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gatekeeper53
11-11-2007, 03:01 PM
Dear Terry -
Thank you for your mail.
We had a sudden unforeseen hardware failure Friday
night - we have been
working to get the server back up and running. Since
it is the week-end
it is harder to get replacement parts, so the system
may continue to be
down for of a couple of days before things will be
back on track.
It would be great if you could get a message to our
users about this -
we were trying to think of a way, but I could not even
post on my
webpage because it is running on the same server that
is hosting
cosmology@home.
All the best,
Ben
AMDave
11-11-2007, 03:03 PM
Thanks Terry.
That explains a lot and sets the expectations in place.
Great work.
gatekeeper53
11-11-2007, 03:46 PM
Dear Terry -
That's very kind of you. I have forwarded your message
to Scott Kruger,
who has been tracking down exactly what the issue is.
It appears to be a
motherboard failure. Cosmology@home is running on a
dual Opteron platform.
It does not appear to be a hard drive problem. Even if
it had been , we
store all our programs and data on that server
completely redundantly,
plus we backed up daily so all the scientific results
of cosmology@home
so far are protected. If you do have a way of
communicating with at
least some of our users, this would also be a good
message to get out there.
All the best,
Ben
Bender10
11-28-2007, 02:10 AM
The Cosmo server seems to be down again. A cruncher as posted this fact on the Cosmo Discussion board.
It's been down for a few hours. Hopefully this will be rectified in the am...
NeoGen
11-28-2007, 03:49 PM
Seems to be working ok now.
Is it just me or are the Cosmology WU's getting longer every couple of weeks?
Some of mine are longer than others. They might be trying to easy them up slowly. BTW I was wondering the same thing myself...:)
Bender10
11-28-2007, 04:31 PM
Yes, my crunchers were talking again when I got up this morning....
Yes, I have noticed how my AMD Athlon 5125EA finished a WU after 4 then 6 and now about 10 hours something. My Intel finishes 2 WU’s in over or under 3 hours. I think it was 1,5 hours when I began run Cosmo but I can be wrong.
It feels as a setback if their WU will be longer and longer.
PoorBoy
11-28-2007, 10:19 PM
The WU Lengths jump all over the place but are in a range for the type of CPU & other Hardware you have. My Quads run them from as low as 35 Minutes to as high as 3 hr's & 30 Minutes but most of the Wu's are around the 2 hr range it seems for me.
The Wu Lengths have increased from when the Credit was @ 50 Per Wu but thats 1 of the reasons why the Credit was increased to 100 Per Wu to compensate for it to some degree ... It's still very good Credit though I think, heck my P4 3.4 Laptop can get around 700-800 Credits Per days from the Project & thats more than what it would get from most of the other Projects ... :)
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