965_______-7.738________3.324______impossible______Team Art Bell
12_______33.528.074______-42.193______-18.442______1.818 days______Team 2ch
13_______28.862.279______-31.083______-15.030______1.920 days______The Planetary Society
14_______27.976.861_____-119.755______-96.762________289 days______BOINC.Italy
15_______27.063.633_______-8.750________9.955______impossible______Team MacNN
16_______15.437.904______-81.187______-67.197________230 days______Ars Technica
17________2.045.696_____-106.876______-83.122_________25 days______Universe Examiners
18__________542.442______-41.030______-26.570_________20 days______SETI@Taiwan
19_______65.770.416______198.094______168.634______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
20_________-619.430______-63.858______-45.227______impossible______Phoenix Rising
21_______-2.091.060_______38.321_______35.593_________59 days______Team China
22_______-5.282.010______-21.672______-11.877______impossible______Team Starfire World BOINC
23______-12.274.475______-82.218______-59.698______impossible______Canada
24______-12.311.133______-53.763______-42.705______impossible______Dutch Power Cows
25______-12.557.092_____-119.896______-94.825______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
26______-13.413.911_____-100.358______-81.568______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
27______-14.083.257______-59.921______-60.134______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
28______-19.224.037_____-118.369______-92.212______impossible______Team MacAddict
29______-19.595.680______-17.712______-16.392______impossible______UK BOINC Team
30______-20.009.638_____-105.866______-83.685______impossible______Team NIPPON
31______-21.115.155_____-157.551_____-123.832______impossible______2CPU.com
32______-21.238.898_____-136.849_____-117.053______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
33______-21.307.633______-99.385______-75.197______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
34______-21.752.364______-87.196______-67.104______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
35______-21.826.519______-87.672______-53.079______impossible______US NAVY
36______-22.246.190_____-117.379______-88.987______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
37______-22.605.351_____-103.796______-84.110______impossible______Hungary
38______-24.266.489______-25.462________4.678______5.187 days______AUSTRIA - NATIONAL - TEAM
39______-25.216.419______-82.668______-57.070______impossible______U.S.Air Force
40______-26.686.446_____-159.553_____-126.955______impossible______Portugal@Home
41______-29.076.542_____-124.422_____-102.822______impossible______SETI.hr
42______-30.104.376_____-125.725______-99.056______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
43______-31.952.322_____-172.693_____-145.944______impossible______Picard
44______-32.273.861_____-147.786_____-121.757______impossible______Team EDGE
45______-32.535.685_____-145.330_____-120.110______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
46______-32.673.111_____-179.956_____-148.893______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
47______-33.599.393_____-132.689______-99.428______impossible______BOINC.SK
48______-34.192.662_____-137.650_____-112.617______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
49______-36.890.795_____-149.937_____-126.019______impossible______BOINC UK
50______-37.458.773_____-151.528_____-126.452______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

 

[bryanW1995]

we're never going to stay ahead of taiwan unless we keep a lot of our gauntlet buddies, but it sure is nice to put the scare into them! Universe examiners must beware, however... :evil:

 

[Assimilator1]

lol

Well the race is just a short stint ,but I think some people will stay on as they have 'rediscovered' SETI

I for one will at least keep 2 of my 4 cores on SETI for a while after the race

 

[dajeepster]

i'm swapping out my E4300 with an X3210... that should help... I did lose one computer though... I had to return the E6300 back to my sister... but don't worry... i'll be bringing the E4300 up in another computer running Ubuntu... I just revived a p3 1.2Ghz with Ubuntu... the first wu it initially said it was going to take 77hrs to complete... but after 2.5 hours, I have %14 percent completed and now only 55hrs to completion... I haven't needed to turn on the heat in my apartment yet... my farm keeps it a nice 80 degrees.... with the windows open

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stas, Rattledagger! Nice production - almost 200 K! :beer:

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: dajeepster
i'm swapping out my E4300 with an X3210... that should help... I did lose one computer though... I had to return the E6300 back to my sister... but don't worry... i'll be bringing the E4300 up in another computer running Ubuntu... I just revived a p3 1.2Ghz with Ubuntu... the first wu it initially said it was going to take 77hrs to complete... but after 2.5 hours, I have %14 percent completed and now only 55hrs to completion... I haven't needed to turn on the heat in my apartment yet... my farm keeps it a nice 80 degrees.... with the windows open

you should talk to petrusbroder. he has 23 computers!!!!!! fortunately, he lives in SWEDEN, not the SAHARA.

 

[Zim Hosein]

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

 

[Assimilator1]

dajeepster
lol ,saves on heating bills a?
It's a pitty you can't use the waste heat to help heat your hot water for further savings...........maybe you could with a heat exchanger

Btw what's a X3210?