Lost time crunching...a tornado in Seneca, SC

[Vester]

The electrical service to my home comes to a substation in Fair Play, SC, and the trunk line comes through Seneca, SC. We were without power almost 72 hours due to an EF 3 tornado that damaged the trunk line. Four steel poles were leaning and was bent 60 degrees. Here are some photos of the trunk line damage. Here's a video.

My home was undamaged by the high winds. The path of the tornado was about 10 miles away. We only lost a 10 ft. diameter umbrella and had minor sod damage due to heavy rains. (Sod was laid on Friday before the tornado on Sunday night.)

I went into the damaged area today to the home of a friend in the worst-hit neighborhood in Seneca. She has an adult daughter who is disabled and uses a respirator at night. I took the respirator and charged the battery for two hours today.

 

[Nick Name]

Glad to hear you escaped the worst. That's pretty scary stuff!

 

[supdood]

Agreed--glad you made it through. It's always heartening to see how folks step up to help each other out in these situations. Also, pretty incredible how quickly the utility fixed that kind of damage and got everything restored.

 

[BeauZaux]

Wow! Happy you and yours are okay. Wish the area a speedy recovery.

 

[Vester]

Guys, I cannot get BOINC 7.15.0 to work anymore on either of my computers. I wanted to contribute to COVID-19 projects (GPU only) but Folding@home is messed up with server issues that used prohibitively large amounts of my measured service data. I am still with the team, but currently trying Einstein@home. They seem to have their act together.

 

[Nick Name]

Guys, I cannot get BOINC 7.15.0 to work anymore on either of my computers. I wanted to contribute to COVID-19 projects (GPU only) but Folding@home is messed up with server issues that used prohibitively large amounts of my measured service data. I am still with the team, but currently trying Einstein@home. They seem to have their act together.

No worries, sounds like you have bigger things to work on at the moment. What problem are you having with BOINC? Einstein is a pretty reliable project. Just keep in mind the Gravity Wave work takes a lot more CPU support than the other GPU app. As for F@H, I haven't paid any attention to file sizes etc. and the lack of task history makes it impossible to see how much bandwidth it's been using. I know the GPUGrid files are pretty large, it wouldn't surprise me if F@H was similar.

 

[Vester]

If uploads were uploaded to the server on the first try, there would not be a bandwidth problem. However, I have seen uploads fail at 97% uploaded. With as many as 32 back-logged results trying to upload at the same time, continuously, and repeatedly failing, FAH used 58 GB of data in four days!

I can see the data used in Windows 10 by going to All Settings > Network and Internet > (under Network Status there is) Data Usage pushbutton > Data Usage.

 

[Nick Name]

If uploads were uploaded to the server on the first try, there would not be a bandwidth problem. However, I have seen uploads fail at 97% uploaded. With as many as 32 back-logged results trying to upload at the same time, continuously, and repeatedly failing, FAH used 58 GB of data in four days!

I can see the data used in Windows 10 by going to All Settings > Network and Internet > (under Network Status there is) Data Usage pushbutton > Data Usage.

I had a problem like that when I first started, there were multiple reports on the forum about certain servers not accepting work. It seemed there was a misconfiguration and the jobs were too large and the server was rejecting them. Thankfully I haven't had that problem since, but if you can't return work there's no point in running it.