FYI for S-M Team members AND Short-Media ADMINS....

Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
edited January 2004 in Folding@Home
The stats server is down for maintainence at this time, expect it up at or after midnight Pacific Daylight Time, probably early morning site time for S-M (morning of Jan 7, 2003) about 3 AM CST (UDT\GMT -6 hours is Short-Media site time zone), so expect no stats anywhere to update until after that time. I'm sorry too, but can't be helped.

There is a maintainance note up on the Folding Stats site with that info, that is where I got this info.

John-- waiting for stats server to come up to show white COG attained....

Comments

  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2004
    does that mean we cant turn in wu's or recieve them?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    You still can...only the stats server will be down.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Correct,they have about 20 servers at their end. They rotate mainainance, and tonight it is the stats server's turn. What they will do, is take the turned in WUs that were turned in, add points for those-- that will probably be a batch update of points run, and result will be some interesting results on the servers listed in the Folding area of this site. Some folks will find themselves with a bunch of points added to tomorrows results while their local boxes turned in today-- expect that, it cannot be helped much. Credit you will get, it will just show up later than normal.

    John.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Doesn't EOC draw stats from there?
    I would venture to say it does ...look forward to an EOC spike tomorrow.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    wehave stats once again ...thanks for the heads-up there john!
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2004
    i just went to check stats on stanford server and sait too busy anyone else that problem or is the server still down?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    I got that earlier this morning. Dont worry about it for now.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Um, it had two jobs to do after it was maintained:

    One, it had to get data from all the acceptiung servers as to WUs that were accepted while it was being maintained.

    Second, all the mirrors that were trying to get data updated had to be fed. As of a couple minutes ago, looks like the first part is done totally, and within 24 hours I would expect things to be caught up enough (mirrors up to date within time frame of their individual pickup cycles) that the stats server load will drop again more to normal.

    Remember, same Stanford Folding stats server gathers stats from servers that accept WUs, calcs stats and feeds them. Folding has only so many boxes it can afford to own. Much of the research is done without any grants, and much of the processing also is. They depend on monetary contributions from trusts, Stanford itself, and some grant contract work to get money to run.

    They are in California, which has had power problems, and have had to invest funds into power glitch protection (UPSs among other things), generators to keep servers up and fuel for generators for longer term outages, and Stanford built them a new building (or gave them more space) as well to house folding's operations and the department at Stanford that sponsors it out of their budget (in large part). At any one time they are keeping up and running 20+ servers just to admin the distributed network.

    John.
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