May 23, 2002
Yesterday (May 22) was a busy day for SETI@home.
We have been preparing for a while to vastly increase our bandwidth.
For more information on that, see the article from the
Planetary Society: A Question of Bandwidth.
There was a network outage early in the day to establish the complete
link between the routers in the Space Sciences Lab in Berkeley to the
commercial internet in Palo Alto. We attempted this last week but failed
due to a flaky media converter. However, this time around the link
was successfully established!
Central campus will load test over the
weekend before we attempt to put the SETI@home data server on this pipe
(early next week, we hope).
On this same day we completely reorganized our server closet. Matt will
present a photo essay about the whole ordeal shortly. Basically, after
many months we successfully cleaned up all long-standing problems with the
online science database and moved it entirely onto our NetApp filer.
This allowed us to remove eight external six-packs of drives from our
science database server, now that they weren't being used anymore.
Since we were doing that, we took this
opportunity to clean up the whole closet, reconfigure the power
distribution, untangle nests of ethernet/scsi wires, rack mount our
Sun E450 servers to make extra floor space,
and even vacuum out all the dust bunnies in the corners.
What do I find incredible, amazing, unbelievable?
Look at the picture shown in the article of the Planetary Society. (I'll show the picture further down)
Now whoever wrote the text on the Technical News Reports didn't know a picture had been taken before they cleaned up the server closet and removed those six-packs.
Evidence A:
Evidence B:
(after cleaning up - same picture as shown on the Planetary Society article)
I think I would have removed the six-packs as well...