Posts by Scientific Frontline

Message boards : Number crunching : HELP - Consistant 0% Progress - Client Problem?

( Message 6233 )
Posted 2377 days ago by

Dear All, a new update from D@H:

1) We are in a recovery mode. In other words, we are collecting and validating results but we are not generating and distributing new jobs for the moment, while we are investigating what caused the problem yesterday.

2) Please bear with us. We do not have a full time system administrator taking care of D@H but the work is done by students. They are doing their very best but they have also classes and homework. We are dedicating the weekend on understanding the problem and fixing it.

Thanks for your several notes and support.

Michela

I'll accept that as a reasonable answer.
Academics first by all means,

Message boards : Number crunching : HELP - Consistant 0% Progress - Client Problem?

( Message 6223 )
Posted 2378 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

Hi All,

we have a disk issue. We stopped the generation of new jobs and are looking at the issue.

Sorry for the problem and thank you for the notes!

Michela

You have more then a disk issue, the project admin has a total lack of respect for its members.

Nah, at least we know they're alive. I was getting worried.

Been there and done that with them too many times. Never was worried, just annoyed.

Message boards : Number crunching : HELP - Consistant 0% Progress - Client Problem?

( Message 6220 )
Posted 2378 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

Hi All,

we have a disk issue. We stopped the generation of new jobs and are looking at the issue.

Sorry for the problem and thank you for the notes!

Michela

You have more then a disk issue, the project admin has a total lack of respect for its members.

Message boards : Number crunching : HELP - Consistant 0% Progress - Client Problem?

( Message 6200 )
Posted 2380 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

No response yet from the PM sent to Trilce Estrada :(

Does not surprise me any. Been one of the biggest flaws of this project is the lack of communication.

Message boards : Number crunching : HELP - Consistant 0% Progress - Client Problem?

( Message 6198 )
Posted 2380 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

Simplest solution / work-around.
Increase cache, get new tasks, then set no new tasks, delete 0 inf files, and keep on running until you need more and repeat the process until they get this fixed.

Message boards : Number crunching : HELP - Consistant 0% Progress - Client Problem?

( Message 5879 )
Posted 2691 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

Personally I would just like to see the notices on the main page where they belong in my opinion.
Don't use screen-savers and just about as negative towards social sites as one can get. Project news/updates belong on the project site, nowhere else.

Message boards : Number crunching : HELP - Consistant 0% Progress - Client Problem?

( Message 5869 )
Posted 2693 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

I think you are right DoubleTop, we are/will face a different problem now, there is a bug in the transitioner that keeps generating workunits even if we said we want just one. We had changed the workuint generator and other daemons around and haven't been able to keep it straight, I need to modify the validator to accept these kind of workunits, let's see if I can fix it soon

@Scientific Frontline, I'm sorry about this, and you are absolutely right, I'm seriously thinking about making a facebook group, or twitter account or something more effective than the forums, because this format is not helping much

As I am also, now lets all move forward with better understanding of both sides.
Heidi-Ann Kennedy

Message boards : Number crunching : Boycott

( Message 5868 )
Posted 2693 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

Thank you,
Heidi-Ann Kennedy

Message boards : Number crunching : HELP - Consistant 0% Progress - Client Problem?

( Message 5858 )
Posted 2693 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

During March 7-11 we had a big problem with the server ( http://docking.cis.udel.edu/about/project/news.php ), which was running out of space and therefore several workunits were sent empty. On March 11 we stopped the production, increase the server partition and resume distribution. I want to think that the problems of workunits with 0% progress are still some of those created during March 7-11, what worries me the most is that now it's been 15+ days and you are still having the problems.

According to the example posted by Ananas, the problem was indeed an old workinit (created on March 7th), but if any of you could post a link to one of those eternal workunits it would be great, specially if it was created after March 11/12 so that we can take a look into the input files, in the meantime we are trying to identify what can be wrong, and if the problem is contained to those old wu's or if it is spread

Trilce,

This is the only project I have ever truly been passionate about.
I understand issues do arise, yet a response of any kind is always imperative.
One of science as yourself knows the importance of communication, without such... there is failure.

I'm willing also to help with communicating with members, your team has to establish the connection though.

10)

Message boards : Number crunching : Boycott

( Message 5852 )
Posted 2693 days ago by

Scientific Frontline

At least one member of SETI.USA won't be participating in the boycott.

That is ok... Some people like being treated like crap.
Many from the top 2 teams will, wonder if thousands of aborted units will at least get a response.

Many may think this is being childish, but really this is just about common courtesy and respect. They still refuse to acknowledge in any form or fashion.
Ok some think this is just VR volunteering, but it is not! Many hours of actual time and effort is put into crunching. Especially you with large farms.
Even a simple canned response such as "We are aware of the issues, and sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused" would have sufficed.
This is total lack of respect!

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