Why No Work?

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Glenn Rogers Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 165 Credit: 364,966 RAC: 0	Message 31188 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 14:43:04 UTC Last modified: 19 Sep 2009, 14:56:40 UTC Has any one any Idea why there is no work flowing at the moment?? C'mon Travis get it happening mate....Had no work since 1930 my time and there are 3 wu's waiting for validation...It would appear that the validator is not running and no tasks to send very odd... ID: 31188 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

KWSN imcrazynow Send message Joined: 22 Nov 08 Posts: 136 Credit: 319,414,799 RAC: 0	Message 31189 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 15:01:58 UTC It's not very odd at all. We seem to go through this every weekend anymore. As soon as they turn off the lights and leave for the weekend the server decides to puke. 4870 GPU 4870 GPU ID: 31189 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Glenn Rogers Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 165 Credit: 364,966 RAC: 0	Message 31190 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 15:05:16 UTC - in response to Message 31189. Last modified: 19 Sep 2009, 15:11:51 UTC Hahaha.. Yep it sure does, and being a university theres no one about to fix it when it falls over..So I'm guessing here that every one's RAC will drop like a stone till someone gets there on Monday to sort it out..Going to be some very annoyed crunchers about till then I expect ID: 31190 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bruce Send message Joined: 28 Apr 08 Posts: 1415 Credit: 2,716,428 RAC: 0	Message 31193 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 16:15:03 UTC Looks like something is happening I just got a full cache of MW WUs!! OK away we go again!!!Thanks to whoever fixed it up!!! ;-p ID: 31193 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Glenn Rogers Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 165 Credit: 364,966 RAC: 0	Message 31194 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 16:24:23 UTC - in response to Message 31193. Last modified: 19 Sep 2009, 16:25:41 UTC yep looks like it just got topped up as well...We shall see how long before it needs a kicking again :D Thanks to who ever fixed it ID: 31194 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

autarkis Send message Joined: 29 Aug 09 Posts: 15 Credit: 174,033,254 RAC: 0	Message 31195 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 16:32:27 UTC Looks like it was just temporary, out of work again... ID: 31195 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Glenn Rogers Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 165 Credit: 364,966 RAC: 0	Message 31196 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 16:34:36 UTC - in response to Message 31195. Last modified: 19 Sep 2009, 16:35:31 UTC Hmmm looks like your right.. the validator is down again :(( Some one give it a kick :D ID: 31196 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

autarkis Send message Joined: 29 Aug 09 Posts: 15 Credit: 174,033,254 RAC: 0	Message 31197 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 16:37:40 UTC Do all the processors have to run on the same box? Wonder if this is a capacity issue. As more and more GPU users are coming on... ID: 31197 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Glenn Rogers Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 165 Credit: 364,966 RAC: 0	Message 31198 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 16:41:45 UTC - in response to Message 31197. Last modified: 19 Sep 2009, 16:47:46 UTC We had this problem a few months ago as there is only the one box for the server, it could be it is bogged down trying to feed all the requests. Oh well 1245am sunday here goin to bed see how things are in the morning ID: 31198 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Cori Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 647 Credit: 27,592,547 RAC: 0	Message 31199 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 17:16:06 UTC Pretty pleeeeaaaase! :-D Lovely greetings, Cori ID: 31199 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Misfit Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 915 Credit: 1,503,319 RAC: 0	Message 31208 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 19:24:39 UTC Looks like Cosmo gets to be the weekend warrior. me@rescam.org ID: 31208 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Emanuel Send message Joined: 18 Nov 07 Posts: 280 Credit: 2,442,757 RAC: 0	Message 31209 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 19:50:28 UTC Well, at least we can confirm one thing: the website's sluggishness was -definitely- due to heavy server load. MW -really- needs to get some redundancy going in the server department. How are their donations going? ID: 31209 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

SpeedMax Send message Joined: 7 Jul 09 Posts: 16 Credit: 380,240,108 RAC: 0	Message 31211 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 21:06:40 UTC - in response to Message 31208. So,will we be dry till monday? I placed some CUDA cards back inside a couple of PCs! max ID: 31211 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

WimTea Send message Joined: 16 Nov 07 Posts: 23 Credit: 4,774,710 RAC: 0	Message 31212 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 21:09:50 UTC Looks like the validator needs to be kicked again. Once that happens WUs will flow again aplenty (I hope). ID: 31212 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0	Message 31214 - Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 23:51:32 UTC - in response to Message 31211. So,will we be dry till monday? I placed some CUDA cards back inside a couple of PCs! Collatz or one of the other GPU possible projects. Be nice share the wealth ... ID: 31214 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Glenn Rogers Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 165 Credit: 364,966 RAC: 0	Message 31227 - Posted: 20 Sep 2009, 4:16:40 UTC Last modified: 20 Sep 2009, 4:24:17 UTC Looks like the validator is up again but has nothing to send?? Spoke to soon it's down again ID: 31227 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Chris S Send message Joined: 20 Sep 08 Posts: 1391 Credit: 203,563,566 RAC: 0	Message 31237 - Posted: 20 Sep 2009, 8:48:52 UTC Last modified: 20 Sep 2009, 8:49:37 UTC Paul is correct, try Collatz, they have work and both CUDA and ATI apps. http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/index.php ID: 31237 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Glenn Rogers Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 165 Credit: 364,966 RAC: 0	Message 31238 - Posted: 20 Sep 2009, 9:14:00 UTC - in response to Message 31237. Last modified: 20 Sep 2009, 9:15:34 UTC Doing some Rosetta till they get the problem here sorted as I dont have a compatible GPU.. I just got 3 wu's not a full cache, so it's an intermitant shortage ID: 31238 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TheHarperdragon Send message Joined: 22 Feb 09 Posts: 9 Credit: 5,678,007 RAC: 0	Message 31239 - Posted: 20 Sep 2009, 10:56:54 UTC one of the TA's must be turning off the wrong switch when they leave for the weekend ........... ID: 31239 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Ocean Archer Send message Joined: 6 Sep 09 Posts: 3 Credit: 81,863 RAC: 0	Message 31240 - Posted: 20 Sep 2009, 11:51:39 UTC Cori -- Cute pleading there ... ID: 31240 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote