Here are the delayed meeting notes from November 30th:

Bob announced that the Informix database going through a rough patch at the moment—Astropulse is down currently. SETI@Home is online, but we may need to take it offline in the next day or so in order to work on the database. We have a process in mind on how to go about fixing it, we just need to work through it. So don’t be alarmed if SETI@Home goes down briefly in the next couple days.

Will work we do on the database help solve speed problems in the future? Remember, we’ve been encountering some “slow-as-dirt” problems recently. No, unfortunately. According to Bob, the speed issue is a separate set of problems.

This week, Eric is hoping to get the zone RFI to a point where he can transition it to Jeff.

One problem we noticed is that ALFA (Arecibo L-band feed array, which is the multibeam receiver used for most sky surveys including SETI@home) has not been observing in the last couple of days. Jeff noticed that the data recorder hasn’t seen anything from alpha even though there is data collection scheduled. Investigation is required.

Just curious: How much of our computing power is from NVDIA as opposed to regular GPUs? Well, 25% currently processed by CUDA. But this number is confusing because it seems that most of our credit is coming from CUDA. This large amount of credit we are seeing mostly coming from people who bought fancy graphics cards recently (i.e. Mostly gamers) because year and a half old graphics cards don’t even support CUDA.

Matt and Jeff have just been working on catch-up work from Thanksgiving vacation, and Josh has just been working on his thesis.