Im back again. Computer went mouse up thurs evening and it took until today to get it back. Good to be crunching again. Hard drive gave an imminent smart failure so I got VERY lucky and was able to clone it to another new drive and do a windows repair and nothing was lost except a few days crunching. When I went to check the old drive again after the clone it went clackety clack, I ain't comin' back. so talk about timing, wow.

Folks, if you are like me, and tend to put off backing stuff up..... do yourself a favor and do it. Luckily my last backup was a few months ago but still, two months can be a LOT of data to lose.

Aaron

Hi Ascholten,
glad to have you back. Yes, backups are an important and under-appreciated business. One good way to automatically back up your PC and/or laptop is Backblaze.
http://www.backblaze.com/
Some of the team use it on our personal computers - for the TB of CEP data, we had to obviously come up with a bit more large scale solution with our local tape robot ;).
Best wishes
Your Harvard CEP team

Yes, that was an irritant. But not nearly as annoying as the three "power events" I had over the weekend that drained my UPS systems completely and lead to a power supply failure in my primary domain controller/DNS server and the subsequent discovery that my backup power supply went in easy but blew a capacitor even easier...irksome, that the power supply that went was in the mostly idle domain controller. Guess I'll (finally) get around to promoting another server into a secondary DC seeing as how running DNS off my ISP rather than internally makes me uncomfortable.

Now that FedEx has finally delivered another power supply (to the wrong place, but I was watching the tracking number and hotfooted it down before someone went "Oh, look: It's my unbirthday!"), I will begin trying to place more systems online. (And/or ordering more parts, as the case may be.)

(Note to (un?)interested observers: Just because you have idle video GPUs and idle annoys you doesn't mean that you should crank them up on some other project "because you can". Especially if you have to tweak UPS monitoring parameters after you crank them up because the UPS systems are unhappy about available runtime in the event of power failure - but you're arrogant 'cuz the utility power has been clean and green for several years so why not.... )

Glad to see that we are back to normal with the returns.

Since it is hard for CEP2 to even do checkpoints very often, it indicates to me (a non-programmer) that it is not very parallel, but that everything depends on the state of everything else. I would think that there would never be a GPU application for it unless someone discovers an entirely new algorithm, but let me know if I am wrong.