Collatz: Potential Outage After June 5 thru June 15

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From June 5-15, the temporary Collatz system admin will be the cat sitter. That doesn't sound very reassuring does it? Sorry, but if the server goes down and requires anything other than a simple reboot, there may be an extended outage. Unfortunately, the chances of that happening are higher than normal since Commonwealth Edison (a.k.a. ComEd, the electrical company in the area) failed to notify me on their original attempt to replace my power meter last week but were unable to do so since it evidently takes at least two people to do it. Since they didn't call before the last attempt, Murphy's Law suggests that they will not call before the next attempt and that it will take place while I am on vacation. The cat sitter doesn't know how to switch over to the generator if the outage exceeds the UPS battery so if the power is out for an extended period, Collatz may remain down until I get back.

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[Mumps]

You really need to train that cat then Slicker!

[cineon_lut]

Oh no. I got some Large Collatz waiting for upload...project backoff. THey expire on the 16th...SOOOO if @Slicker is back on the 15th, I could have a nice batch of Large WUs to upload and they'll still count.

Unless the cat sitter gets on the ball

[zombie67]

Just teach the cat sitter to cycle the power.

[Slicker]

If it crashes and the database and file system get out of sync or corrupted, cycling the power won't help. That's my worry.

[Mumps]

If it crashes and the database and file system get out of sync or corrupted, cycling the power won't help. That's my worry.

Agreed. Regardless of any amount of training, that'd still be a cat-ass-trophe...

[Bryan]

Agreed. Regardless of any amount of training, that'd still be a cat-ass-trophe...

ROFL

[cineon_lut]

OK, advice please. I have a bunch of downloaded Large Collatz work units that I could crunch and build up, and they'll be good 'till the 16th. Would you crunch those (several days worth on a 7970) or just let them sit until the server is confirmed back online. I'm just afraid if I crunch them that I won't get credit for them due to some database issue. The advantage to crunching them is about 4M creds.


Thoughts?

[cineon_lut]

For nVidia, yes. Work on GPU Grid will keep us just ahead of L'af in FB.

We're OK for now in 4th for GPU Grid, so I'm bouncing between GPU Grid and PrimeGrid for my NV's.

[cineon_lut]

I've had my power meter changed twice. So Cal Edi$on did it pretty quickly (~5min). Hopefully the UPS will hold.