Moral of story - Use something like SetiDriver and have a local cache of WUs
to process...
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Subject: SETI@home - Outage Update
PLEASE NOTE :
The following SETI@home outage report is a excerpted reposting of
information available at the 'Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop SETI@home web site
@ http://www.teamlambchop.com/ . Visit it regularly for interesting,
informative and often entertaining news, reviews and analysis of most every
matter concerning active SETI@home participants.
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Jeffrey Ottie
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February 27, 2001
How to Bring Down a Project
All you need is 1) a construction worker, and 2) a backhoe.
I am sure you are waiting for the servers to get back online to dump your
caches, and fill them back up. The Berkeley servers have been down for the
most part of the day...but they really haven't been down themselves. The
servers are probably up and running fine, but they are kind of useless when
no one can connect to them. So what happened? Well I'm not too sure
exactly what is going on, but here is the latest found on alt.sci.seti:
Well, we seem to have isolated the cause:
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS AS YET UNCONFIRMED!!!! DO NOT QUOTE!!!
At about 0330 PST (GMT -0800), a contractor (possibly working for either the
City of Berkeley or the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab or maybe even the
University) cut a fiber bundle that connects voice and data between the UC
Berkeley campus and LBL and other buildings at the top of the hill, such as
the Space Sciences Lab, home of seti@home. I wish it were something more
exciting like bombs or rebellious office computers.
Based on past experiences, this will probably require a manual splice, which
will likely take all day.
So sit back, relax, hang out at the Clinic or whatever, and give your
computer a rest.
One more thing, if you're one of those people who likes to complain about
lack of redundancy between the SETI servers and the rest of the world, be
prepared to offer free co-location at an enterprise grade facility and/or
provide all funding for said service as part of your "suggestion."
Remember: ET isn't paying for this.
:-)
Michael Sinatra
Network Services
UC Berkeley
When will things be back up? Hrmmmmmm it has been the good part of a day
since the site has been down. I don't know. I have heard one day. But Im
not sure how fast those guys can get things fixed. Manual repair of a
screwed up fiber optic bundle may take some time. I hope you all have a
good cache of work units!
As you have gathered already....I can't do the stats if I can't access their
website :/. So the next update of the stats will be dependent on when they
get their act together over there.
BTW....WTF were they doing operating a backhoe at 3:30 am????
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