S5R1 and beyond
Bernd Machenschalk
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16 Jan 2007 20:07:50 UTC
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This is a short status update. All of us have been quite busy, as you probably can imagine, trying to fix all kinds of problems, and we still are.
- Today we generated the last Workunit of S5R1. All that remains to do of that run is to crunch the remaining Workunits that are already in the database and for which no canonical result has been found yet.
[edit:] - There are probably only a small number of tasks remaining for every frequency band, which causes hosts to download a new datafile for almost each task. Dial-Up users may want to suspend the project for the next few days.
- A lot of problems we had recently, in particular the database problems, seem to have come mostly from the fact that near the end of S5R1 much more short Workunits were left, so they came in at a much higher rate than we expected. With the end of S5R1, things should be back to normal again.
- We are currently testing the setup for a new run that will look again into a smaller frequency range of the current S5R1 dataset with modified parameters (spindown and mismatch). We hope to start distributing this new workunits in the next days, so there should not be much of a gap to the S5R1 run. This run will last 2-3 months. It will consist of only one type of workunits that are a bit more than half as long as the S5R1 long ones have been.
I hope to have time to post some more info here as soon as it becomes available.
BM
BM
S5R1 and beyond
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Many of us can't schedule the crunched files for more than 20 hours now. When do you expect to solve the problems?
All the problems were known since end of December. The information of the project officials is still disappointing for all cruncher.
bye e@h... :( EggZZ
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bye e@h...
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EggZZ
RE: I hope to have time to
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My personal thought, someone of the officials should have the time to post some news on the project otherwise many chruncher will leave the project.
Oh come on... chill out,
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Oh come on... chill out, guys. You know all members of the project staff are giving their best; what more can they do? I didn't think information was so bad here. Don't forget all those months and months the problem has been running smoothly; it must have been one of the most stable projects around. Of course all those recent problems are frustrating, but as I said, they're all giving their best, so give them a break...
RE: RE: I hope to have
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I will not leave E@Home, sure.
The recent "problems" are the first since many time now so some patience is needeed, that's all.
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What happens now? All WU
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What happens now?
All WU uploaded, but report responses this (Example of one Host):
17.01.2007 00:39:23|Einstein@Home|Project is down
17.01.2007 01:01:05|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
17.01.2007 01:01:05|Einstein@Home|Reason: Requested by user
17.01.2007 01:01:05|Einstein@Home|Reporting 15 tasks
17.01.2007 01:01:10|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request succeeded
17.01.2007 01:01:10|Einstein@Home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
17.01.2007 01:01:10|Einstein@Home|Project is down
For more than 24 Hours
Most of our Hosts report:
Communication deferred 167.00.00 hours :(
IMHO this is not a professionell work
Chris(one of the Borg Cube)
Bernd, Thanks for keeping us
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Bernd,
Thanks for keeping us updated.
And we will remain Patient won't we.
Andy
Calm down, people. The team
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Calm down, people. The team is doing the best they can. Einstein has fun flawlessly FOREVER - it has problems for the first time and you jump down the team's throat?
RE: Calm down, people. The
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In the past 5 years I have spent time at SETI, FAD (a completed project controlled from Oxford) and Einstein@home. I would have to say without hesitation that Einstien has had the lowest down time of the 3.
But the one thing that I can't understand is why someone at the project can't spare a couple of minutes, type a sentence or two advising when the project is expected to be back up and put it up on one of pages that can still be acessed. Keeping new users in the dark for hours on end when the project goes down is the best way to send them running to some other project as fast as they can d/l the the software. I guess I just don't understand the scientific mind.
F. Prefect
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RE: But the one thing that
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Ford, you know how it goes: to get needed time, take expected time, multiply it by 2 and switch over to next larger time unit. With expected time of a couple of days, we really don't want to write down the result for those who don't know the law ;)
In the mean time, don't worry, happily crunch another project.
Metod ...