Jeffrey Ottie
Sat, 25 May 2002 02:45:21 -0700
This page is a repost of the latest technical news on the astronomical and computer-system sides of SETI@home. Links to the original post and to the article * A Question of Bandwidth * can be found below. -- Jeffrey Ottie `~^ ) May 23, 2002 Yesterday (May 22) was a busy day for SETI@home. We have been preparing for a while to vastly increase our bandwidth. For more information on that, see the article from the Planetary Society: A Question of Bandwidth. There was a network outage early in the day to establish the complete link between the routers in the Space Sciences Lab in Berkeley to the commercial internet in Palo Alto. We attempted this last week but failed due to a flaky media converter. However, this time around the link was successfully established! Central campus will load test over the weekend before we attempt to put the SETI@home data server on this pipe (early next week, we hope). On this same day we completely reorganized our server closet. Matt will present a photo essay about the whole ordeal shortly. Basically, after many months we successfully cleaned up all long-standing problems with the online science database and moved it entirely onto our NetApp filer. This allowed us to remove eight external six-packs of drives from our science database server, now that they weren't being used anymore. Since we were doing that, we took this opportunity to clean up the whole closet, reconfigure the power distribution, untangle nests of ethernet/scsi wires, rack mount our Sun E450 servers to make extra floor space, and even vacuum out all the dust bunnies in the corners. SETI@home Technical News Reports - 2002 http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.html A Question of Bandwidth http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_052002.htm == Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com