Dear cruchers!

the GPUGRID server you know and (I guess?) love has done a huge service to science. Thanks to your support, the experiments we have being running grew in size and scope... AND we have enough ideas for the future to keep this trend.

So, we decided to significantly upgrade the capabilities of our server - and a new is almost in place. Likely next Monday, we'll stop the server for some hours, then perform the transition. We now need your patience, because the switch-over will require some down time (and hiccups, possibly).

But we are definitely looking forwards for the new expanded experimental capacity! We'll keep you informed!

Thank you Toni,

Sounds like good news and since you think its worth the investment it makes me more confident that the work and my contribution to it is worthwhile.

Downtime and teething problems are to be expected in this case.

Could you give us the old and the news specs?

Thanks, Toni.

Bring on the new beast....

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John

Good news. My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational.

"My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational."

+100

"My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational."

+100

+1000000

Yes, our commitment is steady. The computing power you are donating provides a scientific tool whose importance can not be overstated.

The most important upgrade is the disks - storage space was somewhat limiting, in the sense that we had to pay attention to not having too many experiments running at the same time. (And note that the server only works as a temporary buffer!)

It's "only" a hw upgrade or there is also some sw updates (for example boinc server libraries)??

"My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational."

+100

+1000000

+10*291 :-)

Very good news, hoping it goes well :)

Good news for sure! I look forward to crunching even more work units. I might even bring a second GPU on line to celebrate.

Congrats guys! This is good news for both us (the users) and your team[s] as well!

And yes, specs would be most interesting to see (they don't want to tell us it's actually being hosted on an old HP-UX box with a PA-RISC CPU, or maybe an IBM AS/400...).

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"Apollo was astonished, Dionysus thought me mad..."

To my point of view you do not have a major problem with the storage devices but rather with bandwidth. You can't imagine how slow data transfer from your server is compared to other DC projects and how often it just breaks down and causes a reduction in project productivity.

Michael.

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President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization.

Congrats! :)

+googolplex :)

"My hope is that somehow the ever annoying download issue will be gone when the new server is fully operational."

+100

+1000000

+10*291 :-)

+googolplex :D

What is your internet connnection speed? Because ultimately no matter how fast your internal network is, the bandwidth won't increase unless you have faster internet.

What is your internet connnection speed? Because ultimately no matter how fast your internal network is, the bandwidth won't increase unless you have faster internet.

The problem is at the GPUGRID server's end - believe me...

:)

Michael.

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President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization.

The virus spreading bots are also happy about the server upgrade.