Is the validator down?

Anonymous
4 Jan 2005 2:43:18 UTC
Topic 10657
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    > Wondering if the validator or something is down? I haven't seen a change in
    > RAC or Total Credit for at least 24 hours, and my Pending credit is soaring
    > (over 5000 now). Just curious.

    Yes. Bruce shut down the validator for the time being to help with our testing of the new server.
    We should be running E@h off the new server really soon.

    Bruce Allen
    Bruce Allen
    Joined: 15 Oct 04
    Posts: 958
    Credit: 170,849,008
    RAC: 0

    Is the validator down?

    4 Jan 2005 19:04:04 UTC
    Message 111
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      The validator is now back up and running well. As David said, I shut it down because I wanted to accumulate a couple of days of results so that I could test it on a good-sized amount of work. We did find and fix a couple of bugs that were marking some valid results as being invald.

      One difference you will now notice is that with our upgraded BOINC server-side software, results will 'stick around' for a week before they are purged from the database. So valid (and invalid) results will now be available 'for your viewing pleasure' for a week after the work unit is completed.

      Bruce

      David Hammer
      David Hammer
      Joined: 15 Oct 04
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      Credit: 82,938
      RAC: 503

      > Is the validator down

      15 Jan 2005 17:05:01 UTC
      Message 112
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        > Is the validator down again?
        > I have seen some WU's with three or four results back, still on pending.

        Yes. The validator has been shut down because a bug was found that caused some correct results to be marked as invalid when they were correct. As I understand the bug has been fixed and the new validator will be put in place soon.

        In the bigger picture we a getting close to doing another major upgrade that will take us one step closer to our public release.

        Bruce Allen
        Bruce Allen
        Joined: 15 Oct 04
        Posts: 958
        Credit: 170,849,008
        RAC: 0

        The validator is back up (and

        17 Jan 2005 21:39:42 UTC
        Message 113
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          The validator is back up (and testing). Some bugs may still remain -- hopefully we will get these out soon.

          Bruce

          Bernd Machenschalk
          Bernd Machenschalk
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          Posts: 2,684
          Credit: 25,950,161
          RAC: 34,820

          With the migration to the new

          18 Jan 2005 16:16:46 UTC
          Message 114
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            With the migration to the new scheduler and the bug in the validator aparently we lost quite a number of (pending) credits which we couldn't revive. Sorry folks, but this is alpha test.

            BM

            BM

            Bruce Allen
            Bruce Allen
            Joined: 15 Oct 04
            Posts: 958
            Credit: 170,849,008
            RAC: 0

            (1) When I shifted to using

            18 Jan 2005 18:38:06 UTC
            Message 115
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              (1) When I shifted to using the new scheduler yesterday and cancelled some existing workunits/results, I gave credit whenever possible to sucessful results.

              (2) Just to repeat it again: unless something goes badly wrong (eg, I make a mistake) our test users will keep their credits when we go public.

              Cheers,
              Bruce

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