Mersenne Digest Monday, January 22 2001 Volume 01 : Number 810 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:11:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Russel Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: GIMPS slowdown due to California power problems? I wonder if GIMPS throughput will be noticeably reduced due to California's power problems? Either by people shutting their pcs off or being knocked off when hit by a rolling blackout? Cheers... Russ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:56:36 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS slowdown due to California power problems? I would be more worried about the servers since they are in San Diego. Imagine the possible data corruption. > I wonder if GIMPS throughput will be noticeably reduced due to > California's power problems? Either by people shutting their pcs off or > being knocked off when hit by a rolling blackout? > > Cheers... Russ > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm > Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:19:03 +0000 From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS slowdown due to California power problems? Hopefully those responsible can reassure us that the servers are indeed running on high capacity UPS backup! A further question is what precautions the intermediate ISPs take to provide backup power for their leased line connections. Major hosting ISPs typically have enormous power backup facilities for their main systems, with diesel generators that can last days, but do they protect the routers for smaller leased lines such as the one which connects the GIMPS server in San Diego? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would be more worried about the servers since they are in San > Diego. Imagine the possible data corruption. > > > I wonder if GIMPS throughput will be noticeably reduced due to > > California's power problems? Either by people shutting their pcs off or > > being knocked off when hit by a rolling blackout? Yours, ======= Gareth Randall ======= _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:04:04 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS slowdown due to California power problems? - --part1_51.671c1a4.279dde24_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I live in Southern California, and no blackouts have come out, yet. Everyone's been reporting that the main problem is in Northern California, San Francisco especially. San Diego Area has a good amount of power plants. Still, the people in California should, for the sake of fellow Californians, turn off their computers at 6pm, and turn them on at night shortly after the main usage time is over, 10pm. That is peak usage time, and we really don't want to use electricity at that time. That's also when rolling blackouts are issued. This summer, rolling blackouts could begin at the 6am - 8am period, a smaller spike that occurs. - --part1_51.671c1a4.279dde24_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#008080" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">I live in Southern California, and no blackouts have come out, yet. <BR>Everyone's been reporting that the main problem is in Northern California, <BR>San Francisco especially. San Diego Area has a good amount of power plants. <BR>Still, the people in California should, for the sake of fellow Californians, <BR>turn off their computers at 6pm, and turn them on at night shortly after the <BR>main usage time is over, 10pm. That is peak usage time, and we really don't <BR>want to use electricity at that time. That's also when rolling blackouts are <BR>issued. This summer, rolling blackouts could begin at the 6am - 8am period, <BR>a smaller spike that occurs.</FONT></HTML> - --part1_51.671c1a4.279dde24_boundary-- _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ End of Mersenne Digest V1 #810 ******************************
