is Seti working yet?

[4GHZ_or_bust]

Rosetta contest is over and it's been a month since Seti announced a 1 month down time to replace their aging hardware. So Seti should be back up and running, if not real soon. I got about 5 or 6 days worth of Rosetta to finish off first.

[Exempt]

Better yet, with all the people around the world using their kick butt hardware, is SETI program working to actually find any signals? I should set up one of my rigs for SETI and join the team.

[QuietIce]

A new thread on the progress was posted yesterday. They're getting the science database back on-line overnight (should be done by now) and still have some work to do. Last thing I saw as a guesstimate was "early next week".

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62143

Guess it's time or me to start shutting down my Einstein work. I'm sure Horrible Ron will be happy to see that. I've been really ripping through Einstein WUs since SETI went off-line so he's not #1 RAC over there, anymore ... :D

[Sir-Epix]

A new thread on the progress was posted yesterday. They're getting the science database back on-line overnight (should be done by now) and still have some work to do. Last thing I saw as a guesstimate was "early next week".

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62143

Guess it's time or me to start shutting down my Einstein work. I'm sure Horrible Ron will be happy to see that. I've been really ripping through Einstein WUs since SETI went off-line so he's not #1 RAC over there, anymore ... :D

I'm still number 1 in RAC for Collatz and Aqua@home. Lets see if I can't grab that top spot when SETI comes back online. I have been eyeing it for sometime now!

[psionic98]

how can i get the seti team flag on my acct.. i've just restarted!

[QuietIce]

how can i get the seti team flag on my acct.. i've just restarted! UserCP then look for "Group Memberships" on the left side ... :)

[ihrsetrdr]

YHPM

[Jmtyra]

YHPM

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[Horribleron1]

Yes..I did indeed get some new SETI CPU workunits today. Maybe they have the new servers up and running? Yippie! :clap:

Horribleron

[psionic98]

Oh yay.. I'll have to look when I get home.. my systems been going wild on rosetta since I haven't got a seti unit in a while

[Sephis]

News

SETI@home is back online
We've been offline for over a month to remodel our database servers. The bulk of this work is complete, and work is being distributed. Please note we may continue to bring servers up/down over the next few weeks (outside of regularly planned outages) as we wrap up the final stages of this major endeavor. 8 Dec 2010 20:45:55 UTC ·


7 Dec 2010 23:57:54 UTC
Today was a "normal" Tuesday outage to back up the mysql database. You may have noted the result table sizes have dropped considerably since we turned on the "resend-lost-results." Hopefully this solved a lot of the ghost workunit problems people have been wondering about forever. If the database can handle it, no reason to leave that setting as is. A lot of people also noticed the server status page line "Results returned and awaiting validation" should really read "Results returned and awaiting validation as long as all the other back-end queues are zero." So most of the time this reads correctly, but if there's a large backlog somewhere this can be quite misleading. It's a painful query to get exactly what we want all the time, so fixing this is low priority.

Meanwhile, after the outage we started the splitters up (though there were some initial configuration snags that required a quick shut down and restart). Actual new work is being generated and sent.

So here we are.

<sound of champagne cork>

Well, not so fast. I'd say we're "at the light at the end of the tunnel" as far as the public side is concerned, but there is still major cleanup on the inside before we're fully out of the tunnel. Some agenda items include:

1. Getting oscar up to speed: Right now it's operating pretty much as fast as thumper (which seems disappointing at first), though without using any CPU or disk i/o (which means it's able to do a LOT MORE if we tell it to). That's because informix is configured exactly as it was on thumper, so there are some artificial bottlenecks in place. We're collecting stats to understand what knobs to turn, and then we'll really crank them up.

2. Converting thumper to it's new role as internal file server: Remember that our main internal file server (which houses a bunch of important, heavy-random-access data and accounts) is as much of a crashy liability as mork was. So this conversion still needs to take place, but can happen over time while we're live.

3. Basic electrical stuff: Jeff and I tried to move as much around as possible, but there's still some server closet power issues to address.

4. All the tiny specks of sysadmin revolving around replacing old servers with new ones (dangling mounts, dead entries in /etc/hosts, zillions of scripts referring to now-defunct paths, etc.).

I'm also busy revving up the engine to start sending out the annual end-of-the-year news/funding drive mass e-mail. I know many of you already donated in some form or another (thank you!) but this sort of thing needs to happen. I apologize for any redundancy on this front.

- Matt

I know its a lot of text, but that's whats going on. I've suspended new work for Rosetta, and when that's done I'll be switching back to SETI.

[QuietIce]

I know its a lot of text, but that's whats going on. I've suspended new work for Rosetta, and when that's done I'll be switching back to SETI. Thanks for the update! :beer:

[psionic98]

Yeah thanks. I checked this morning and SETI was still not sending me WU, so I'll suspend the rosetta for now.. still have enough for a few days

[peperonikiller]

looking forward to getting 3 PC's and 2 Server's back up and running for SETI :D

[psionic98]

If i could get some parts for my 2nd rig I'd run it on seti too, but running a stock off-the-shelf HP w/o being able to oc etc is a pits (its only a x2 3800+, but still.. crunching is crunching!)

[QuietIce]

That dual-core K8 at stock will run ~1000 RAC ... :)

[psionic98]

yeah but i really wanna oc it..gotta wait on a really cheap 939 board =)