Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 16.05.2007.

[Rattledagger]

Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)

We had the usual outage today which was mostly a success. The database compressed and was backed up in just over an hour. Normally this takes almost twice as long but the result table has significantly shrunk over the past two weeks (wonder why?). After that we put the new thumper in the closet (we being me, Eric, Jeff, and Kevin - it's a heavy machine). We also rebooted bruno to cleanly pick up a new disk (replacing a failed disk from yesterday). And I rebooted penguin to attach koloth's old tape drive to it (so it could read the classic data tapes for splitting).

That all went well. We also updated all the BOINC-side code to bring the SETI@home project in line with the current BOINC source tree and a few things broke, namely our validators and assimilators. These aren't project critical for the time being, so we're postponing dealing with these until we deal with the real problem at hand: getting people to connect to our data servers.

I think this is the longest outage we've ever had (even though it wasn't a "complete" outage - just no work was available) and we're in a whole new network configuration since the last major outage (new OS, new servers, new ISP, new switches, new router). In short, we're being clobbered by the returning flood of work requests. The major bottleneck is somewhere in the direction of our Hurricane router or bruno. Or at least that's the way it seems right now and there's no guarantee that when we break that dam a new bottleneck won't arise. I don't have the time to spell out what is broken and what we tried and what failed and what yielded unexpected results. Just know we're working on it and we understand most connections are being dropped.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______258.475.871_______18.338______341.294______impossible______SETI.USA
02______230.977.232________9.551______154.377______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______98.244.082________1.461_______44.282______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______91.521.935________4.860_______93.682______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______82.092.608________2.329_______67.040______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______80.637.718________3.411_______40.941______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______69.544.438________2.391_______42.685______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______46.223.139________3.542_______67.329______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______43.843.963________1.164________2.313______impossible______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______32.467.351__________341_______-4.516______7.189 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______30.907.092__________714_______23.897______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______29.449.532________1.213_______30.165______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______26.150.300________4.349_______27.700______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______21.605.508________1.911_______15.285______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______16.123.591________1.202_______10.888______impossible______Ars Technica
16_______14.005.248________7.412_______48.134______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.879.611__________894_______12.585______impossible______Universe Examiners
18_______50.257.733__________831_______28.686______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.100.299__________347________6.159________341 days______Phoenix Rising
20_______-5.281.908________3.028_______17.287________306 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-9.924.169________4.330_______-1.120______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
22______-10.048.264__________288___________62____162.069 days______Amateur Radio Operators
23______-10.784.294________2.208_______51.487________209 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
24______-11.171.674_________-424_______-4.071______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.285.147_________-474______-15.797______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
26______-11.762.540________2.042_______12.538________938 days______SETI@China
27______-11.974.898__________219_______-3.470______impossible______Canada
28______-12.701.801__________-55_______-9.402______impossible______2CPU.com
29______-13.981.347________2.200_______18.426________759 days______Dutch Power Cows
30______-14.998.728________1.940_______-2.349______impossible______Team MacAddict
31______-16.128.146__________972_______-2.876______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-17.841.977__________128_______-7.552______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
33______-18.055.151_________-207_______-9.715______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-18.397.610_________-234______-14.485______impossible______Portugal@Home
35______-19.204.193__________283_______-4.483______impossible______Hungary
36______-19.335.672_________-734______-22.000______impossible______Picard
37______-20.697.996_________-634______-18.238______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
38______-21.186.818__________465________8.688______2.439 days______UK BOINC Team
39______-22.997.437________1.116________5.812______3.957 days______US NAVY
40______-23.636.947___________30______-10.882______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
41______-23.818.247__________174_______-5.484______impossible______U.S.Air Force
42______-23.931.319__________740_______-3.319______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-23.992.941_________-239______-16.511______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-24.588.319_________-422______-12.621______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-24.773.110_________-355_______-3.508______impossible______SETI.hr
46______-25.874.394_________-439______-15.298______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
47______-27.533.329________1.095______-10.046______impossible______BOINC UK
48______-28.435.164_________-573______-20.249______impossible______The Final Front Ear
49______-28.688.052_________-161______-16.541______impossible______SETI@Home Poland
50______-28.976.969_________-593______-18.323______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

 

[Zim Hosein]

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

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx for info and stats RD :gift:

 

[amdxborg]

Thanx RD!

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the numbers and info, Rattledagger! :sun:
Have a good "long" weekend (I hope!)