We have now watched the ETMY computer situation for a little over 150 minutes, and have seen one 'event' where the CPU time of the scy model hit 62 microseconds, and a glitch in the ETMY OSEM sensors happened at the same time.  We also see no such glitches at any other time, which makes sense with our latest hypothesis, since this event was the only time that the CPU time reported being greater than 61 microseconds.  (1/16384 Hz = 61.1696 microseconds). 

I have now restarted the c1tst model, to see if that increases the rate of glitches (assuming that running another model heats up the whole computer a bit more, and that makes things run a little bit slower).

Wed Oct 23 21:05:28 2013 

RXA: It looks like there was a real effect. Its between -2.5 and 0 on the plot below.

I've stopped the process of c1tst again to make it get better. At 9:20, I also went and opened the front rack door (the back one was already open). One reason its hot may be that the exhaust vents on the top of c1iscey are blocked by one of the custom multi-pin adaptor boxes. In the morning, we should drop the computer down by 1 or 2 notches in the rack so that it can air cool itself better. Make sure to poweroff the computer from the terminal before moving it though.

I checked the cabling somewhat. The fat grey cable which comes out of the old Sander Liu AA chassis was connected to the blue adaptor box but the strain relief screws were not being used. I tightened them (we need to buy a set of small screwdrivers for the toolboxes at each end). While doing this, the Cat6 cable in the back labeled 'c1iscey' popped out and the screen went white. This cable has a broken latch on it so it doesn't stay put - needs to be replaced too during the computer move.