Two of our servers went down again. We are currently looking into it. Hold tight.

All server status shows disabled except for the data-driven web pages, yet my completed tasks are being successfully uploaded. However, I am not receiving credit for any of the uploads. Will I receive credit for them later?

Well, server status shows all green but for "file deleter".

The account info shows updated stats but it looks like the stats XML files aren't generated as none of the external stats sites are showing any updates for now...

Ralf

Two of our servers went down again. We are currently looking into it. Hold tight.

Two of our servers went down again. We are currently looking into it. Hold tight.

Dusty, I'd wait and give it some time. The servers should eventually take your results. I'm pretty sure it was a campus wide power outage we had and maybe the mail servers had issues also. It's odd that the email to me was bounced back otherwise.

Ok, thank you! I'll wait and won't abort the completed tasks. Thank you for the reply!

As for the email getting kicked back, I sent it to dekim@u.washington.edu, which is I believe what you spelled out in your forum note.

I was watching the server status all day yesterday. Four of eight rah_make_work servers showed "Not Running", in addition to the file_deleter and db_purge servers were "Not Running."

You were definitely more attentive than I! A couple of the webservers were not started up. I just did, so maybe that will get things moving.

Dusty, I'd wait and give it some time. The servers should eventually take your results. I'm pretty sure it was a campus wide power outage we had and maybe the mail servers had issues also. It's odd that the email to me was bounced back otherwise.

I just noticed this. If any of you see issues with our servers etc, please feel free to email me directly at dekim at u dot washington dot edu. I sent a trouble ticket to our sys admins and am waiting for a response. It looks like a couple of our servers are unresponsive and is highly likely due to the power outage we had this weekend here in Seattle due to wind storms. The lab's FoldIt project has also been affected.

I just noticed this. If any of you see issues with our servers etc, please feel free to email me directly at dekim at u dot washington dot edu. I sent a trouble ticket to our sys admins and am waiting for a response. It looks like a couple of our servers are unresponsive and is highly likely due to the power outage we had this weekend here in Seattle due to wind storms. The lab's FoldIt project has also been affected.

There was a big windstorm in the Pacific Northwest yesterday. Power was cut to the University of Washington: I believe it's been restored but would assume Rosetta@home is in recovery mode.

If that's the case, do you have any idea why I have still been able to download new tasks the entire time--just unable to upload?

I'm not affiliated with the project and was really just speculating. But there are multiple servers: perhaps the file system of one but not the rest became corrupt and needs to be restored.

Or something.

There was a big windstorm in the Pacific Northwest yesterday. Power was cut to the University of Washington: I believe it's been restored but would assume Rosetta@home is in recovery mode.

If that's the case, do you have any idea why I have still been able to download new tasks the entire time--just unable to upload?

I'm not affiliated with the project and was really just speculating. But there are multiple servers: perhaps the file system of one but not the rest became corrupt and needs to be restored.

Or something.

There was a big windstorm in the Pacific Northwest yesterday. Power was cut to the University of Washington: I believe it's been restored but would assume Rosetta@home is in recovery mode.

Well, I spoke a little soon ...

Hydrogen and YoYo did odd things ... the H people say they have a fix in so I am going to try again with three more tasks.

I could not figure out where to go in YoYo, so for the moment I put them on the shelf for a later date.

Should be about 3-4 new projects tomorrow ... Though I will be "balancing" my contributions to meet the goals I have (a secret) I have set for myself ... the good news is that I have been hitting some already ...

But, that it the point of BOINC, you gotta have fun...

I stopped having fun at 18 so quit at 20 ... did 6 years with the Air Force at McClellan AFB and that was interesting ... but my son-in-law (SeaBee) looks to be closing out in a couple years ...

But I thank you for your answer! Thanks for taking the time to do so. I WILL read your threads, but I am currently at sea and our bandwidth (and spare time) is severely limited. I left my machines running at home, however (hope the place doesn't melt down).

Think of it as a letter from home ... :)

What ship? I deployed on USS Midway (2x), USS COnstellation, and USS KItty Hawk (7 years 1 month 21 days sea service time - though not all at sea of course)

I am interested in doing the most good with my machines, which is why I looked at all of the available projects on boinc before choosing to stick with Rosetta. When I deploy in August, those machines will have to be shut down until I get back 6 months later, however.

RaH is a pretty good choice, though it does not hold my heart as others do, that is just a personal thing, I tend towards the non-biological projects by choice. I am trying to get enthoused about math projects ...

The best news, if you look at my signature is that I have been playing with plenty of projects, and, all things considered, they are running well ...

I forget how I did remote monitoring, I think just by watching the project logs on the web sites to see if they were still returning work ... you could just let them run ... if they roll over ... have the spouse turn off the machine affected. (My memory says you mentioned a spouse, if there is none, I hope you take no offense).

Take care, and thanks for all you have done and continue to do!

Can you elaborate on what you mean by " long range self help?"

No one will thank you for this question ...

The easiest way I can think to answer your question is to tell you to read this thread in its entirety, then the follow on thread and, um, this post and watch this movie ...

The other thing you can do is to read my post log starting from about here and read forward from there (just subtract 10 from the number at the top and read back till you get bored...)


In the fastest terms since no one these days seems to want to understand anything, or even answer questions (ABC forum example);

1) BOINC is hard and boring ...
2) Projects retreat into what I call their "ivory tower" and concentrate only on today's problems
3) the environment is toxic and hostile

And when someone tries to raise issues/questions, the problem/fault is with the person asking the question and not with the object of the question.

The last post in the ABC thread is the person pointing out that I am a whiner and that this person cannot wait until I leave doing BOINC ... other critiques are that I am a LONG WINDED, non-specific, whiner ...

So, how do they do self help ... well, collaborate for one... the projects are not isolated. The actions of one idiot on ABC, SaH, or RaH can lose a participant for a number of projects. For one thing, the guy that has taken a dislike of me on ABC is likely to be on this project also ... and many other projects also ... and looking at his link, so he is ...

But one thing he did say is true, two years ago, I did stop doing BONC, I stopped for many reasons, among the reasons was the prevalence of people like him ... now, *MY* opinion, if he/she cared as much about BOINC and BOINC projects he/she would be doing all that was in his power to understand the other person and try to do everything in his/her power to keep that person on board ...

Oh, it is also true that I am mentally ill, and I did stop doing BOINC in tears, and with encouragement like his/hers well ... do I really want to live in a neighborhood where people treat people like that?

Anyway, some homework for you if you are serious with your question ...

That's pretty depressing. Out of all the available projects for BOINC, it seemed to me that Rosetta could do the most good.

Also look at WCG and Malaria another two that can have fairly immediate impacts.

What Paul failed to point out was that the user rentension figures are basically the same for all BOINC projects.

And that makes is somehow better? :)

Sorry, but, this is an issue I have been trying to get projects to wake up about because it is NOT as inevitable as it might seem, and the costs of addressing it are not as high as most people assume. The trouble is that projects are so focused on day-to-day minutia that they lose sight of long range 'self-help' that could start to turn this around.

Dang nice RAC, Chief...

Welcome aboard !

They use the data dumps from the projects to determine the numbers ... there is of course some fluctuation as some of us are intermittent in doing work ..., but the order of magnitude is reasonable ...

For me, the thing to take away from that number is that 75% of the people that tried Rosetta, left ...

to me the most depressing aspect of this is that *I* think that the project could improve on those numbers ... if only ... and there is a song about that I thing ...

You can also get odd results in the case of using "oversized" ram sticks ... in other words, but using the 4G sticks the system is fumbling around confused by the "excess" ... it has been so long since I have struggled with these issues that I cannot offer more.

According to manual the board supports upto 128 GB memory, with 8 GB-dimms, but it's possible win32 gets confused by so much memory...


Long time since last, Paul. :)