-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Gesendet: Montag, 10. September 2001
17:21
Betreff: Re: Mersenne: Prime Net
Server
The thing is that even a 2-3 day outage is no big
deal, because if we are all responsible GIMPSers, then we have our "days of
work" configuration set to more than a couple days worth, right? So the
worst that should have happened is that you have a result to check back in and
have to wait for that while the next number is already crunching.
:)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:34
PM
Subject: AW: Mersenne: Prime Net
Server
I
beg your pardon: you didn´t really expect to get informed about a planned
outage BEFORE it happens or a crash AFTER it happened, did
you?
If
you did expect this, then you should have joined another
distributed-computing project like SETI. They do inform their participants
about such things. But people who are cool enough to find
million-digit-primes should be able to find out that the server is down the
whole weekend..... Well, you have to pay for it (in Germany), but who
cares?
Such an outage didn´t occur for the first time in
my (nearly) three years supporting GIMPS and others will follow. May be
that´s one reason why GIMPS lost about 8.000 to 9.000 machines during the
last six months.
Regards
Achim
Is there
scheduled maint. going on with the server today, or is this a unscheduled
outage?
Matt
