Thoughts about upcoming LLRnet rallies

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by em99010pepe

Sorry, that's out of the question.

Okay, no problem.

[gd_barnes]

Originally Posted by Brucifer

I'll be on the road then with everything shut down. But by all means do your rally! :)

What days/weeks will your machines be shut down Bruce?

[Beyond]

Originally Posted by em99010pepe

Sorry, that's out of the question.

I agree, the heavy hitters are not going to continue to come over for the rally(s) when the servers constantly fail. Another concern is the short duration of the rally makes it hard to justify the time spent setting up the clients on a large number of machines if that person is not going to continue with the project after the rally.

A suggestion on servers, allow all the current servers to run thier knpairs down to a low level just before the rally and refill them all with the range(s) you want to concentrate the rally on, then everyone will be running the perscribed range and the load can be balanced between all servers.

[Brucifer]

Originally Posted by gd_barnes

What days/weeks will your machines be shut down Bruce?

Actually after looking the whole situation over, I've decided to just shut the farm down. Things aren't getting any cheaper. I've retired and the wife will be too in the near future. So scaling back the computing expenses is part of the new budget. Will probably have the stuff offline by tomorrow. Been fun, but it doesn't put food in the cupboard or gas in the jeep. :)

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by Brucifer

Actually after looking the whole situation over, I've decided to just shut the farm down. Things aren't getting any cheaper. I've retired and the wife will be too in the near future. So scaling back the computing expenses is part of the new budget. Will probably have the stuff offline by tomorrow. Been fun, but it doesn't put food in the cupboard or gas in the jeep. :)

Okay--we should be able to clean up what's left in your personal LLRnet server pretty easily. From the start I'd marked it as "LLRnet (BP)" instead of just "Brucifer" in the LLRnet stats, so that it would be counted in the LLRnet stats like a public server, instead of in the manual stats, since I figured that's where you'd probably rather it be. An added bonus of this is that if anyone else contributes to the server, they get fully credited just as if they were crunching on any of our public servers.

If anybody's interested in cleaning up this server, just set your client to llrnet.ironbits.net port 8500. You can view server status at http://llrnet.no-ip.info, where IronBits has a page set up, similar to the one for the public servers at http://llrnet.ironbits.net, except that it's for private servers. (Right now we've got three servers on that page: port 8000 for Gary, port 8500 for Bruce, and port 10000 for me.)

IronBits, you may as well leave port 8500 on the private server page--there's only about n=4.25K left in the server, so it shouldn't take too long to dry out. Thus, it would be more hassle than it's worth to move it to the public server page.