Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 25.05.2007.

[Rattledagger]

Chaos at the Greasy Spoon (May 24 2007)

Jeff, Eric, and I had our software meeting this morning, which happens every Thursday. As usual we discuss the game plan as far as bringing a new splitter on line, coding conventions for the near time persistency checker, etc. Then something happens to keep us from doing anything on this front.

Today, at least for me and Jeff, it was isaac crashing. This machine is the boinc.berkeley.edu web server, among other things. Short story: lots of CPU errors, rebooting doesn't help, we tried putting in new memory, no sign of overheating. We got it in rescue mode a put in a non-xen kernel. It's been stable for the past 15 minutes. We'll see if that holds. Doubtful. A service call may be in order. There's a DNS redirect pointing to a stub page in the meantime.

We still haven't figured out the magic settings on bruno and ptolemy, so packets are still getting dropped here and there, causing all kinds of headaches near and far. A lot of work is getting sent and results returned, and we're creating a healthy backlog of workunits to send out as I type, but there is still work to be done. I have no insights on ghost workunits outside of what has already been discussed on these boards.

Hmm. Isaac still hasn't crashed, and Jeff is really exercising the system at this point. Maybe it was a bad kernel after all, though not sure why this would have broken all of a sudden (no new kernel has been installed in a while). I'll revert to the original page in 30 minutes or so if we remain up.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______262.249.087______460.638______393.720______impossible______SETI.USA
02______232.660.524______199.486______174.728______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______98.602.560_______66.920_______43.171______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______92.146.514_______86.604_______79.369______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______82.703.078_______98.863_______69.676______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______81.033.492_______54.050_______43.344______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______69.981.049_______62.282_______47.046______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______46.905.254______101.240_______74.520______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______43.836.496_______21.767________1.103______impossible______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______32.391.136_______-1.099_______-6.897______4.696 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______30.934.657_______12.307_______11.943______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______29.770.752_______50.804_______35.082______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______26.448.283_______44.436_______30.857______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______21.861.934_______38.496_______23.819______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______16.168.633_______11.752________7.897______impossible______Ars Technica
16_______14.412.127_______62.581_______47.270______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.862.355________9.593________4.461______impossible______Universe Examiners
18_______50.622.179_______40.110_______36.181______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.092.381_______14.695________3.334________628 days______Phoenix Rising
20_______-5.169.721_______12.981_______13.630________379 days______SETI@Taiwan
21______-10.006.845________5.988_______-6.124______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
22______-10.165.554______-13.714_______-7.728______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
23______-10.702.228_______14.393_______26.451________405 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
24______-11.267.779________6.422_______-6.941______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.497.830______-23.633______-20.752______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
26______-11.713.808_______16.222________8.619______1.359 days______SETI@China
27______-12.019.537________2.953_______-3.914______impossible______Canada
28______-12.910.437______-16.829______-17.686______impossible______2CPU.com
29______-14.009.639________7.258________4.868______2.878 days______Dutch Power Cows
30______-14.973.386________8.939__________913_____16.400 days______Team MacAddict
31______-16.175.655_______-2.727_______-4.382______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-17.940.460_______-5.186_______-9.736______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
33______-18.165.418_______-5.687______-10.963______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-18.578.911______-16.575______-17.940______impossible______Portugal@Home
35______-19.256.309_______-4.028_______-5.252______impossible______Hungary
36______-19.607.605______-20.467______-26.980______impossible______Picard
37______-20.947.304______-26.498______-24.142______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
38______-21.246.741_______-1.439_________-946______impossible______UK BOINC Team
39______-22.946.362_______17.338________6.477______3.543 days______US NAVY
40______-23.773.407______-12.269______-13.492______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
41______-23.921.542________6.561_______-8.484______impossible______U.S.Air Force
42______-24.020.190_______-1.718_______-7.079______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-24.192.927______-17.330______-20.129______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-24.700.948_______-7.011______-12.393______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-24.962.290______-11.615______-13.999______impossible______SETI.hr
46______-26.077.766______-17.214______-19.657______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
47______-27.691.007______-16.382______-14.567______impossible______BOINC UK
48______-28.744.797______-34.245______-29.132______impossible______The Final Front Ear
49______-28.875.319______-19.751______-19.398______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

 

[BlackMountainCow]

:laugh: OMG, these guys really are to be worried about!


Thx RD! :beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks Rattledagger!

Yeah, they really work hard - and have a lot of problems!