Cosmology Update

[gatekeeper53]

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,
Ben

[Gamma^Ray]

Thanks for the info !

I added the info to the Synergy Mainpage news for Cosmo to help spread the word.

[LAURENU2]

Is there a ETA for it to be back online

[Bok]

nope. but the homepage at least gives a quick status now...

Bok

[LAURENU2]

nope. but the homepage at least gives a quick status now...

Bok

Nope not yet Still The page cannot be displayed
Must be all the Calls form nodes trying to send in old WU's ___

[gatekeeper53]

I just talked to Ben Wandelt on the phone and he seems to believe that Cosmo should be up and running sometime today. It appears that they had trouble getting the new server to mesh all the software properly. He tells me that they are working around the clock to solve the problem. Also he assures me that no matter how much you have in your machines that you will recieve credit for them. He told me that this is the first real unscheduded downtime that the project has suffered and, that as with all of us, him and his people have learned much from it. He hopes that people will return once the project is back up, also he is sorry for the downtime. He would appreciate any help in getting the word out as to updates on the progress and especially when the project comes back online. He seems like a very nice guy.

[Bok]

Thanks for the update!

Bok