problems with boinc

[voodooutt]

i just started seti a few days ago, now all my computers just say "communication deferred" and gives a time. no work is being done, would like to know how to start it back up

thanks

[Sephis]

According to the news from the SETI site, they are swapping in new hardware to replace some ancient dying hardware they have been using for a decade or more as well as reassigning some jobs to different systems. This has caused some problems with communication between the upload and download servers as well as the scheduling server. I don't really understand it all, but they are having some serious issues at the moment. I would just turn it off for a day or two and try again later.

And a warm :welcome: to the team. Always glad to have new people around.

[voodooutt]

ok, i see. thanks for the info and thanks for the welcome :)

[QuietIce]

:welcome: to OC*SETI!


I just took a quick look at BOINC and a lot of my completed units haven't uploaded yet, but some have, so a little functionality is trickling through. Normally, by Friday noon, everything is caught up from the weekly Tue-Thu outage ...

[Sephis]

This was posted yesterday on the SETI forum.


Message boards : Technical News : projects down until upload service is migrated

Reality got a little ahead of us on this one. We were days, a week tops, away from migrating
upload service from bruno to bambi. This will double our upload space and allow us to turn
off bruno.

We will now move this up and make it top priority come Monday. We need to reconfigure
the raid on bambi and then let the raid sync. At that point we can both turn the projects
on and start migrating the results from bruno to bambi. We hope that this will be early in
the week. We'll then leave the projects on through next weekend, ie no normal 3 day outage.

Link to relevant thread here. (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=61554)

[QuietIce]

I usually do go out and look I just didn't this time. You'd said they were playing with servers and we all knew this kind of thing was coming from past reports so I didn't worry about it. Your word is good enough for me ... :)

[Sephis]

Sorry if I came off as callous. I was just posting an update that I found while lurking around the forum. That was actually posted a while after my first reply in this thread. I've been awake for 29hours:rain:, so my wording might have come out a bit harsh.

[QuietIce]

My sleep schedule has been shot that last few days, too, and I just didn't connect the dots (time stamps). Your post didn't sound callous but, on second look, I could see where my first post might have been construed as not trusting you.

We're good ... :)

[FloridaBear]

Out of work. Boinc says I have 568 tasks to report. I think that may not include the 200 or so that are stuck in "uploading" mode. Well, time to put the GPU to work for GPUGRID again... too bad too, since I was going to push for 2 million SETI credits.

[voodooutt]

hey all,

I just added another GPU. The original one still getting work, but the new one just sits idle. How can I get it to start working?

[voodooutt]

hey all,

I just added another GPU. The original one still getting work, but the new one just sits idle. How can I get it to start working?

Found the problem, had to create an .xml in the BOINC folder and tell the thing to get to work, otherwise I was going to use a hammer.

[QuietIce]

The app_info file??? I thought the Lunatics installation did that. If not it's definitely something to tag for future reference ...

[ihrsetrdr]

-thought I'd poke my head in here to check status of SETI's hardware upgrade. I have a work unit completed on a recently commissioned SETI folder cruncher rig, but it just says "uploading"...forever. ?

[QuietIce]

They should be back up again tomorrow. At this point I think they're still on the three-day outage schedule, normal maintenance on Tuesday followed by server work on Wed and Thur. But don't quote me, I haven't looked at their forum for a couple of weeks ...

[Sephis]

28 Oct 2010 18:29:47 UTC
The order is out the door and we expect to have the new machines in hand in 2 weeks.

We are getting two identical HP servers, each consisting of:

A Proliant DL180 G6 chassis with redundant power and fans.
The chassis has 12 drive bays and these are all populated with 1TB 3G SATA drives
2 Xeon quad core E5620 processors.
96GB RAM as 6x16GB DIMMs. This allows for doubling the memory while still using the original DIMMs.
An external (unpopulated) 12 bay drive cage. We may well need this for the science DB server (oscar).


28 Oct 2010 21:49:45 UTC
We've decided to keep the project down until the new servers are up and running and the databases migrated to them.

The forums will stay up.

The back end and the upload server will stay up until we clear the outstanding results.

The time line we are looking at is about one month - two weeks for the servers to arrive and another two to get them going. We'll see as time goes on whether or not that's too aggressive.

The down time will be used for preparing the databases for migration. For example, on the science side, we can finally finish a big merge of the spike table and drop the old spike table. This will make the database smaller and easier to migrate.

We will also use the time for science processing and analysis.

Pulled from the seti technical news forum.

The one month window seems like a perfect time to head over to the Rosie RAC Harvest and help out our Rosetta@Home team.

[QuietIce]

Pulled from the seti technical news forum.

The one month window seems like a perfect time to head over to the Rosie RAC Harvest and help out our Rosetta@Home team. I certainly looks that way. I need to find time tomorrow to crank those up ...

[4GHZ_or_bust]

Jumped to rosetta for now

[QuietIce]

Thanks for the reminder. Ill keep the e-mail up so I won't forget later ... :thup: