Major server upgrade!

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Toni Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 9 Dec 08 Posts: 1006 Credit: 5,068,599 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45290 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 10:48:09 UTC
	Dear cruchers! the GPUGRID server you know and (I guess?) love has done a huge service to science. Thanks to your support, the experiments we have being running grew in size and scope... AND we have enough ideas for the future to keep this trend. So, we decided to significantly upgrade the capabilities of our server - and a new is almost in place. Likely next Monday, we'll stop the server for some hours, then perform the transition. We now need your patience, because the switch-over will require some down time (and hiccups, possibly). But we are definitely looking forwards for the new expanded experimental capacity! We'll keep you informed!
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Betting Slip Send message Joined: 5 Jan 09 Posts: 670 Credit: 2,498,095,550 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45291 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 11:21:33 UTC - in response to Message 45290.
	Thank you Toni, Sounds like good news and since you think its worth the investment it makes me more confident that the work and my contribution to it is worthwhile. Downtime and teething problems are to be expected in this case.
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kain Send message Joined: 3 Sep 14 Posts: 152 Credit: 901,723,769 RAC: 676,249 Level Scientific publications	Message 45292 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 11:38:19 UTC
	Could you give us the old and the news specs?
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John C MacAlister Send message Joined: 17 Feb 13 Posts: 181 Credit: 144,871,276 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45293 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 12:13:51 UTC
	Thanks, Toni. Bring on the new beast.... ____________ John
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nanoprobe Send message Joined: 26 Feb 12 Posts: 184 Credit: 222,376,233 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45294 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 13:51:49 UTC Last modified: 17 Nov 2016 \| 13:54:33 UTC
	Good news. My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational.
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WPrion Send message Joined: 30 Apr 13 Posts: 99 Credit: 3,407,547,860 RAC: 5,084,949 Level Scientific publications	Message 45295 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 14:12:38 UTC - in response to Message 45294. Last modified: 17 Nov 2016 \| 14:13:52 UTC
	"My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational." +100
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PappaLitto Send message Joined: 21 Mar 16 Posts: 513 Credit: 4,673,458,277 RAC: 24,251 Level Scientific publications	Message 45298 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 14:56:42 UTC - in response to Message 45295. Last modified: 17 Nov 2016 \| 14:57:37 UTC
	"My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational." +100 +1000000
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Toni Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 9 Dec 08 Posts: 1006 Credit: 5,068,599 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45301 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 15:55:34 UTC - in response to Message 45298.
	Yes, our commitment is steady. The computing power you are donating provides a scientific tool whose importance can not be overstated. The most important upgrade is the disks - storage space was somewhat limiting, in the sense that we had to pay attention to not having too many experiments running at the same time. (And note that the server only works as a temporary buffer!)
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[VENETO] boboviz Send message Joined: 10 Sep 10 Posts: 160 Credit: 388,132 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45302 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 17:22:46 UTC
	It's "only" a hw upgrade or there is also some sw updates (for example boinc server libraries)??
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Jozef J Send message Joined: 7 Jun 12 Posts: 112 Credit: 1,140,895,172 RAC: 391 Level Scientific publications	Message 45305 - Posted: 17 Nov 2016 \| 19:35:21 UTC - in response to Message 45298.
	"My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational." +100 +1000000 +10*291 :-)
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Maurice Goulois Send message Joined: 22 Feb 09 Posts: 10 Credit: 103,904,673 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45309 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 2:21:46 UTC Last modified: 18 Nov 2016 \| 2:22:59 UTC
	Very good news, hoping it goes well :)
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Mark West Send message Joined: 7 Oct 12 Posts: 5 Credit: 416,078,317 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45310 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 2:54:05 UTC
	Good news for sure! I look forward to crunching even more work units. I might even bring a second GPU on line to celebrate.
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Patrick Massey Send message Joined: 27 Dec 11 Posts: 1 Credit: 42,164,562 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45311 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 5:29:30 UTC
	Congrats guys! This is good news for both us (the users) and your team[s] as well! And yes, specs would be most interesting to see (they don't want to tell us it's actually being hosted on an old HP-UX box with a PA-RISC CPU, or maybe an IBM AS/400...). ____________ "Apollo was astonished, Dionysus thought me mad..."
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Michael H.W. Weber Send message Joined: 9 Feb 16 Posts: 73 Credit: 656,229,684 RAC: 130,815 Level Scientific publications	Message 45313 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 9:17:35 UTC
	To my point of view you do not have a major problem with the storage devices but rather with bandwidth. You can't imagine how slow data transfer from your server is compared to other DC projects and how often it just breaks down and causes a reduction in project productivity. Michael. ____________ President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization.
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Francois Normandin Send message Joined: 8 Mar 11 Posts: 71 Credit: 654,432,613 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45314 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 10:40:42 UTC Last modified: 18 Nov 2016 \| 10:43:59 UTC
	Congrats! :)
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Francois Normandin Send message Joined: 8 Mar 11 Posts: 71 Credit: 654,432,613 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45315 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 10:44:16 UTC - in response to Message 45305.
	+googolplex :)
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Francois Normandin Send message Joined: 8 Mar 11 Posts: 71 Credit: 654,432,613 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45316 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 11:04:20 UTC - in response to Message 45305.
	"My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational." +100 +1000000 +10*291 :-) +googolplex :D
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PappaLitto Send message Joined: 21 Mar 16 Posts: 513 Credit: 4,673,458,277 RAC: 24,251 Level Scientific publications	Message 45317 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 12:23:31 UTC
	What is your internet connnection speed? Because ultimately no matter how fast your internal network is, the bandwidth won't increase unless you have faster internet.
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Michael H.W. Weber Send message Joined: 9 Feb 16 Posts: 73 Credit: 656,229,684 RAC: 130,815 Level Scientific publications	Message 45318 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 13:56:28 UTC - in response to Message 45317.
	What is your internet connnection speed? Because ultimately no matter how fast your internal network is, the bandwidth won't increase unless you have faster internet. The problem is at the GPUGRID server's end - believe me... :) Michael. ____________ President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization.
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Retvari Zoltan Send message Joined: 20 Jan 09 Posts: 2363 Credit: 16,532,676,481 RAC: 3,284,015 Level Scientific publications	Message 45320 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 16:02:31 UTC - in response to Message 45319.
	The virus spreading bots are also happy about the server upgrade.
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Old man Send message Joined: 24 Jan 09 Posts: 42 Credit: 16,676,387 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45321 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016 \| 16:04:25 UTC - in response to Message 45313.
	To my point of view you do not have a major problem with the storage devices but rather with bandwidth. You can't imagine how slow data transfer from your server is compared to other DC projects and how often it just breaks down and causes a reduction in project productivity. Michael. Try Seti@home project and you find very slow internet connection...and slow downloads.
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[CSF] Thomas H.V. DUPONT Send message Joined: 20 Jul 14 Posts: 732 Credit: 130,089,082 RAC: 2,116 Level Scientific publications	Message 45346 - Posted: 21 Nov 2016 \| 8:15:52 UTC
	Good news, Toni! Thanks for the heads-up :) ____________ [CSF] Thomas H.V. Dupont Founder of the team CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES 2.0 www.crunchersansfrontieres
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Michael H.W. Weber Send message Joined: 9 Feb 16 Posts: 73 Credit: 656,229,684 RAC: 130,815 Level Scientific publications	Message 45380 - Posted: 24 Nov 2016 \| 15:34:56 UTC - in response to Message 45321. Last modified: 24 Nov 2016 \| 15:39:05 UTC
	Try Seti@home project and you find very slow internet connection...and slow downloads. And because SETI's network performance is bad (which I actually can't confirm at all), GPUGRID has to be, too? The problem is that once a GPUGRID download is interrupted (which happens on a daily basis), no further work is delivered for a day. And that, in turn, reduces the project's overall throughput. As a consequence, at present, at our end over here, it is advisable to have a second GPU project running in parallel to GPUGRID just because GPUGRID's reliability in terms of work delivery is extremely insufficient. This other project then of course competes for the GPU cycles... Michael. ____________ President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization.
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Betting Slip Send message Joined: 5 Jan 09 Posts: 670 Credit: 2,498,095,550 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45415 - Posted: 28 Nov 2016 \| 1:13:18 UTC - in response to Message 45290. Last modified: 28 Nov 2016 \| 1:15:54 UTC
	Dear cruchers! the GPUGRID server you know and (I guess?) love has done a huge service to science. Thanks to your support, the experiments we have being running grew in size and scope... AND we have enough ideas for the future to keep this trend. So, we decided to significantly upgrade the capabilities of our server - and a new is almost in place. Likely next Monday, we'll stop the server for some hours, then perform the transition. We now need your patience, because the switch-over will require some down time (and hiccups, possibly). But we are definitely looking forwards for the new expanded experimental capacity! We'll keep you informed! Please give us a more firm ETA for server upgrade. I can't help but think you have let us down again both in server upgrade and keeping us informed about said upgrade and project as a whole.
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 11 Jul 09 Posts: 1629 Credit: 9,702,798,413 RAC: 9,968,853 Level Scientific publications	Message 45417 - Posted: 28 Nov 2016 \| 9:11:17 UTC - in response to Message 45290.
	Likely next Monday ... Does the empty ready-to-send queue imply that you meant this Monday?
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Toni Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 9 Dec 08 Posts: 1006 Credit: 5,068,599 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 45430 - Posted: 29 Nov 2016 \| 11:37:38 UTC - in response to Message 45417.
	Preparations for the move are ongoing. Another reason why we can't fill up the queue right now is that the old disk is at it capacity limit. By the way, old specs: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3470 @ 2.93GHz, 4 cores 24 GB of RAM ~2 TB of storage Redundant storage, power, etc. New specs: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz, 6 cores x 2 cpus 32 GB of RAM ~6 TB of storage Also redundant. Both are Dell Poweredge. The OS will be updated as well, implying that the recompiled BOINC server may require some tweak period.
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kain Send message Joined: 3 Sep 14 Posts: 152 Credit: 901,723,769 RAC: 676,249 Level Scientific publications	Message 45433 - Posted: 29 Nov 2016 \| 12:27:13 UTC
	Huge upgrade! Great :D
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Michael H.W. Weber Send message Joined: 9 Feb 16 Posts: 73 Credit: 656,229,684 RAC: 130,815 Level Scientific publications	Message 45563 - Posted: 3 Dec 2016 \| 11:11:03 UTC
	Upload took again hours to complete with only a few bytes of result data compared to other projects. And: Since days, WUs are not delivered again. Very disappointing. Michael. ____________ President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization.
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Erich56 Send message Joined: 1 Jan 15 Posts: 1147 Credit: 11,542,611,501 RAC: 20,892,910 Level Scientific publications	Message 45577 - Posted: 3 Dec 2016 \| 19:27:13 UTC
	Toni, any rough estimation as to when new WUs will be available for download ?
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