Technical News and SETI@home daily stats for 30.03.2007.

[Rattledagger]

Happy pre-April Fools

Oh, my head. So the database was choking all night. This morning Bob, Jeff, and I hashed out what could possibly have been causing this (especially as we thought we ameliorated this weeks ago). But we stuck to our policy of not trying to fix a soon-to-be-upgraded system.

So the action items were to bounce the whole project (including the database) and make easy adjustments of variables affecting innodb flushing behaviour - perhaps it will find the need to halt everything and flush to disk less often. The priority of making sidious the master database has suddenly bubbled up to the top. We'll try to do that in the coming (work) days.

For some reason on the server status page the upload/download server frequently, and erroneously, shows up as disabled. I can only think this is due to the many transient NFS problems we still see on kryten - the status process can't reach kryten's disks to see if a pid file exists or not. So for now, ignore it. We'll probably keep kryten up for another week or so as its traffic slooooowly reduces.

Jeff found a bug in the data recorder script - sometimes data was being duplicated at the end of one file and the beginning of the next one. We tracked this down and fixed it (needed more robust cleanup after child processes exit). No big deal, and it'll be easy to fix the splitters to work around this.

Other upcoming projects: Massive spring cleaning (getting rid of old junk, moving servers into and out of the closet, etc.). Recreating the RAID device holding all the workunits to free up some extra disks to use as global spares for the unit (may be a long planned outage at some point in the not-so-near future).

Three day weekend (due to the university's Spring Holiday). Par-TAY!

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_____AWD________overtake_______Team-name
01______227.621.040______884.102______913.121______impossible______SETI.USA
02______215.853.552______467.378______399.558______impossible______SETI.Germany
03_______94.898.983______111.769_______85.997______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
04_______82.267.585______313.165______230.710______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
05_______76.971.643______129.612______102.995______impossible______Czech National Team
06_______76.120.779______180.699______152.091______impossible______BOINC Synergy
07_______65.534.844______130.490______111.739______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______43.790.147________7.605________7.139______impossible______OcUK - Overclockers UK
09_______39.832.505______204.243______152.523______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
10_______33.202.158______-21.660______-17.828______1.862 days______BOINC.Italy
11_______29.060.743_______52.791_______51.985______impossible______Overclockers.com
12_______26.274.946_______94.910_______90.133______impossible______Team Art Bell
13_______23.976.499_______74.737_______62.034______impossible______Team 2ch
14_______19.841.318_______59.279_______51.105______impossible______The Planetary Society
15_______15.086.301_______35.842_______29.579______impossible______Ars Technica
16________9.714.166______104.832______103.003______impossible______Team MacNN
17________2.275.067________1.132_______-5.671________401 days______Universe Examiners
18_______47.329.540_______93.308_______77.759______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19_______-2.520.210_______15.452________8.436________299 days______Phoenix Rising
20_______-6.775.307_______57.491_______43.199________157 days______SETI@Taiwan
21_______-9.565.911______-50.866______-42.757______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
22_______-9.798.311_______-7.825_______-8.771______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
23_______-9.814.165_______-2.876_______-5.807______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
24______-10.405.434______-29.384______-24.091______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
25______-11.546.388______-38.784______-33.023______impossible______2CPU.com
26______-11.661.961_______-3.815_______-5.555______impossible______Canada
27______-13.029.198_______29.067_______14.640________890 days______SETI@China
28______-14.939.135________5.981________6.535______2.286 days______Team MacAddict
29______-15.081.361_______28.952_______22.653________666 days______Dutch Power Cows
30______-15.094.677______100.784_______81.321________186 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
31______-15.567.813______-14.482______-13.321______impossible______Team NIPPON
32______-16.844.046______-46.079______-39.020______impossible______Portugal@Home
33______-17.023.378______-32.716______-35.026______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
34______-17.100.382______-72.967______-58.340______impossible______Picard
35______-17.132.172______-25.845______-18.847______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
36______-18.751.894______-63.544______-52.610______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
37______-18.905.575_________-415_______-5.008______impossible______Hungary
38______-21.863.275_______13.203_______13.171______1.660 days______UK BOINC Team
39______-22.280.600______-52.928______-44.366______impossible______Team EDGE
40______-22.473.664______-38.717______-28.343______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
41______-23.329.930_______-7.497______-10.114______impossible______U.S.Air Force
42______-23.330.096______-35.632______-27.470______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
43______-23.523.033_______17.189_______10.242______2.297 days______US NAVY
44______-23.731.733______-32.197______-30.012______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
45______-24.345.762______-10.820_______-3.440______impossible______SETI.hr
46______-24.437.629______-41.952______-33.011______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
47______-26.274.635______-40.357______-29.604______impossible______BOINC UK
48______-26.347.124______-51.582______-43.774______impossible______The Final Front Ear
49______-26.955.916______-54.247______-43.237______impossible______SETI@Home Poland
50______-27.066.216______-65.260______-52.840______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

 

[Assimilator1]

China's after us now!:Q



Thx RD

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stats, Rattledagger!

 

[Wino]

After a 4 year hiatus, I'm back on team! Got my new Vista box E6600 @ 3.15GHz 4GB RAM on the case!

I just rejoined the team (had to convert over my SETI "classic" account to this newfangled BOINC stuff. I'm just running the single user mode with the flashy gfx. Anything I need to know about this stuff that changed since 2003?

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: Wino
After a 4 year hiatus, I'm back on team! Got my new Vista box E6600 @ 3.15GHz 4GB RAM on the case!

I just rejoined the team (had to convert over my SETI "classic" account to this newfangled BOINC stuff. I'm just running the single user mode with the flashy gfx. Anything I need to know about this stuff that changed since 2003?

Welcome.

The default preferences should normally work without any problems, but maybe an idea to change "Run while user active?" to Yes.

Also, can increase cache-size by increasing "Connect to network about every N days", so can better handle outages. Also, it's recommended to "attach" to one or more "backup"-projects, just assign a low resource-share to these.

 

[petrusbroder]

Welcome back, Wino!
Your output is very welcome!

 

[Assimilator1]

Welcome back to The search Wino

Btw the pretty graphics slows down crunching times a lot

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Wino
After a 4 year hiatus, I'm back on team! Got my new Vista box E6600 @ 3.15GHz 4GB RAM on the case!

I just rejoined the team (had to convert over my SETI "classic" account to this newfangled BOINC stuff. I'm just running the single user mode with the flashy gfx. Anything I need to know about this stuff that changed since 2003?

Install this:

http://lunatics.at/index.php?module=Downloads;sa=dlview;id=68

It'll speed it up ~90%, you'll get a ~1900 RAC.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Assimilator1]

Forgot to say ,nice rig wino