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Does anyone know what happened to Cosmo? It went down Friday night and has been down since. Even their web site is down, so I can't go there for any info..... 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: Re: Cosmology @ Home |
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| mohrorless wrote: | | Does anyone know what happened to Cosmo? It went down Friday night and has been down since. Even their web site is down, so I can't go there for any info..... |
From BAM (posted Monday Nov 13):
The downtime is due to a sudden motherboard failure. We purchased a replacement server and were hoping to be operational last night. There has been an additional delay due to driver problems during the OS installation on the new server. Scott has been working to resolve this full time. We hope to be up and running later today.
At this point we do not seem to have had any data loss, since we used a redundant filesystem, in addition to daily backups. Once our old server is fixed, it will be added as secondary server. Then we'll have a fully redundant system, which should continue to work even if we have a similar hardware failure as the one which caused this downtime.
This has been our first extended downtime since the beginning of the project and we intend to make it our last.
Thank you for your patience and continued support -
Ben Wandelt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Thanks OM!
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, thanks. I was as lost as mohrorless.
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| belenus wrote: | | Yes, thanks. I was as lost as mohrorless. |
Was that you I heard stomping around the blind with me?
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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I had just resolved to come here to ask the same question as Sir Mohrorless. All my shrubbers ran out of work yesterday so I went back to
Einstein and found that they still error out after about 15 hours of wasted shrubbing. I know I KNOW... I should have had 10 days of work cached but there have been no prior problems,.... You know the drill.
Oh well.... I hear a "Giant Sucking Sound" that is my RAC going down the tubes. So much for 1 million by February. 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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try POEM or yoyo ot tanpaku....
or if you're into space related prjects, help out a new project Milkyway@home
| Quote: | | Milkyway@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer. |
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| mohrorless wrote: | | belenus wrote: | | Yes, thanks. I was as lost as mohrorless. |
Was that you I heard stomping around the blind with me? |
I'm afraid it was me. Never imagined you were the other one. 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| KWSN - Sir Brian C....... wrote: |
or if you're into space related prjects, help out a new project Milkyway@home
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Done
But I still prefer Snickers......
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11/14/07 @ 21:55 UTC - Website is back up, but project is still down
Our server was pretty much destroyed on Friday night, and we couldn't get any new hardware until Monday. I've spent every waking hour not in class with the new server to get it up and running, but sorry it took so long anyway.
I'll be here until I can get the project daemons up and running as well.
Look for more announcements in the near future.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Again!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:44 am Post subject: |
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It's back up and running again!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:46 am Post subject: |
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Damn boy.... you were here 4 min after it came up.
Ain't you got a life?
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| Sir Papa Smurph wrote: | Damn boy.... you were here 4 min after it came up.
Ain't you got a life? |
I happend by the PC, sat down to look at a few things, checked that one and posted, pure luck.
and No I do NOT have a life 
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Yeah well, I was here 6 min after it came up, for whatever that's worth. 
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I suppose that it makes us both lonely kNIghts....
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Better try to get work, it's acting up again.
Says " Error on File upload, Server is out of Disk Space "
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| Sir Papa Smurph wrote: | Better try to get work, it's acting up again.
Says " Error on File upload, Server is out of Disk Space " |
Thanks for the heads up. I just checked and I have 6 attempting to go up now....
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:49 am Post subject: |
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Just found this on the DC-Vault forum:
Cosmology@Home Downtime - Message from the admin
The project has been down over the weekend and Ben, the admin, had this to say over at free-dc: http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12692
We had a sudden unforeseen hardware failure Friday night - we have been working to get the server back up and running. Since it is the week-end it is harder to get replacement parts, so the system may continue to be down for of a couple of days before things will be back on track.
It would be great if you could get a message to our users about this - we were trying to think of a way, but I could not even post on my webpage because it is running on the same server that is hosting cosmology@home.
All the best,
Ben
More from Ben:
Dear Terry -
That's very kind of you. I have forwarded your message to Scott Kruger, who has been tracking down exactly what the issue is. It appears to be a motherboard failure. Cosmology@home is running on a dual Opteron platform.
It does not appear to be a hard drive problem. Even if it had been , we store all our programs and data on that server completely redundantly, plus we backed up daily so all the scientific results of cosmology@home so far are protected. If you do have a way of communicating with at least some of our users, this would also be a good message to get out there.
All the best,
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Maybe we could change Rule #4 to read
Thou shalt not exceed an RAC of 2000 on any single project. Thought should spread the load equally.....
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