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Pooh Bear 27
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 Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject: Tech News @ SETI |
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Copied from Technical News page @ SETI.
July 26, 2006 - 23:00 UTC
Late last week a power fault crashed our science database. One of the RAID mirrors failed, but ultimately we were able to got all the failed drives re-synced and back online without too much trouble.
Nevertheless, we are anxious to get a new science database server, both for speed and reliability. Sun recently donated a Thumper (X4500) system to us to beta test and potentially use as a database server. We are in the process of configuring this system, which has two dual-core opterons, 8 GB of RAM, and is half full with 24 500GB SATA drives (12 TB total). The science database itself only needs about 1 TB - the remaining space may be used for temporary tape image storage, as the new data recorder (science newsletter coming soon) records up to 300GB a day. |
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Thanks for the update Pooh Bear 27. New free server eh? Very good.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:27 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, especially when the x4500 costs $33,000! It is quite the machine. Attention Sun: I would gladly be willing to "beta test" anything you send me  |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| MacG wrote: | | Yeah, especially when the x4500 costs $33,000! It is quite the machine. Attention Sun: I would gladly be willing to "beta test" anything you send me |
It was nice of them to give this to SETI. It's quite expensive, but for a huge company like Sun, it won't hurt their pocket. Uh, I just hope it's stable. 
Hehehe... Sun: Dear MacG, Thank you for taking interest in our wonderful server products. To show you our appreciation, we would like to give you one of our Sun Fire E6900 servers for free.  
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KWSN - Sir Brian C.......
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Hehehe... Sun: Dear MacG, Thank you for taking interest in our wonderful server products. To show you our appreciation, we would like to give you one of our Sun Fire E6900 servers for free.
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I'd love to know what we're boing to be doing with those 15k's , plus our dev and test enviroments are going to be upgraed from 480's to the new 490 sparc4 dually's.
Big Kudos to sun here, if you take a look at the big projects they all seem to run Sun kit at least for their db's..... It's nice to see Sun step up to acknowledge that, and help out the biggest and nost underfunded DC project out there...............
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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I'm surprised to hear that Setiathome is the most uderfunded boinc project Sir Brian. I always thought that it had much more funding than the other boinc projects.
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Seti is definately underfunded, the main reasons that there' been so many outages is that theserver hardware they use is old and so fails regually, which is why it's nice to see sun step up with new kit.
Most of the other projects Folding, rosetta, einstein etc are university led researh programs. whereas Seti after loosing its government funding has been a self funding project
here's a letter that was distributed earlier this yer tht explains the funding issues
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donor_letter.php
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I see. Thanks for pointing that out. I always figured that SETI was getting enough university funding to keep the project going. Berkeley University should provide the SETI@home project with more funds in my opinion. I mean, they would get some credit if a signal was found.
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