1) Message boards : Number crunching : Planned outage for BOS and ESEA (Message 16193)
Posted 25 Jan 2007 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
I've spent the last few days checking everything was working correctly, and it seems so. This is what happened Sunday:

Around 10 am local time, the database drive stalled once again, and I shut down the system, knowing I was going to correct things later.

Around 3 pm local time, I had moved everything to my work area, and wanted to start up to test everything would work fine when attempting to do the drive switch. But now the database drive box didn't start at all - no fan, no light, nothing. The other one seemed to start as usual. I thought it might be the power supply, so I switch to the other power supply - this time the box started, but I really didn't like the sound, so I turned it off quickly. The other box didn't like the power supply from the database drive box.

So, now I had two drives that I didn't know if I could even get working. Anyway, with two drives to switch and only two drives to replace them, I could wave goodbye to my RAID plans. The only hope I had was that it was the external boxes that were failing, not the hard drives themselves. And it turned out to be just that. So after I had copied the database drive successfully, I made the sites available again while copying the other drives - before moving things back where they belong.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Planned outage for BOS and ESEA (Message 16155)
Posted 19 Jan 2007 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
For those who haven't read the BOS RSS feed, the BOS message boards or the ESEA message boards, here some info:

The hard drive containing the databases has been giving trouble these last few days. It is close to give up. I have two hard drives which was planned to be used as a replacement for the boot/system drive, but this is more important right now. So this weekend I will spend some time replacing the database drive. I will try to build a RAID with these two new hard drives, but this may take some time, as it is the first RAID I've ever made. Keeping all data/programs completely intact during the process is an extra task, and may make it take a bit longer, as I don't have a third clean hard drive to save things on. But I'll do my best to do this as fast as possible. If all things go wrong I have back-ups.

So, just so you know, the BOS site and services and the ESEA site will be down for a while this weekend.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : SOME greedy users (Message 16067)
Posted 6 Jan 2007 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
ha, I might have looked greedy :D By accident, due to changes in cache size, suspending/resuming projects, and an unfortunate timing of scheduler requesting work, I ended up with a huge bunch of wu's that I new I wouldn't be able to finish in time - and if I tried other wu's wouldn't finish in time. So I had to abort a large amount of them. That would make others able to grab some - only side effect would be that they might have to wait for a re-issue
4) Message boards : Number crunching : /stats/ empty (Message 15970)
Posted 2 Jan 2007 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
Any idea on what the URL will change to once the project has moved to Queen Mary?


It won't change

edit: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/forum_thread.php?id=2381&nowrap=true#15877
5) Message boards : Team invites : ESEA (Earth Space Exploration Agency) (Message 13120)
Posted 23 Mar 2006 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
ESEA (Earth Space Exploration Agency) is looking for more Agency Scientists.

It is obvious that research is abundant, and our supercomputer can't keep up with the current amount of processors. So, the Agency is looking for more staff and the processors that come with this additional staff.

Currently the supercomputer is operating in the mid 40 GFlop range, and we need at least 100 for the time being.

There are an unlimited amount of positions vacant - just plug-in your processors.

6) Message boards : Team invites : ESEA (Earth Space Exploration Agency) (Message 11664)
Posted 15 Dec 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
New sig, new stats, more projects - and more to come - try clicking on the sig, click Join, then add lhc to your project list, then click Join right by lhc at the project list - then you're with a great team ;)
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc farms. (Message 11650)
Posted 12 Dec 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
Oh my... My farm has never grown bigger than two *sad* For a short while the two consisted of an AMD 486sx 40MHz and an Intel P100 *lol* That was back in end 1999 to beginning of 2000. And then I when back to one again - a P233 first, then an Athlon 1600+. The Athlon is still going, although only on about 25% of the time. So you could say my farm currently consist of 1.25 PC's *lol* - the 1 is my Athlon 3200+

I do have plans for when I get more space and money.

8) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Welcome New LHC@Home Crunchers (Message 8619)
Posted 16 Jul 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
Welcome all :) I know many have been waiting patiently and anxiously to be part of this project - personally I've been looking forward to this for a while as I know some of you from other projects and like to see even new ones around. That's good for this project, and good for BOINC as a whole :)

So, welcome and happy crunching :)

9) Message boards : Team invites : Looking for a team? (Message 8617)
Posted 16 Jul 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
And ESEA is expanding in every way - now also available on SZTAKI Desktop Grid and Message@home

10) Message boards : Team invites : Looking for a team? (Message 8267)
Posted 2 Jul 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
<p>

Join here -
Visit our website</p>
<p>(also available on Seti@home, Predictor@home, climateprediction.net, Einstein@home,
BURP and Orbit@home)</p>
11) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINCnotifier update? (Message 7836)
Posted 26 May 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
I read somewhere else that he has trouble with his connectivety - but is working on it

12) Message boards : Cafe LHC : 100 K Milestone (Message 7512)
Posted 8 May 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
someday I'll get my secondary host up to full speed - maybe that'll close the gap to you guys :D

13) Message boards : Team invites : ESEA (Earth Space Exploration Agency) (Message 7511)
Posted 8 May 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
bump ;)

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Daily quota exceeded (Message 7451)
Posted 5 May 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
> They should but I'm not sure if they actually work that way. Can anybody
> confirm..? In addition, estimates are only good as long as a BOINC CC is doing
> work 100% of time. If the BOINC client is shut down, there is no much that can
> be done.

I suspected as much with the estimates. In the end though I guess the uptime percentage messurements for each host are ment to take this into consideration, at least to further make sure clients don't get more work than they can handle in time.

15) Message boards : Number crunching : Daily quota exceeded (Message 7428)
Posted 4 May 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
Markku:

"Increasing quota is problematic in the sense that some older machines can then download too much work at once (and possibly never finish it)"

Isn't deadlines, benchmarks and estimated cpu time used to prevent this?

16) Message boards : Number crunching : constant HD activity? (Message 7305)
Posted 28 Apr 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
I'm not seeing this (boinc 4.32, sixtrack 4.67, MQonly-wu's)

17) Message boards : Number crunching : How about a "Waiting List"? (Message 7304)
Posted 28 Apr 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
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oh, btw, I totally agree with Paul that there are several potential benefits with a waiting list.

18) Message boards : Number crunching : How about a "Waiting List"? (Message 7303)
Posted 28 Apr 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
> Pronounced to rhyme with "Sophie"? :)

Yes, excactly :D

19) Message boards : Number crunching : How about a "Waiting List"? (Message 7261)
Posted 27 Apr 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
sysfried:

If they end up with a list of 20k people, noone says they HAVE to let all 20k in the minute they want/need more participants ;) It could work just like a FIFO buffer - first in first out, just in this case it would be more like FOFI - first On the waiting list first In the project ;)

20) Message boards : Number crunching : Hurry up! (Message 7219)
Posted 26 Apr 2005 by Profile Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Post:
good thing I checked this thread - whn I came home this evening I saw a bunch of these download errors - and wondered if my internet connection had been severed for a while after starting downloading. No need to worry then :)



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