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21) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 62507
Posted 10 Jun 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		At approximately 20:21 UTC on 06/09 my computer received a message from Collatz that the "Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance".
22) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 61235
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz is back up.
23) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 61129
Posted 22 Mar 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz came back up several hours ago.
24) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 61116
Posted 21 Mar 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz came back up on 3/16, but went back off on 3/21. No big deal, as I have 4-6 days of C@H tasks remaining in the queues.
25) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 60716
Posted 6 Mar 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Update on my previous message 60688.

Now that Collatz is back up, my backlog of completed tasks has been uploaded and I received plenty of new tasks to crunch. I did not lose any completed work units, either; my crunching activity (~1.1 M/day) for the last 9 days (2/26-3/07) is within 3% of my activity for the preceding two weeks (2/12 to 2/26).

I am going to try to continue to treat Collatz and Slicker with patience. I think they deserve it.
26) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 60688
Posted 5 Mar 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Oddly enough, Collatz is still accepting completed tasks. So, I am going to keep crunching my Collatz work units until I run out of them. Hopefully, by that point Collatz will be back. In the meantime, I am going to look for alternatives. Not too many projects run on GPUs under Mac OS, particularly some of my older slower GPUs like NVIDIA GeForce 320M, NVIDIA GeForce 9400, and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT.
27) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 59925
Posted 22 Jan 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz is back up again!
28) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 59839
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Again, it would be a shame if Slicker pulled the plug on the project. Once we get passed the Martin Luther King Jr holiday, I will look to see if Slicker gives us some sign that the project is coming back online.
29) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 59786
Posted 18 Jan 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		BarryAZ, I am an old-timer, too - I began crunching for Seti in 2000, long before Berkeley developed the BOINC framework. I still crunch a small amount for Seti, but have shifted focus to other projects; it became too burdensome to troubleshoot the Seti optimized clients, particularly since the Mac OS is not a focal point for Seti. So, once, GPU apps were released by Einstein and Collatz, I shifted a lot of my effort there.
30) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 59709
Posted 17 Jan 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		I would be disappointed to see Collatz disappear. I would be surprised, too, as Slicker indicated that he had been putting "hundreds" of hours of effort trying to solve incompatibility issues with the AMD GPUs running tasks under OpenCL. (I am sure that I failed to accurately describe the problem. Nonetheless, the fact remains that Slicker claims he is investing much time and energy into the project.) On the other hand, there was a fair amount of grousing about the last outage on the Collatz forum, and I wonder if that might have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

By the way, BarryAZ, I saw you profiled at boinc.berkeley.edu. Congratulations!
31) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 59320
Posted 6 Jan 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Slicker frequently posts information about extended outages of Collatz at Home on the Collatz Conjecture forum at www.setiusa.us. You can find the threads at http://www.setiusa.us/forumdisplay.php?19-Collatz-Conjecture

Poked around a bit and didn't see any discussion of the ongoing extended outage. Bummer.
32) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 59318
Posted 6 Jan 2015 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Slicker typically lets the Collatz at Home community know when there is a severe problem that takes the project down for an extended period of time - even if it is a brief message on the home page of the web site. The fact that no one has heard anything for ~10 days is rather worrisome. I too hope that nothing is wrong with Slicker.
33) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 56452
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz appears to be down with the following message on its website: "The project's database server is down. Please check back in a few hours"
34) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 55242
Posted 6 Aug 2014 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz was back up on Monday, but is now down again.
35) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 55219
Posted 3 Aug 2014 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz down again. Appears to have been down since Friday. Anyone know anything? TIA
36) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 54935
Posted 18 Jul 2014 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz is down and appears to have been down for at least 24 hours. Does anyone have any news?
37) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 54656
Posted 30 Jun 2014 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz is "down for system maintenance".
38) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 54491
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Collatz is "down for system maintenance". So, it would appear that Slicker is trying to get the project up and running again.
39) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 54351
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by ProfileTigers Dave 		Looks like Collatz is down. Slicker's worst-case scenario happened on the second day of his vacation?
40) Message boards : Questions and problems : Slowest/Oldest BOINC Machine?
Message 53561
Posted 9 Apr 2014 by ProfileTigers Dave 		I ran BOINC on four Power Macintosh 7500s (PPC 601 CPU, introduced 1995), each upgraded to a 500 Mhz G3 processor. They ran OS/X slowly, but without a glitch. SETI@Home computer ID numbers are 2049370, 1994763, 2044006, and 2043989. Wife made me retire them - new house has no basement.
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