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arkayn:
From the front page at SETI@Home...


--- Quote ---Planned Power Outage
Repairs are necessary after the short circuit that caused power failures in several labs here on campus two weeks ago. These repairs require a planned power outage, which starts this afternoon (Tuesday 22:00 UTC). We'll be back on line Thursday morning (roughly Thursday 17:00 UTC). Our websites and data servers will be offline throughout this outage. 29 May 2012 | 17:11:12 UTC

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perryjay:
Thursday morning???   OUCH!!!

msattler:
Owie.....
But thanks for the info, arkayn.
I had not seen that notice.
Better than if the servers had crashed, I guess.

Meow.

Richard Haselgrove:
This time, the BOINC servers and website will be able to stay up at least part of the time. Their outage (times in PDT) was posted as


--- Quote ---Due to a planned power outage, the BOINC web site will be down tomorrow (Wed 30 May) from:
3:45 AM to 11:00 AM
5:00 PM to 8:00 AM the next day.
--- End quote ---

Two reasons for the difference:

1) SETI is a complicated beast with lots of interconnected servers. It's best if they're powered down carefully (and in the right order) while the staff are on-site, and powered back on again the same way.

2) "Two big temporary generators got moved into the SSL parking lot today. The lab has enough back-up generator power for Isaac [the BOINC server] and for the lab routers and switches, but not enough to keep seti@home up."

RottenMutt:
so the servers will be back on line FRIDAY!!!

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