Tecnical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 07.02.2007.

[Rattledagger]

Technical News:
07.02.2007

So today was a usual day until the mid afternoon. Eric got a new RAID card (as well as a set of 8 750GB drives) to add to his server ewen, which is strictly a hydrogen survey machine. I helped him pluck the heavy machine from our server racks and place the new drives in trays, etc. The drive trays required unusually small screws, so Eric disappeared for a while hunting around the lab for such things.

Meanwhile, some SETI servers were locking on ewen being off the network. It's a tangled web of network dependencies around here, as you know. And then upon turning the machine on we had to wait a few hours for the thing to build a 4 terabyte RAID array before we could boot the OS and free the stranglehold it had on random machines.

This didn't affect the public projects - it just made it hard to get any work done. But the following was worse. So I'm gearing up to upgrade isaac (the boinc.berkeley.edu server) and was inspecting its empty drive slots when I noticed that gowron (not the download server, but the download *file* server) was rebooting. I must have accidentally grazed against the touch-sensitive power switch right on gowron's front as I was messing with isaac which is right above it in the rack. Well, dammit.

Normally, this would be no big deal, but upon coming back up kryten and penguin (the upload and download servers) weren't given permission to mount it. In short, I uncovered either a bug in gowron's OS or some newly broken configuration, or both. Attempts to set things right required reboots at each step, and one such reboot triggered an entire RAID resync, which normally takes all night (when the project is inactive - several weeks if the project *is* active).

So great. I went home dejected and hating my job. Eventually I checked back in and found the resync of the download partition actually completed, and even though other lesser-used partitions were far from done I found a way to somehow trick gowron into letting kryten and penguin mount its partitions, and voila! The project is back up. As I write this missive gowron is still resyncing and people are connecting and getting work just fine.

01.02.2007

Over the past few days we've been trying to get our download server (penguin) onto a new network. All kinds of confusing issues as this involves two new routers under our control (one here at the lab, one down at the PAIX), and several third parties along the way. The map of the route, currently on the dry erase board by my desk, is a bit, well, complicated. The question "why are we doing this" will be answered once we are successful. Currently, while one of our web servers is on this network, we can't do much else. The download server is hitting a bottleneck somewhere along the way that has yet to be discovered.

Meanwhile, kryten is still being a whiny baby. Last night I cranked up the number of apache listener processes to help quicken the pace of outage recovery, but I never had to resort to this before. Another mystery.

As I write this, things are a bit off, and we know this, but we are trying to collect some more diagnostic data about the new network before "falling back" for the rest of the weekend. More surgery come monday.

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______196.166.655______208.791______338.430______impossible______SETI.Germany
02______178.503.077______411.375______761.699______impossible______SETI.USA
03_______91.291.132_______29.539_______50.386______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______73.059.932_______69.107______119.886______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______72.302.954_______51.647_______80.434______impossible______Czech National Team
06_______68.778.263_______57.703______126.964______impossible______BOINC Synergy
07_______60.525.131_______50.451_______74.132______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______43.705.198_________-462_______-8.843______4.942 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
09_______33.929.409________3.236_______-4.360______7.782 days______BOINC.Italy
10_______33.614.494_______49.523_______85.842______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
11_______26.848.648_______14.167_______27.389______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______22.253.987_______31.481_______51.583______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______21.210.585_______36.922_______41.297______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______17.565.475_______18.927_______37.154______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______14.011.271________1.274_______21.934______impossible______Ars Technica
16________4.490.328_______56.096_______84.364______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.924.518_______-8.752______-20.332________144 days______Universe Examiners
18_______43.382.419_______38.781_______74.145______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.212.183______-11.189______-23.610______impossible______Phoenix Rising
20_______-7.289.475______-26.698______-53.139______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
21_______-8.164.598_______13.532_______17.028________479 days______SETI@Taiwan
22_______-8.973.086______-15.748______-33.976______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
23_______-9.032.793_______-7.724______-17.732______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
24_______-9.121.510______-12.107______-26.785______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
25_______-9.663.473______-20.847______-37.985______impossible______2CPU.com
26______-11.187.763_______-7.364______-13.123______impossible______Canada
27______-12.939.391__________354_______-7.348______impossible______SETI@China
28______-14.099.941______-31.606______-58.412______impossible______Picard
29______-14.703.504______-12.254______-21.758______impossible______Team NIPPON
30______-14.817.757______-18.636______-35.990______impossible______Portugal@Home
31______-15.033.833______-21.432______-39.126______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
32______-15.154.378_______-4.773_______-2.314______impossible______Team MacAddict
33______-15.656.845________9.498_______-6.117______impossible______Dutch Power Cows
34______-16.053.864______-25.488______-52.090______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
35______-16.091.513_______-6.336______-20.465______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
36______-18.441.854_______-3.449______-10.213______impossible______Hungary
37______-18.609.356_______38.412_______54.222________343 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
38______-20.022.805______-21.631______-44.646______impossible______Team EDGE
39______-20.957.832______-12.524______-31.834______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
40______-21.888.221______-15.015______-31.089______impossible______HispaSeti&BOINC
41______-22.008.848__________686______-13.696______impossible______UK BOINC Team
42______-22.251.732______-10.436______-26.996______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-22.616.806______-20.707______-36.878______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
44______-22.636.301______-12.883______-21.224______impossible______U.S.Air Force
45______-23.658.982_______-3.507______-15.329______impossible______US NAVY
46______-23.841.729______-11.139______-25.454______impossible______SETI.hr
47______-23.982.824______-22.009______-48.259______impossible______The Final Front Ear
48______-24.406.699______-19.689______-42.385______impossible______World Wide S.E.T.I.
49______-24.622.799______-17.838______-40.202______impossible______BOINC UK
50______-24.721.867______-20.288______-38.919______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 news (very interesting - I've had just a wee of trouble uploading finished WUs and downloading one new one, which is not a lot considering that 18 comps are crunching Seti@Home) ...
Thanks for the sTAts too, Rattledagger! :thumbsup:

 

[Assimilator1]

lol ,interesting to get a more 'insiders' view to it

thx RD