TheSkyNet news thread - 17/10/11

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After last weeks hardware issues at mission control I'll like to start by saying many thanks to all the tech's that when in at the weekend
and got it sorted. Cookies for you all. As we know you read/hear about this thread ;)

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Another great week for the team - Stomping up 4 places on the leaderboard.
Is the dizzy heights of page one (top 15) possable - watch this space :cool:

A new coloumn for you all this week - gain/loss of average ppd from last week
Slacker have been painted RED - Oh the shame :p
An cool cucumbers are green :cool:

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The return of an old graph. but with rainbow colours - red is now, violet is last monday both are labled
Smaller bar, higher your global position

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That took a whole lot longer that it was surposed to.
Sorry it wasn't ready at lunchtime

News 3.1
Table revised to show all new members
Missing 'Global Position' graph added

News 3.2
Revised both top graphs - colour / type
 
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Welcome back to our news thread Tim - always good to have your input.
What you've said above make sense - and matchs what we've found in practice.

It's a shame that the partially complete data packaged isn't 'saved' for completion on restart,
But I can understand why, based on the 'background client' ethos

Can I ask how long does it take to process a single packet of data on say a SB system.
Or any tested system for that matter :)
My guess is it's well under a hour, but I haven't sat and watched my network traffic with a stopwatch - well not yet anyway (Halz might have ;))
 
From the main forums, regarding the stall in points every now and again

Hi All,

Credit problems noted and the problem is caused by server instability - as suspected. I am keeping the system running manually at present while we trace the problem (which could even be the new hardware the DB was moved to last week). There may be still a couple hours of stagnation if I don't get to the server when broken e.g. while asleep. But it should be running fine now.

In the meantime please bear with us - if you're not getting credits then at least no-one else is, and the processing code is unaffected (the results are coming back just fine).

Thanks again

Rhys
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Your on the team page and gaining points - I've no active work at the minute either.
For more clients - log into the website, and press the green tick for extra brower based clients.
You can have one per core open (one less if running the background client)
 
Spent most of the morning tweeking the spreadsheet and set up the graphs in advance.
Mainly as I've a favour to ask - would anyone like to do the news this week?
I'll be in spain for a week and can't guarentee I'll have computer access every day.

It involves a manuel stats grap off TheSkyNet 'ladder' tab
(as the team one updates less frequently and Biffa and DavidCopeman's stats are not recorded correctly)
Using firefox it's easier as the usernames are remembered - but it still 19 look ups.
With both the position and points score added to the spreadsheet.
Every thing is auto from then on except the high/low ppd value - that done by hand
I'm sure an excel macro could do it - might read up on it this week.

Oh and MarineIguana - looks like you forgot to switch it on again ;)

And I'm taking loudbob, dekez, Biffa and LavaMoney off the graphs this week as they are all inactive currently :(
 
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is that 48 cores? or 24 core all hyperthreaded?
And that some serious point out put - you're going to love the graphs this week :D

Thankd halz - I'll e-mail you the database on friday.
You do have excel2000 or newer I hope ;)
 
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They are having issues with the servers atm - it is beta afterall.
One of the tech keeps needing to wake it up - which is not so quick when he is asleep himself :(

just started my 4 clients and they are gaining points - not anymore they're not :(
 
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tbh BaBa It's not ready for Hydra atm - the whole DC community have jumped on this project I bit to early.
In some part due to threads like this :o
Babysitting and zero credit crunching are currently the normal for at least a week while the servers are sorted out on a shoestring budget.
 
Post from the skynet team leader

Hi all,
thanks very much for the support and also highlighting your concerns, this shows us that you are keen for this project to succeed and we appreciate you steering us in the right direction and keeping us focused on the important issues you're experiencing. As some of you have suggested everyone involved with theSkyNet is working very hard to take care of these issues and keep data (and credits) flowing at a consistent rate. We want you to have a good expereince with theSkyNet and once we attain stability we'll begin looking to grow the project and working towrds addiitonal functionality for the user. Right now we're doing neither as we focus on fixing resolving the issues our current user base has.

Getting this type of project up and going is new territory for us and as such we are learning lessons as we go. The important thing is that the system works, despite some issues here and there, and we (you!) have been processing radio astronomy data which has allowed our scientists to test the system, reine the system, demonstrate that the data products produced are scientifically credible and begin processing data that will ultimately contribute to the science being undertaken by this organisation. So big pats on the back all round for theSkyNet community are in order, thank you.

We'll endeavour to announce any major outages due to backend modifications but for the next few days you may experience some temporary halts in the data flow as we try and identify a particular 'glitch in the matrix' and resolve. Once this has been done we should see consistent uninterupted flow of data (and credits) to keep your machines busy, after all we don't want them getting bored do we! We had a meeting yesterday with everyone working on the project, at the meeting all issues were discussed across the front and backends of the system and priorities set. We expect to see all major issues and core front end functionality (pause button, alliance issues etc.) taken care of within the next 2 of weeks with less major issues and functionality added in the following 2 weeks, idealy giving us complete stability within 4 weeks.

Thanks for your support, contribution and continued patience, we do appreciate it.
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