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Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:22 pm
by graeme
Yes, thanks for the notes. A job finished last night and there was no backup to take up the slack. A new one was started this morning.

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:16 am
by rjbelans
Looks like it's still not keeping up. Was working for a bit, but back to 0 tasks.

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 1:23 am
by graeme
yeah, give us a sec.

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:31 am
by rjbelans
Up and running again. Thanks.

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:28 am
by CMmoose
... and it's down again - can someone shovel a litle more work into the servers, please?

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:12 am
by CMmoose
I've come to the conclusion that the team is turning off the servers every 6 hours to save money. Is that correct or is there another reason for this stop and start with the work servers?

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:15 pm
by graeme
Counter-intuitively, it is actually the times when the server stability is rockiest that the most progress is being made. In this case, we are getting numbers for a paper which rely on single clean calculations. This allows for a benchmark which can be compared to the super computers at the national labs. Other times when things are rough is when new code is being pushed out. The long and steady production runs are good, but generally not as exciting (for the science) as the new things being tried.

Anyway, things will get back up when the students wake up, and it should be more steady this week.

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:20 pm
by upstatelabs
Thank you for the update!

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:42 pm
by graeme
I see a new job kicking in now.

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:24 pm
by Beyond
CMmoose wrote:We seem to be back up and running now :)
Not so much :-(

Re: Project has no tasks available

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:51 am
by CMmoose
graeme wrote:Counter-intuitively, it is actually the times when the server stability is rockiest that the most progress is being made. In this case, we are getting numbers for a paper which rely on single clean calculations. This allows for a benchmark which can be compared to the super computers at the national labs. Other times when things are rough is when new code is being pushed out. The long and steady production runs are good, but generally not as exciting (for the science) as the new things being tried.

Anyway, things will get back up when the students wake up, and it should be more steady this week.
It would be nice to know before hand if it's going to be stop and start with work. A single sentance on the forum would be nice.