NEWS

Hardware freaks trying to make some sense out of a bunch of numbers

Problems Connecting to the SETI servers?
.....this has been up on the SETI homepage for the last two days:

SERVER CONNECTION PROBLEMS: Our server have become overloaded, and until we do a hardware upgrade (probably 9/22) connection failures will be common. Sorry for the inconvenience.

FreeBSD passes User Friendly for #10
.....OOPS...missed this one a couple of days ago ;-)

Added yet ANOTHER graph!
.....This graph is on the Top 100 pages. The added graph shows the Top 100 (ok 98 cuz Panders and South Park are so up there!) users in one graph. I am really sorry for the quality of the graph. Cutting and pasting from Excel is just not a good way to do things...especially when it is a large graph. Take a look at the new graph here.

Lamb Chop News
.....new to the top 100: Perb and thestranger
.....dropping out of the top 100: vlad and austin

Tips and Tricks page...
.....If any of you have any interesting tips or tricks about running SETI@Home drop me a email. Hopefully i will have this page up and going by/over the weekend
-zAmboni

SETI@Home Servers Down Today
.....they appear to be back up and running as of 10:00pm EST 9/14/1999

SETI.Germany again at #7
.....Maybe this time it is for good?

Team Lamb Chop News.....
.....romkey joins team Lamb Chop and brings with him 367 WUs.
.....new to the Lamb Chop top 100: romkey, Dr. Xing, & Whiner
.....dropping out of the top 100 (or leaving the team): aaron, Asunwoo, InSync & phil ditzel
.....mjdewitt passes Caesar for the #9 spot in the Lamb Chop top 100

New Graph in the Misc. Graphs page
.....This new graph show the trends of the top club teams. Added to the graph is a linear regression line and a projection into the future on the trends of the teams
-zAmboni

Art Bell takes over the #1 Spot
.....Nuff said, it would eventually happen and it did.

Linux takes back the #7 spot
.....Linux hops back over SETI.Germany for the #7 Spot

Team Lamb Chop Weekly Winners and Losers
Winners:

Losers:

There were 12 members in the Top 100 in the past week that did not complete a single work unit...
-zAmboni

Team Lamb Chop takes a hit
.....Last night it seems that Mr. Natural has left Team Lamb Chop. He takes with him 1400+ work units. The team standings took a minor hit and actually ended up with a net loss of work units because of this. Keep the WUs rolling in....this is only a minor setback and we shall overcome it.

Changes in the top 20 Teams
.....SETI.Germany leapfrogs Linux to take over the #7 spot.
.....Mac Observer moves a head of Quebec to take over the #19 spot.

Note from yesterday's stats
.....C. Eric Smith put on a big move yesterday by posting a whopping 89 work units. Definitely a good job...

Team Lamb Chop News
....After passing PowerBook for total members, Lamb Chop has passed Team Lockergnome to move into the #4 spot for total team members. We have had a nice stream of new members joining. To the new members....welcome to the team!

....Added a new page for miscellaneous statistical graphs. I have added graphs for the Top 10 member work units/day. This graph will show the top movers within Team Lamb Chop. Mad Props go out to the top cranker for the day guru@crashing windows! He was followed closely by Mr. Natural, and OrlBamf. Also added a graph showing the Team average CPU time/WU.....this graph shows both the overall average, and a daily average. The final graph added shows the total work units analyzed/member. On average each Team Lamb Chop Member has processed 62 WUs. You can find these miscellaneous graphs here.

News from SETI@Home

September 8, 1999
The new server configuration is finally online. The "science" part of the database (tapes, workunits, spikes, gaussians) has been moved to the 450. Several tables were frozen while this was in progress; that's why our statistics flatlined for a few days. Most of our software had to be modified to use the correct database.

Over the past weekend we experienced a combination of server crashes and university wide network problems. The network problems were resolved on Monday. We have installed the most up to date kernel patch to our data server. In addition, we are exploring possible SCSI bus issues, also on the data server. Because of the lengthy outages, we had a backlog of connection requests all day yesterday which resulted in widespread inability to connect. At this point however, things appear stable and all connections are succeeding.

Again i guess we must have patience with the SETI servers :-). It may be frustrating, but it looks like when they get this straightened out then things will be alot smoother.

Top 20 Team News
Seti@Home Poland takes over the #14 spot from the Yahoo SETI Club Team. Team Art Bell is within striking distance of the #1 spot...They may take over the top spot over the weekend.
-zAmboni

Ars Technica SETI@Home Tips
...Panders, the leader in work units for Team Lamb Chop comes through with an article to help maximize the performance of the SETI@Home clients on various PC platforms. Take a look a the article over at Ars.

SETI@Home Servers on the fritz (again)
...As if you havent already known....the SETI servers have been having problems in the last couple of days. Here is a snipet from the SETI@Home tech news page.

September 6, 1999
One of the 16 disks storing WUs failed late last night; the server host crashed and failed to reboot. We got it running again around noon, minus the failed disk.
September 5, 1999
Various software issues made it impossible to configure our disk storage on the 450 as RAID 5. We're running it as mirrored disks instead. There were some glitches (e.g. 2 GB file size limit) in transferring the science database to the 450, but this is now done. When everyone's back from Labor Day holidays we'll bring up the new configuration for real.