Jeff, recently back from Nepal, didn’t have too much to say today, but right now he is working on testing out the RADAR blanking software with Matt. He also shared a fantastic photo (one of 1600) of the Himalayas. Although his trip was great fun, he did admit that it was a “scientific wash”—there was no Yeti to be found.

Dave is back from the BOINC conference over in Europe. There was a lot of people there, a lot of talks and papers. The main topics of discussion were GPUs and computing in virtual machines.

There are just a few short updates from this week's meeting:

One interesting proposition came up: Our science database, which runs on Informix, is having performance problems, and it was suggested that we consider moving to a different engine. Part of the problem is that NITPKcr hasn’t been able to really run on the Science database. The current solution: We will commission an unpaid undergraduate to do a feasibility study on a potential switch.

Fall weather has finally set in Berkeley CA and the SETI team met this week at the Space Sciences Lab despite the tempestuous rainstorm outside.

Bob reported that last week we accidentally stopped replicating beta, so we have to restart it this week. Other than that everything is going fine.

Sorry to all of you who looked in vain for the meeting notes last week. The meeting last week was rather small, and there was not too much going on— Matt and Eric just spent all day doing server cleanup. And well, to be perfectly honest, the meeting note taker had some Physics homework to attend to.

But here's what happened this week:

Bob reported that we had a weird thing happen in the database world. So we did have to turn off the replication for the week and we hope to restart it by tomorrow. Everything else seems to be going OK