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Need help with decision
Geek@Play:
With all the problems at SETI I am contemplating dropping that project totally and invest all my efforts into a differnt project. I want my new project to be looking to the sky and the universe.
I am looking at Einstein and Milkyway. Didn't Einstein recently announce a newly discovered pulsar? Please I would like some advise from anyone who knows about these two projects. Project uptime, work availability and so forth. Anything you can add to help me decide between the two.
My intent is to totaly end my work at SETI. Too many continueing problems there and I am afraid that major damage now will make use of the new server to replace failed server and not improve the situation.
Please anyone with advise on these two projects?
msattler:
I can't advise on your proposed choices, but I am sorry to hear that you feel you must make the decision to leave Seti altogether.
We don't know yet if there was any serious damage to the existing servers there, or if such damage is repairable if it did occur. Some of the existing servers are already slated to be taken offline.
I understand as much as anybody the frustration one feels when the project of your choice is down or not running smoothly. That's why I did the donation challenge to fund the new server. Seti is where my heart is. And I truly do feel that they are making progress, not only in terms of getting more of the science done, but in making their systems work more smoothly together. It's not their fault that cantankerous AC system took a powder again. That is part of the infrastructure that the Berkeley campus is responsible for.
Might you consider holding off on making the change until the current storm has passed and the new server comes online? If not, I shall have to respect your decision. It is, after all, a personal choice.
But I really do feel that better times are on the horizon for the Seti project.
Geek@Play:
Just minutes before SETI went down I posted a rant about ghost work units. One computer requested work, got 2 wu and 44 ghost work units. It really pissed me off.
I am currently crunching SETI on 3 remaining computers but have no idea if and when SETI comes back up. Of course nobody does. I guess I am just pissed off in general about the situation at SETI.
msattler:
I read that.........
And posted myself about ghosts and the huge amount of WU storage they must be wasting just waiting to time out and have another shot at being processed.
I have floated the hope that maybe when things get sorted they could restart the resend feature to start ghost killing, but I have not gotten any indication if that is a realistic possibility or not yet. I agree it is a huge problem, and one that need to be addressed sooner rather than later.
Vyper:
The only thing that COULD solve this problem is if they talked to BOINC developers and tried to incorporate a daily "check routine" in which the servers request a list of work you have currently in your working queue and match that with that list in their servers that says "you got these WU's to process" ..
If a inconsistency is found then the servers re-issue those WU's that you don't have in your progress queue to others directly within a day..
That is a simple modification that wouldn't put the strains to high on the servers, they ofcourse need to find a simple way of reducing the amount of data transfered to and from the servers and this implemantation is not only meant for seti@home , this is meant for the whole BOINC infrastucture in the way servers communicate with the clients itself..
2 cents..
Regards Vyper
P.S Geek.. Don't go .. Stay! It's not greener on the other side.. Other projects have their issues too.. D.S
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