Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 16.02.2007.

[Rattledagger]

We have a lot planned for next week.

First, we are going to finally upgrade isaac (the boinc.berkeley.edu web server, among other things) to increase disk space and put on a more modern linux OS. I just did some testing this afternoon - thanks to a DNS fake users were forwarded to a "we're down temporarily" web site. The bulk of this process will take place on Tuesday, spilling over into Wednesday if need be. During so, BOINC core client downloads will still be available. Monday is a holiday.

Second, unless THEMIS slips again, we're going to do the big network cut-over on Wednesday. More details will come once we have everything working.

Third, we got new drives for sidious (our new database replica server). We've been itching to get this machine on-line for months now. We'll simultaneously add these drives and do some surgery on ewen to add recently donated memory either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on the timing of various things.

What else is new..? Well, per user suggestion I'm going to make the most recent threads here sticky. Seems like a perfectly good idea. We also just got some specially made foam/boxes for shipping of drives to/from Arecibo. Hopefully that will reduce drive failures in shipping.

We'll have a writeup on Bob's observations regarding recently database changes which hopefully fixed our slow query issues. Turns out Einstein@home was starting to get similar problems, so we pushed through some new BOINC server back end code. We'll observe closely to make sure this didn't break anything, and perhaps make more changes. We're not gaining anything positive as much as losing something negative.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______199.187.560______187.224______349.379______impossible______SETI.Germany
02______185.410.750______436.191______796.110______impossible______SETI.USA
03_______91.661.057_______24.006_______46.438______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______74.038.080_______65.821______118.014______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______72.987.958_______42.651_______81.132______impossible______Czech National Team
06_______69.908.070_______68.956______131.915______impossible______BOINC Synergy
07_______61.156.792_______41.199_______74.959______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______43.595.583_______-6.122______-11.085______3.933 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
09_______34.336.579_______49.017_______85.872______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
10_______33.830.230_______-2.670_______-8.660______3.906 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______27.081.959_______12.442_______27.356______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______22.784.583_______35.410_______58.319______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______21.532.046_______18.525_______39.406______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______17.826.961_______18.520_______34.068______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______14.009.449________1.613________9.852______impossible______Ars Technica
16________5.244.473_______44.790_______87.211______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.751.567_______-8.759______-20.273________136 days______Universe Examiners
18_______44.059.005_______42.198_______77.622______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.421.745______-12.891______-24.551______impossible______Phoenix Rising
20_______-7.747.957______-28.142______-53.572______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
21_______-8.071.884________9.232_______14.019________576 days______SETI@Taiwan
22_______-9.238.131_______-8.270______-21.098______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
23_______-9.311.230______-19.469______-37.196______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
24_______-9.349.473______-13.022______-26.840______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
25______-10.043.258______-24.294______-42.038______impossible______2CPU.com
26______-11.362.816_______-9.713______-17.333______impossible______Canada
27______-13.093.106_______-9.974______-13.640______impossible______SETI@China
28______-14.650.969______-32.936______-62.001______impossible______Picard
29______-14.914.397______-11.106______-23.568______impossible______Team NIPPON
30______-15.166.090______-21.520______-39.026______impossible______Portugal@Home
31______-15.200.291_______-1.555_______-3.715______impossible______Team MacAddict
32______-15.396.531______-21.850______-41.235______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
33______-15.687.368_______-5.778_______-5.015______impossible______Dutch Power Cows
34______-16.293.881______-12.720______-22.591______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
35______-16.542.293______-30.106______-55.389______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
36______-18.189.286_______25.607_______51.917________350 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
37______-18.584.405_______-7.437______-13.986______impossible______Hungary
38______-20.423.775______-25.730______-46.489______impossible______Team EDGE
39______-21.249.835______-19.516______-33.450______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
40______-22.146.299_______-5.137______-15.338______impossible______UK BOINC Team
41______-22.160.403______-15.704______-31.499______impossible______HispaSeti&BOINC
42______-22.568.942______-18.933______-33.056______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-22.833.157______-12.052______-22.086______impossible______U.S.Air Force
44______-22.983.135______-21.943______-40.198______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
45______-23.762.579_______-6.483______-13.213______impossible______US NAVY
46______-24.062.416______-14.696______-26.186______impossible______SETI.hr
47______-24.426.834______-30.485______-50.942______impossible______The Final Front Ear
48______-24.826.104______-31.204______-47.290______impossible______World Wide S.E.T.I.
49______-24.963.679______-21.710______-40.323______impossible______BOINC UK
50______-25.129.222______-24.018______-44.017______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 techical update and the stats, Rattledagger! 😀
I hope you will enjoy your week end! :sun: Any skiing planned? 😉

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks RD for the stats & info 🙂

They seem to be doing ok on the hardware atm 🙂
Are they ok on the funding front now then?

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
They seem to be doing ok on the hardware atm 🙂
Are they ok on the funding front now then?

No, even with a couple resent hardware-donations and hopefully not needing to pay 60k$ for internet-connection when switches isp, there's still roughly 300k$ they're missing...

Kryten, the upload/download-server, still is missing an usable replacement, and likely still more or less randomly loses mount-points giving various problems.

Getting Sidious up and running will hopefully mean the end of weekly backup-outages.

Atleast Isaac and AFAIK also Ewen isn't being used for running SETI@home.

 

[Assimilator1]

Damn 🙁

Is their 300k shortfall a one off need or as a result of regular bills?