Message from Cosmo

[gatekeeper53]

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]

Thanks Terry.
That explains a lot and sets the expectations in place.
Great work.

[gatekeeper53]

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]

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]

Seems to be working ok now.

Is it just me or are the Cosmology WU's getting longer every couple of weeks?

[LeBo]

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]

Yes, my crunchers were talking again when I got up this morning....

[Lagu]

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]

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 ...