News on Project Outages

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Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 837	Message 106197 - Posted: 27 Nov 2021, 3:33:00 UTC why would they bunker tasks? No idea. Not aware of any challenges for Universe. But they did the same thing two weeks ago. Dumped 7X their average work today. Everybody should get a nice credit bump today from all their pendings finally clearing back to normalcy. https://stats.free-dc.org/team/uni/3 ID: 106197 · Reply Quote

Jan Henrik Send message Joined: 5 Jul 20 Posts: 31	Message 106207 - Posted: 27 Nov 2021, 21:33:22 UTC CAMK is online again universe@home website displays "shutdown for maintenance" could upload but all stuck in "ready to report" updates pushed back 1 hour so no new tasks for the middle of a Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend that's some progress "less than a pixel" ID: 106207 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5065	Message 106217 - Posted: 28 Nov 2021, 9:17:23 UTC GPUGrid have let their server https certificate expire. No uploads or downloads, no scheduler contact, website can't be accessed unless you bypass the warnings. ID: 106217 · Reply Quote

Jan Henrik Send message Joined: 5 Jul 20 Posts: 31	Message 106228 - Posted: 29 Nov 2021, 3:32:01 UTC - in response to Message 106197. . . . Everybody should get a nice credit bump today from all their pendings finally clearing back to normalcy. to me it looks like rather everybody got a credit-average cut could download tasks again, but still got a lot of pendings besides that; universe is all "norminal" again . . . "less than a pixel" ID: 106228 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5065	Message 106229 - Posted: 29 Nov 2021, 8:41:31 UTC GPUGrid has been repaired, with a new certificate valid until 27 February 2022 (watch out for a repeat performance then). But the server will be very busy with recovery today. ID: 106229 · Reply Quote

Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Oct 15 Posts: 391	Message 106419 - Posted: 14 Dec 2021, 21:21:10 UTC Milkyway seems to be down. ID: 106419 · Reply Quote

Harri Liljeroos Send message Joined: 25 Jul 18 Posts: 57	Message 106480 - Posted: 22 Dec 2021, 8:59:02 UTC https://einsteinathome.org/ seems to be down. ID: 106480 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5065	Message 106481 - Posted: 22 Dec 2021, 10:14:01 UTC - in response to Message 106480. Last modified: 22 Dec 2021, 10:55:17 UTC https://einsteinathome.org/ seems to be down. Seems to be affecting the website and the scheduler only: completed tasks can be uploaded, but not reported. I think the upload servers are in Europe, but the web servers are in America. It may be this afternoon (European time) before they can investigate. Edit: I was wrong - they're back. ID: 106481 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5065	Message 106483 - Posted: 22 Dec 2021, 15:19:57 UTC Bernd wrote: A few hours ago the Einstein@Home servers experienced a hard shutdown. Apparently several safety measurements failed, for most of these it's still unclear why. We're trying to get the servers back up running and replace the ones with terminal failures and are working on restoring all services before Friday. Until then you may experience some limitations. In particular the O3AS workunit generator isn't running. ID: 106483 · Reply Quote

mlviper Send message Joined: 7 Sep 20 Posts: 40	Message 106640 - Posted: 2 Jan 2022, 21:48:58 UTC Last modified: 2 Jan 2022, 21:49:30 UTC Happy New Year! :D universe@home seems down, website unreachable, and no new WUs received. ID: 106640 · Reply Quote

robsmith Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 25 May 09 Posts: 1279	Message 106655 - Posted: 3 Jan 2022, 19:58:59 UTC - in response to Message 106640. The log in page is back, but totally unresponsive.... ID: 106655 · Reply Quote

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 837	Message 106672 - Posted: 4 Jan 2022, 19:27:47 UTC The Universe website has been unreachable for over a day. ID: 106672 · Reply Quote

Michael Blucher Send message Joined: 3 Jan 20 Posts: 7	Message 106678 - Posted: 5 Jan 2022, 10:38:41 UTC Anyone know what happened to Universe at Home: https://universeathome.pl/universe/home.php The project site appears to be unreachable. Regards Michael Blucher ID: 106678 · Reply Quote

Les Bayliss Help desk expert Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 1654	Message 106679 - Posted: 5 Jan 2022, 11:33:11 UTC it's at a University, so, while the University site is up, it seems that the BOINC project isn't, and everyone will probably have to wait until the project owner is back on site. ID: 106679 · Reply Quote

Jan Henrik Send message Joined: 5 Jul 20 Posts: 31	Message 106681 - Posted: 5 Jan 2022, 13:50:18 UTC - in response to Message 106678. Anyone know what happened to Universe at Home: https://universeathome.pl/universe/home.php The project site appears to be unreachable. Regards Michael Blucher When the site was up (briefly and somewhat wobbly) I found this; Krzysztof 'krzyszp' Piszcek [the administrator] posted in the "No tasks" - thread at 1 Jan 2022,16:46:36 UTC "The recent server problem comes as with current load we have massive traffic between main and storage server and between main and database server. I'm working in it but still can't recognize what exactly makes troubles in whole system." Their servers where going down(and quietly restarted mostly on weekends) with increasing frequency. IMHO they take their time now to look what's really going on there. "less than a pixel" ID: 106681 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1269	Message 106682 - Posted: 5 Jan 2022, 14:18:18 UTC - in response to Message 106681. krzyszp posted this over at BOINCstats: Index :: The Projects :: Universe@Home server crash On January 1, the project server had a serious physical failure. After trying to restart, it started for several hours, but stopped responding shortly after. As it turned out, at least one of his hard drives had physically crashed. As the main server of the project is also the oldest of the machines used in the project, we currently do not have any disk to replace the one that has died, and the other two that are also already old and need to be replaced. We will be ordering new disks soon, and before the end of January I will go to Warsaw to replace them and restart the project server, unfortunately I can't do it earlier. All user data and computed tasks are completely safe on a separate machine (the database server is physically different machine), while all computed results are also stored on a another machine. Regards, Krzysztof 'krzyszp' Piszczek Boinc@Poland team member. ID: 106682 · Reply Quote

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15431	Message 106683 - Posted: 5 Jan 2022, 14:43:25 UTC Meanwhile at BOINCstats: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to boincstats.com. - The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. - Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. ID: 106683 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5065	Message 106684 - Posted: 5 Jan 2022, 14:52:10 UTC - in response to Message 106683. The BOINCstats website (as seen from here) is using a Cloudflare certificate valid from 11 August 2021 to 10 August 2022. I've sometimes seen problems establishing a secure connection to a busy and active server: I think https requires significantly more server resource to establish the connection than http. If server operators have succumbed to the pressure for 'https for everything', without upgrading their hardware, glitches can happen. They usually clear within a few minutes or hours. ID: 106684 · Reply Quote

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15431	Message 106685 - Posted: 5 Jan 2022, 15:24:58 UTC - in response to Message 106684. At least Firefox says that an error occurred, Chrome is less obvious: This site can’t be reached The webpage at https://boincstats.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR ID: 106685 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5065	Message 106686 - Posted: 5 Jan 2022, 15:37:49 UTC - in response to Message 106685. It was Chrome (under Windows 7) that let me retrieve those certificate details. ID: 106686 · Reply Quote

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