I received the following from folks working on the GLAST project, the Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope. The skymodel mentioned is a Monte Carlo simulation to check on the ability to collect data. It is run simultaneously on up to 1000 machines with Oracle as its backend ... =============================================================================================================== Hi Ian, This may sound odd, but a black hole source in our skymodel ate a bunch of jobs last night (they went into infinite loops when the BH was active), so we lost a bit of time. Tom is estimating 3pm tomorrow for completion. Is an outage of the weekend ok by you? Saturday or Sunday? ====================================================================================================================== Sunday was fine. The system is now patched. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l