Flwrite wrote:

Martin wrote...

Already answered!...

Where?  When?

Good question.  Lemme tell you, Jan...

More specifically, BOINC problems have been the utmost, most frequent
topic of discussion on this newsgroup for about a month.

The general consensus is that SETI@home released BOINC to the general
public although they had insufficient equipment to manage all the
data, and therefore the project has been one [almost] continual
"outage."

The worst part was for the SETI-aholics, whom took great pride in
crunching Work Units continuously -- for years, and as quickly as
possible.  Some of them un-installed and abandoned SETI-Classic,
switched to BOINC when it was "released," and then watched their
computers get cold, unable to download work units.

One poor guy in New Zealand heats his house with warm CPUs.  Well you
know, it's Winter down there, and when BOINC fell apart, the
temperature in ~misfit's~ house started to drop.  But who are you
going to complain to? He's had to play computer games just to stay
warm, tsk tsk.

LOL. That's not that far from the truth Neil, I'm getting bored with my
games though. This, my main PC, has maybe 30 minutes of work left, two other
are idle and only one has enough WU's to last the day and that's only
because the client mis-calculates the completetion time and gives it too
many WU's.

I'm seriously considering going back to SETI classic, didn't want to do
that. "My" team are all shouting at me for requesting they all switch to
BOINC, of the 50 members only 16 have managed to accrue credit.

Certainly, the engineers at SETI@home are working at top speed,
trying to get things working as fast as possible, and probably
haven't had a good nights' sleep since the "release."  At the same
time, a few thousand people were getting unrecognizable, vague error
messages on their new "clients" after the "release," and received no
guidance or advice from SETI@home -- either on this newsgroup or
their webpage -- that the problem was in Berkeley, not in our
computers.  The few fortunate people that inhabit this newsgroup
compared notes, and were able to figure out that "the trouble was on
their end," and we've been here keeping each other company since
then.

Welcome.

The few "News" items on http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/ do not
reflect the amount of members' confusion caused by the technical
problems in Berkeley. However, the latest item suggests that the
problems are beginning to wind down, and perhaps productivity will
soon begin to gain momentum: "July 21, 2004 - The log files are
currently being compressed, after thats done the project should
return to normal."

There is some dubiousity about their use of the word "Normal," since
SETI-BOINC has never seen a trouble-free period.  Achieving "normal"
would not be a good thing.  We hope their intended meaning was more
optimistic.

Well, this too will pass.

CU soon,

Very accurate summation of the BOINC situation there Neil, well done.
--
~misfit~