SETI status [TA SETI plz read!] - UPDATE AGAIN!

[Poof]

From here:

Fiber cut silences SETI@Home

At about 3:30 AM PST on 27 February an optical fiber cable connecting the U.C. Berkeley campus with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was cut, apparently by vandals trying to "salvage" copper from other nearby cables.

The broken fiber carries data and voice connections for LBNL and also for the Space Sciences Lab. SSL is where the SETI@Home project is located, so the millions of participants helping to analyze data have been unable to contact the SETI@Home servers for more than a day.

Contractors are pulling new cable now. It's expected that service to SSL will be restored by Friday, 2 March 2001. We'll update this page as we learn more about the progress of the repairs.




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Folks might want to get some WU sharing going and/or maybe temporarily contribute idle cycles to TA RC5 or OGR...

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Fiber cut silences SETI@Home

At about 3:30 AM PST on 27 February an optical fiber cable connecting the U.C. Berkeley campus with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was cut, apparently by vandals trying to "salvage" copper from other nearby cables.

The broken fiber carries data and voice connections for LBNL and also for the Space Sciences Lab. SSL is where the SETI@Home project is located, so the millions of participants helping to analyze data have been unable to contact the SETI@Home servers ever since.

Contractors are pulling new cable. We now expect that service to SSL will be restored sometime today, Thursday, 1 March 2001.

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-----------ANOTHER UPDATE----------------

Fiber cut silences SETI@Home, Lawrence Hall of Science

1 March 2001

At about 3:30 AM PST on 27 February an optical fiber cable connecting the U.C. Berkeley campus with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was cut, apparently by vandals trying to "salvage" copper from other nearby cables.

The broken fiber carries data and voice connections for LBNL and also for the Space Sciences Lab and the Lawrence Hall of Science. SSL is where the SETI@Home project is located, so the millions of participants helping to analyze data have been unable to contact the SETI@Home servers ever since.

This morning we (CNS) were told that the repairs would be finished sometime today. Unfortunately that's not the case. The carrier has finished pulling new cable, but now LBNL has to splice the new cable into their own fiber plant. This process will not be completed until late in the day Friday, 2 March.

 

[JWMiddleton]

Thanks for the link Poof!!


<< ...will be restored by Friday, 2 March 2001 >>


Aaarrrrgggghhhh! RC5 anyone? Temporarily, of course.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

ahh, I was wondering why I hadn't been able to connect. That sucks..why would they be trying to salvage copper in the first place?


late


TDP

 

[BadThad]

OMG!! This is definately an outtage record!! Hope I have enough wu's stashed away, I think I do. Holy smokes...does everyone realize what this means? When it comes back on-line, there's going to be a dump on their system the likes of which they have never seen! It's gonna take another week for their systems to get caught up. :|

To compound issues, my freakin work C: drive (NT) croaked yesterday. Just got it back to today after a bloody format. Good thing I keep my data on the other partitions.

 

[Sukhoi]

Orange Kid's proxy is currently down too. It must of tried to connect to the SETI servers, and then crashed. On my machine right now I should have enough WU's go get to Saturday morning or so, and AFAIK I still have a few more days worth of WU's on Orange Kid's server for when he gets it restarted.

 

[OldGeezer]

I know I don't have enough WUs to last until Friday, even if ROBOR sends me a few.

 

[Fardringle]

Hmm...sounds to me like the Seti Cavalry may get a bit of a boost for the next day or two...

 

[Shuxclams]

Yikes...............









SHUX

 

[Poolman]

Enough WU's for about 12 hours left

 

[networkman]

My entire fleet has already been switched over to RC5, and probably won't have any of the machines switched back over to S@H until at least mid-next-week, and that's assuming that service is actually restored on Monday. :Q

 

[smp]

damn.. so my attempt to get some WU's for the team is over.. the fleet here at school that I have is waiting to send WU's over.. but the automated re-install happens tomorrow night.. all data will be lost..
Is there a way for me to salvage the completed work units out of these systems ???

 

[BurntKooshie]

good lord NWM.....you should put out about 18,000 blocks.....from home?!?!

 

[Wiz]

smp, yes you can if you save the seti directory you can put it on any machine and send the results in after S@H is back online.
You can probably just save a couple files from each directory, and if floppies are scarce you can zip the results to the floppies. Or zip them and transfer to another machine over the net.
There are many methods, try not to lose them for the good of TA!!

 

[Sukhoi]

Yep, Wiz is right.

 

[Ken g6]

Specifically, just save all the .sah files and you can use them anywhere. I believe if you use SETI Driver, you can put each in a numbered directory, and they will be flushed automatically.

 

[Robor]

OUCH!

It's expected that service to SSL will be restored by Friday, 2 March 2001. We'll update this page as we learn more about the progress of the repairs.

Looks like this outage isn't going to be over anytime soon.

Rob

 

[nexus9]

OGR, anyone? We could use the help!

-Nexus9

 

[Viztech]

I just moved (Fardringle's) trade-a-CPU over to OGR for the duration. If Orange Kid has any fresh work available, it will then go to the many machines that are on auto-pilot and can't be changed to a different project as easily.

Good TeAm work pays during these times.

viz

[edit]
Just read to the bottom of Orange Kid's proxy thread. Looks like things are well under control at Orange Kid's. Back to Seti.

 

[ElFenix]

time to dig up those dnet clients. which version should we be using?

 

[BurntKooshie]

v2.8010 or before.

 

[Soccerman]

wow, that could explain why our RC5 rate went up recently.. we hit 2 million blocks yesterday..

 

[Losty]

is this why my setti stopped after 100% completion ... i dont 'know when but it stopped...!!!

 

[blade47]

Well I'll be running out of seti units in the next couple of hours so the Rc5 team will be getting another 1124mhz until the servers are back up.

BTW this little outtage wouldn't have been a problem for me in the past but like a fool I deleted my old setiQ with thoughts of installing the new setiQ but I was waiting on it to be finished since it was being updated so often. Unfortunately I have been away from the forums for awhile &amp; never got around to installing the new Q. Poor little SetiDriver is just about empty.

 

[Poof]

blade_47... if you're not behind any proxy, you might be able to point your SetiDriver to someone else's Setiqueue and grab some more WUs for SetiDriver. Just a thought and something you might want to try if you can...

 

[Poof]

See updated message added to the original post. The same linked site has changed to reflect that they expect to be up some time today.

I still have some doubts and even if they were able to come online, hundreds of thousands would be slamming them trying to upload...

Stay tuned...