Tecnical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 08.02.2007.

[Rattledagger]

I just rebooted kryten again. It was the usual NFS issue, possibly aggravated by my zombie-result cleanup procedure and the catchup from the past couple days of spotty uptime elsewhere on the network.

It was exhibiting bizarre behavior which we have seen before but have no idea what the heck is going on. The server gets into a state where its hostname suddenly and inexplicably changes from "kryten" to "--fqdn" (with two dashes and everything). This is what the "hostname" command returns. We all know what "fqdn" stands for, but does this hostname munging ring a bell with anybody? Maybe this is pointing to the crux of our NFS issues (i.e. bugs galore, or problems running a newer OS on old equipment). Upon restart the result disk array needed to be resync'ed. Argh! This isn't really affecting performance, and will wrap up in the background within a day or so (I hope).

Earlier on in the day our front page was broken for a half hour due to a bungled CVS checkout. Not my fault - don't kill the messenger.

I spent a chunk of the day today preparing for the boinc.berkeley.edu server OS/RAID overhaul. Getting temporary stub web servers in place, backing things up, etc. This will hopefully happen early next week.

Happening even earlier next week is more network reconfiguration which requires careful timing with the network team down on campus. If successful, I'll finally divulge what we're doing exactly. If not, then we'll have to fall back and wait a while as other projects in the lab are launching and we can't be screwing around with the network between tuesday and at least friday if not later.

This morning a very nice woman (who found my phone number via her own detective work) cold called me. She donated money and never got her green star. I didn't mind helping her, of course, since she generously gave to our project and did all the work to try to reach somebody. The transaction took ten minutes. I just did the math: If I gave ten minutes of tech support to 5% of our current active user base, this would take exactly one year of my time (I'm at the lab 32 hours/week - I'm not going to do tech support from my house). This has no bearing on anything - just some fun statistics.

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______196.698.028______147.393______334.049______impossible______SETI.Germany
02______179.630.028______316.591______745.317______impossible______SETI.USA
03_______91.372.080_______18.142_______49.865______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______73.242.171_______45.903______117.663______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______72.439.377_______37.084_______80.346______impossible______Czech National Team
06_______68.944.022_______44.697______122.229______impossible______BOINC Synergy
07_______60.645.743_______31.702_______73.595______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______43.697.854_______-4.831_______-8.164______5.353 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
09_______33.932.777_______-2.141_______-3.372______10.063 days______BOINC.Italy
10_______33.746.110_______35.464_______84.461______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
11_______26.903.486________8.853_______28.037______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______22.351.360_______27.975_______52.421______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______21.282.405_______20.281_______41.454______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______17.613.391_______12.565_______35.786______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______14.011.350_______-4.297_______18.530______impossible______Ars Technica
16________4.628.882_______33.003_______83.717______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.906.451_______-6.136______-18.784________155 days______Universe Examiners
18_______43.491.961_______32.630_______72.545______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.236.162_______-8.638______-22.125______impossible______Phoenix Rising
20_______-7.364.522______-24.391______-51.698______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
21_______-8.142.623________5.480_______16.358________498 days______SETI@Taiwan
22_______-9.024.773______-15.774______-33.378______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
23_______-9.062.876______-10.854______-17.704______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
24_______-9.150.844_______-9.414______-25.267______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
25_______-9.719.544______-16.956______-37.135______impossible______2CPU.com
26______-11.212.995______-10.070______-13.384______impossible______Canada
27______-12.952.414_______-4.146_______-7.374______impossible______SETI@China
28______-14.191.777______-27.472______-57.645______impossible______Picard
29______-14.730.359_______-7.643______-20.801______impossible______Team NIPPON
30______-14.866.125______-16.593______-34.784______impossible______Portugal@Home
31______-15.091.878______-16.993______-38.278______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
32______-15.168.209_______-5.950_______-3.201______impossible______Team MacAddict
33______-15.647.818________2.025_______-4.338______impossible______Dutch Power Cows
34______-16.113.705______-10.310______-19.339______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
35______-16.131.158______-22.970______-50.979______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
36______-18.454.070_______-6.161_______-9.753______impossible______Hungary
37______-18.519.318_______19.648_______53.874________344 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
38______-20.079.359______-16.560______-42.805______impossible______Team EDGE
39______-21.002.550______-15.235______-30.935______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
40______-21.933.836______-14.936______-30.373______impossible______HispaSeti&BOINC
41______-22.016.809_______-3.125______-12.292______impossible______UK BOINC Team
42______-22.295.979______-13.786______-26.794______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
43______-22.670.703______-12.000______-21.030______impossible______U.S.Air Force
44______-22.678.736______-19.398______-36.742______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
45______-23.672.625_______-4.004______-14.112______impossible______US NAVY
46______-23.859.682_______-7.424______-23.190______impossible______SETI.hr
47______-24.038.342______-13.826______-45.703______impossible______The Final Front Ear
48______-24.463.690______-17.490______-40.952______impossible______World Wide S.E.T.I.
49______-24.671.205______-15.936______-38.343______impossible______BOINC UK
50______-24.785.634______-20.167______-38.649______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...

 

[Assimilator1]

Thx RD 🙂

I wonder if he's going to meet her? 😉

Starfire seem to be hovering at 330-340 days lately

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks, Rattledagger, for the stats ... 😀