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Message 46915 - Posted: 30 Aug 2013, 0:57:33 UTC

I can't believe my eyes, 14,000 new work units. Feast or famine, I guess we'll be busy for a while.
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Message 46916 - Posted: 30 Aug 2013, 5:34:35 UTC - in response to Message 46915.  

Up to 21,000+ now, just waiting for some regional models for my netbook now.
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Message 46917 - Posted: 31 Aug 2013, 10:16:08 UTC

Now about 49,000.
Could give us all a clue about priorities.
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Message 46918 - Posted: 31 Aug 2013, 10:56:46 UTC

Way back there was discussion about whether to have credit or not IIRC, perhaps a decision has been made by somebody who hasn't informed others?

The problem is that it's going to be a pain managing multiple projects. I run six as they all drop in and out of work and my systems are on 24/7 for work anyway.

Very frustrating for Crunch Heads who tend to have good systems I'd imagine.
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Message 46920 - Posted: 31 Aug 2013, 12:03:15 UTC

Basically have to dedicate machines exclusively to CPDN.

They should rewrite the points scripts from scratch. We know everything else is working, so we're talking about access, adding and insertion. I know this is easier said than done, but no one at Oxford is capable of doing this? How long is the drive from Cambridge?
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Message 46921 - Posted: 31 Aug 2013, 23:25:42 UTC - in response to Message 46920.  
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Look on the bright side. One day, hundreds of years hence, our distant descendants will get a surprise present from the past - a whole bunch of credits :-)


Just kidding. Sooner or later all the credits will suddenly appear, the admins are still looking at it when they can (between firefighting).
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Message 46924 - Posted: 1 Sep 2013, 7:32:33 UTC - in response to Message 46920.  

Don't know about by car but it is about 3 hours on the coach from Cambridge to Oxford.
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Message 46932 - Posted: 1 Sep 2013, 15:22:06 UTC - in response to Message 46924.  

Don't know about by car but it is about 3 hours on the coach from Cambridge to Oxford.


And only one or two milliseconds by the enormous bandwidth on the ARPAnet :/)
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Message 46938 - Posted: 2 Sep 2013, 6:46:06 UTC - in response to Message 46921.  

Just kidding. Sooner or later all the credits will suddenly appear, the admins are still looking at it when they can (between firefighting).


What's that mean? Are they here in Tuolumne County?
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Message 46939 - Posted: 2 Sep 2013, 7:40:33 UTC - in response to Message 46938.  

"firefighting" = fixing the servers and programs every time users break something.


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Message 46941 - Posted: 2 Sep 2013, 7:56:06 UTC - in response to Message 46939.  

Yeah exactly, running from crisis to crisis with little time to do anything else.

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Message 46943 - Posted: 2 Sep 2013, 8:53:57 UTC

Oh, sorry, I thought you meant this, I'm 4 miles from it. Lost my power and I'm running on my generator now.

http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/index.php
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Message 46944 - Posted: 2 Sep 2013, 10:22:01 UTC - in response to Message 46943.  

Oh, sorry, I thought you meant this, I'm 4 miles from it. Lost my power and I'm running on my generator now.

http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/index.php


Hope they get it under control soon, fires are pretty scary. When I was in Australia one got to about 1/2 a mile away, we ran for the hills...


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Message 46945 - Posted: 2 Sep 2013, 13:29:08 UTC - in response to Message 46939.  

"firefighting" = fixing the servers and programs every time users break something.
Couldn't it have been left at: "firefighting = fixing the servers and programs", period? By users do you mean volunteers or researchers? And if the system is so fragile that volunteers and/or researchers break things is that their fault?
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Message 46946 - Posted: 2 Sep 2013, 14:08:05 UTC

belfry:

les was making a "tongue in cheek" observation of the situation...it is the combination of machines/OSs/networks/jobs running on both ends (servers and crunchers) that discover obscure hairballs that choke things up and require lots of troubleshooting...he was not really blaming us volunteer crunchers...

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Message 46947 - Posted: 2 Sep 2013, 15:31:29 UTC


I have asked the admins about the credit situation & they're still trying to figure out where the problem is. The CPDN credit system is weird & complex internally.


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Message 46979 - Posted: 6 Sep 2013, 13:58:45 UTC

Looking at the server status page, it seems like the drop in the number of crunchers mean that new tasks are only being taken when old ones finish. My dilema, to add hadcm3n type units back for my netbook or not? It seems like a long time since there were any regional models other than the odd re-issue.
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