Seti in Thermal Meltdown

[lionel.heron]

For those that may not be aware, Seti is in thermal meltdown at the moment.  They are implemented some changes which are impacting negatively on their cruncher base, the general level of dissatisfaction has gone through the roof, and it is difficult to get work let alone maintain any reasonable sized queues to cater for their weekly 3 day outage period .  If Seti is one of the apps that you crunch do not be surprised if there is no work available, or you cannot get any work.

I would suggest that in the interim you might like to reduce the amount of time allocated to seti and increase the allocation done by other projects.

rgds

[Dingo]

Thanks for the update Lionel.    Looking at your stats it must be affecting you as that is your only project ??  I tried to attach a PC to SETI yesterday and the project was offline.   

As a side note Milkyway does not have any work either.

[lionel.heron]

yes, you are right, it is affecting me.  normally my queues are around 3k-5k deep.  at the moment i have one machine that is effectively on life support (it has about 2 hrs of work - it is being drip fed), another machine has about 800 wus (3-4 days of work, and sinking fast, and we are about to head into another 3 day outage period) and another with 1100 wus (its been falling from 5k since this started) and will run dry during the outage.

the initial change was the introduction of a 100 wu daily limit that went up by 1 when a wu is validated (down 1 for a wu that fails validation).  as all my wus are roughly 6-8 wks out, not much validation to date with the end effect being a decline in cache levels across the board.  the second change was the introduction (shortly after the first change) of the new weekly 3  day outage period...this compounded the issue greatly.

there has been another change late last week and the effect is that people are getting the following messsage "This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress".  so you can imagine peoples angst when they have 12 wus on an overclocked quad with cuda graphics cards (basically enough work for 1-2 hrs), and their queues are set to say 3/3 (6 days) and no work is being sent to them.  many are complaining about only getting enough work for 2-4 hours and then their machines sitting idle and wasting power...

rgds   

[ewok]

Hi,
Have just noticed that seti has been down for few days now.
Will it come back again?

cheers

[veebee]

Will it come back again?

Not sure what's happening (apart from the "3 day shut-downs now)... I was thinking about hooking up again, for something new for my GPU's.... but if it's gonna be a waste of time, well, .... I dunno if I will bother.

Might just give it a whirl though.

[Cosmicvandal]

 I too noticed Seti started the dying process a while ago, it was a bit disheartening when i detached as Seti was the first project i ever crunched, Not sure whats happening, but there seems to be a few projects going down lately, maybe economics?

[ewok]

Hi,
it's back now running astropulse.
server status:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html

[veebee]

I am only really interested in running SETI on my GPU's... CPU crunching is so ...."yesterday"...... 

I suppose though I should give it a run on one of the i7's... I am doing the same with projects which I am sure are paying lower than SETI would... so there's no harm in trying it.

[Cosmicvandal]

Better be careful Veebs, with your system the little green men may take a liking to it and come down and take it from you,,,,,,, :sg1:



                              better take out some insurance in case they do this to it,,,,,,






(i think the almighty multipurpose repair tool was used on this one,          )

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