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10/11/2010 2:04 PM

Kinguni

Joined: 7/7/2006

Posts: 2508

Powerdown on Oct 11 (Canada)

http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsima...

We had again a power failure on the boinc server. This time the database stayd alive, but the server filesystem crashed dramatically. Although we use a journalling filesystem, the complete upload folder (containing all successfully uploaded but not yet validated results) got lost. As this area is highly dynamic, we did not include it into our daily backup plan so that we now cannot restore these results. As a workaround, we will grant these vanished results the same credits that are granted after validation of the workunits to the correct results. We are very sorry about this trouble. As a consequence, we will consider shutting down this project in 2 weeks and moving it to another, more safe hardware environment as soon as possible.

Nice to see they are responsive! Solid work for a couple of months already too.

10/21/2010 9:45 AM

skildude

Joined: 2/24/2007

Posts: 485

Re: Powerdown on Oct 11 (United States)

heh at least they have servers that gracefullly shutdown. Seti seems to have servers that are in their deaththrows

Truth is after all a moving target Hairs to split, and pieces that don't fit How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit - Getty Lee

11/3/2010 1:59 AM

Kinguni

Joined: 7/7/2006

Posts: 2508

BOINCSIMAP will move to a new location onto new hardware (Canada)

http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsima...

Quote:
Due to the move of parts of the BOINCSIMAP crew to Vienna in 2010, this project is now a joint project of the Technical University Munich and the University of Vienna.

The recent series of power faults, combined with defects of the UPS devices in our Munich facilities, has motivated us to move BOINCSIMAP now immediately to new hardware at the University of Vienna. This hardware is brand new and became available last week. We will now setup the new boinc servers (BOINC server, download-/upload server and database server) and run a first small test in December 2010. If everything works fine, the first full run of the new servers will start around January 7, 2011 after the new year holidays. We expect then 1..2 months of continuous work, as there are the new proteins of three months plus a couple of new metagenomes.

There will be a new URL for the project, but we will also keep the current URL operational for a longer period.

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