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Take the Rat Bastard Benchmark
Challenge!
.....Rat
Bastard aka Guidant,
has set up a SETI
Benchmarking page. Take
his challenge. We have alot of members using alot of different OSs, CPUs,
and setups and we would like to see what are the most important factors in
WU processing speed. If we can get alot of response, there should be quite
a database of results, and some interesting conclusions can be made. Check
out his page here.
I should be putting a link in the menu bar soon.
He Once Was Here But Now is
Gone...
.....As soon as his bright streak across the Team standings came, it has
gone. jackal651 has left the team. His reason (from the "unofficial"
team thread):
Well, no more 400 WU/week! A user who
knew how to bring up the task manager (the one there is?) saw seti was
pegging the processor and informed my immediate supervisor, citing it
was making his computer "sluggish". (I'm thinking, yeah,
right.) So we stopped the process on his machine. And I scripted it off
the other machines in the building after werk. Funny thing was, at the
end of the day, the same user came to me complaining his machine was
still slow. So we re-GHOSTed it, and everything was fine.
*sigh*
So no more seti mayhem for the 651'er!! I knew it had to end sometime!!
*8^j
Jerome
youre always welcome back Jerome....just
bring your work units with you ;).
Flaky is not Just for Dandruff,
and Cornbread...
.....the past two days, the team stats were kind of flaky. Most of it had
to do with the unsuccessful server upgrade over at the SETI
home offices. Things seem
to have settled down though, maybe it will be back to normal.
Team News...
.....There has been quite a bit of movement and changes in the team over
the past couple of days.....some good some bad. First off we had the
sudden departure of jackal651
as noted above. Also leaving the Top 100 this week was Rob,
and Other.
.....If someone leaves the Top 100, that
means that someone must join. So in the past few days, we have several new
Top 100 Members: Mazinger,
elBeavis,
and davycroc.
Welcome Aboard!
.....guru
is now within striking distance of the SouthPark Admin Crew. He is only
500 WUs from the top spot, but the SouthPark Crew seeing this cranked
things back up to hold off his charge.....how long will it last? Only the Shadow
knows!
.....AutoLign
passed up cthulhu and now is sitting pretty at the
#5 spot. romkey is staring
down C. Eric Smith and is about to overtake. Whiner
slipped both Beryllium and Caesar a mickey and passed them both...he is
now standing at the #14
spot. Smooooooth Grimas
Smacks the Rat, and is up to #18.....and
is looking for an Uncomm0n way to move up further!
Finally.....Fragmommy
moves into the top 20
with the loss of jackal651.
More SETI@Home Server Problems
.....Hrmmmmmm....maybe some
of the Ars hardware gurus could go out to Berkeley and give them a hand.
They seem to be having lots of problems with their equipment. I'm sure any
help for them would be greatly appreciated ;-)
SERVER OUTAGES UPDATE
- October 20, 1999: The upgrade
yesterday failed (see tech
news for more info), and the
server has since been unstable. We will probably replace its motherboard
during the next day or so and try the memory upgrade again, during which
we will be off-line. If you can't connect, please try again in an hour
or so.
October 20, 1999
Arecibo Observatory went off the air today, in preparation for Hurricane
Jose.
October 19, 1999
The server was down for a scheduled outage today to add memory.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. After replacing the memory
we got numerous ECC messages and, eventually, much crashing. After
removing the upgrade, the machine wouldn't power up. We eventually did a
brain transplant from one of the splitter machines to get things back to
where they were. So we're down a splitter for the time being.
Later in the evening the server
crashed a couple more times, but with different symptoms. We found out
later this was due to a flakey switch. Generally speaking, this wasn't a
good day for the server.
Well....i guess all the action yesterday
would account for the weirdness in the stats for today. Not gonna rack my
brains trying to come up with something to say when the data is kinda
screwed today
ISP Problems Short Lived
.....Apparently it was just
some server maintainence last night...it was back up pretty quicklike.
Cant Upload a WU?
.....The SETI guys apparently were working on the servers today. From the
Berkeley home office comes this blurb:
SERVER OUTAGE TODAY
(October 19th) between 3:00pm and
4:00pm PST: We received a memory upgrade donation from Sun for our data
server, and will be off-line at this time during the install procedure.
We apologize for any inconvenience, but this will greatly enhance future
server performance.
before this upgrade, it seems that the servers were
pretty responsive, and a lot quicker for me downloading work units.
Unfortunately today's outage is lasting alittle longer than expected. It
is right now 8:30 EST and i still cant connect to the SETI servers. YMMV.
Weekly Update is Up....
.....contrary to what I wrote last night I was able to update the weekly
graphs. Check them out here.
Movement
.....and im not talking bowels... Uncomm0n
moves past the currently defunct Rat Bastard and into the #18 spot. jackal651
moves past both Uncomm0n and Rat Bastard and is now #17. The rest of the
top 20 is the same.
SouthPark Admin Crew is
idle again. It appears that they are in "frenzy" mode and will
be through December. Watch for guru
to be taking a shot for #1 while they are trying to crank out some
episodes.
ISP Problems.....
.....I was trying to update some of the
weekly stats, and it appears that my girlfriends ISP is acting up and I
cant access it right now. This also means that any graphs for the page may
or may not be available. I will update the weekly stuff as soon as I can
access her account.
Weekly Update.....
.....I will update things graph wise when the ISP gets back.....but here
is a synopsis on the weekly numbers. Top Movers include _Quinn,
amit, and Guidant moving up 24,
22, and 18 spots respectively. The leaders
for Work Units for the week are: guru,
SouthPark, and jackal651.....weighing in
with 1499, 792, and 397
WUs for the past week. CONGRATS!.
Top 20 News.....
.....Yes we have some movement. jackal651
moves into the top 20 today......#19
even! Whiner
has moved past Rat Bastard and into the 16
slot. Uncomm0n
moves past RB also and into the 17
spot. romkey
is now at #13.
leech and OrlBamf both move past tron into the 9
and 10
spots.
.....AutoLign
is positioned to move into the top 5.....if things go as they have in the
past week, he will move past cthulhu into the #5
spot sometime this week.
.....other things of note.....R.
Marvin has done quite a job this week. He
has slashed over an hour off of his average time per work unit.....he has
moved into the 10 most efficient members moving from over 11
hrs/WU to below 10 hrs/WU. GOOD
JOB!
Overall Team News!
..... Team Lamb Chop
is still in the #8
slot in overall team standings. Intel
has moved past MacAddict and is threatening Slashdot.
.....Speaking of MacAddict,
they put up a 2.7K spot a couple of days ago to put alittle bit more space
between us and them. Most likely that jump is because of addition of new
members. Slashdot
is still in the doldrums, and we are constantly gaining on them! WOOHOO!
Within a month MacAddict should pass Slashdot.....still by the end of the
year we should do the same. (I still havent had anyone take me up
on the date pool :-)
.....Our membership is lagging. If we
are to pass MacAddict, we really do need to add some members.
Unfortunately it appears we may have lost one or two members in the past
couple of days. The reason why it looks the "split" data for
10/17 looks screwed up is because we lost one or two memebers from the
bottom ranks (causing the total WUs from the day to look like they all
came from the top 100). Spread the word, we need an infusion of new blood
to keep things going in our quest
for #2! -public
service announcement provided by zAmboni.....
Parting Words.....
......Something good to drink late at night while you are updating the
Team Stats (ok it is good anytime)......is Bell's
Oberon Ale. It is a Michigan based brew. If
you see it around, get it. You wont be dissapointed!
-zAmboni
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