News on Project Outages

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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 111943 - Posted: 31 May 2023, 2:02:57 UTC - in response to Message 111942. Cosmology@Home website is up but I cannot log in to change preferences. I think it needs a new certificate?? http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ https://www.cosmologyathome.org//login_form.php?next_url= Yes, project needs new CA CERT. Been that way on & off for over 18 to maybe 24 months. SADLY, WEBMASTER / PROJECT ADMIN Missing in action, never replies to email, etc. ID: 111943 · Reply Quote

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 867	Message 112087 - Posted: 21 Jun 2023, 17:52:09 UTC Milkyway@home is down and unreachable. ID: 112087 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 112088 - Posted: 21 Jun 2023, 18:52:46 UTC Both iThena projects have been off line / unreachable for around 5 days. Usually it's off line for several hours when things get wonky and there's nothing posted on their Twitter page either. Boincstats confirms this: Last update user XML 2023-06-19 09:17:03 UTC (2 days 06:17:54 old) Last update host XML 2023-06-15 15:52:16 UTC (5 days 23:42:41 old) Last update team XML 2023-06-19 09:17:03 UTC (2 days 06:17:54 old) ID: 112088 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 112111 - Posted: 23 Jun 2023, 22:08:51 UTC DENIS@home website is semi-accessable but slow to load. BUT get error message "Can't connect to database". Forums not accessable either. Last weekend and at least one earlier this week the project encountered out of storage space problems. Probably happened again. ID: 112111 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 112113 - Posted: 24 Jun 2023, 1:38:44 UTC - in response to Message 112111. DENIS@home database is back online and allowing tasks to be sent / received again. ID: 112113 · Reply Quote

PMH_UK Send message Joined: 24 Dec 10 Posts: 35	Message 112115 - Posted: 24 Jun 2023, 6:53:18 UTC - in response to Message 112111. DENIS@home website is semi-accessable but slow to load. BUT get error message "Can't connect to database". Forums not accessable either. Last weekend and at least one earlier this week the project encountered out of storage space problems. Probably happened again. I have seen the DB go offline about 22:00 UTC on a few days, probably backups etc. Paul. ID: 112115 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 112127 - Posted: 25 Jun 2023, 14:29:30 UTC - in response to Message 112088. I see that both iThena projects are back online. As to be expected, no mention on project forums as to why the extended outage and I won't hold my breath waiting either. ID: 112127 · Reply Quote

Bill Freauff Send message Joined: 26 Mar 11 Posts: 176	Message 112223 - Posted: 3 Jul 2023, 3:47:50 UTC It appears that WuProp@home is off line.... Project home page times out. Bill F ID: 112223 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 112226 - Posted: 3 Jul 2023, 7:36:54 UTC - in response to Message 112223. WuProp is back up as of about 2 hours ago. ID: 112226 · Reply Quote

Cthulhu Send message Joined: 18 Nov 20 Posts: 14	Message 112272 - Posted: 8 Jul 2023, 18:38:53 UTC - in response to Message 111943. Last modified: 8 Jul 2023, 18:48:36 UTC Can we PLEASE get Cosmology@Home banned from the Project List page as they REFUSE to help new and old users alike... They are giving the entire BOINC universe a bad name over lazy administrative actions and ego! They haven't replied to any emails, forum posts, etc in well over a year... Time to flush them until they get their ship course corrected! ---Update--- I emailed the university to get eyes on this. Any alums here should ALSO email them your distaste for their neglect of this project! ID: 112272 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 112273 - Posted: 8 Jul 2023, 19:28:43 UTC - in response to Message 112272. Can we PLEASE get Cosmology@Home banned from the Project List page as they REFUSE to help new and old users alike... They are giving the entire BOINC universe a bad name over lazy administrative actions and ego! They haven't replied to any emails, forum posts, etc in well over a year... Time to flush them until they get their ship course corrected! ---Update--- I emailed the university to get eyes on this. Any alums here should ALSO email them your distaste for their neglect of this project! Yes. REMOVE Cosmology@home from approved/ current BOINC list. * It has been over 2 years and counting since any project scientist / administrator has been active in the project forums. * Project website completely failed ALL SECURITY TESTS: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.cosmologyathome.org I could post more reasons but these two alone should suffice for removing the project. ID: 112273 · Reply Quote

Cthulhu Send message Joined: 18 Nov 20 Posts: 14	Message 112275 - Posted: 9 Jul 2023, 0:21:17 UTC - in response to Message 112273. Can we PLEASE get Cosmology@Home banned from the Project List page as they REFUSE to help new and old users alike... They are giving the entire BOINC universe a bad name over lazy administrative actions and ego! They haven't replied to any emails, forum posts, etc in well over a year... Time to flush them until they get their ship course corrected! ---Update--- I emailed the university to get eyes on this. Any alums here should ALSO email them your distaste for their neglect of this project! Yes. REMOVE Cosmology@home from approved/ current BOINC list. * It has been over 2 years and counting since any project scientist / administrator has been active in the project forums. * Project website completely failed ALL SECURITY TESTS: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.cosmologyathome.org I could post more reasons but these two alone should suffice for removing the project. Maybe it's time to get rid of BOINC Central, too? SMH! ID: 112275 · Reply Quote

Cthulhu Send message Joined: 18 Nov 20 Posts: 14	Message 112286 - Posted: 12 Jul 2023, 21:34:40 UTC - in response to Message 112275. Got an email from the university for Cosmology@Home… “ We have been getting emails since January regarding this website. I asked the Department of Astronomy faculty about it and was told that we don't run this website. I realize that the U of I Astronomy is listed on the bottom of the page, which is where the confusion is coming from. I also saw that Marius Millea is someone to contact about the website. He is at the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. I have pasted his contact information below. mariusmillea@gmail.com Sincerely, Rebecca Bare Department of Astronomy University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: on the ancestral lands of Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Chickasaw Nations 103 Astronomy Building 1002 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 217-265-8226 Hours: M-Th, 8:30 to 12:00 and 12:30 to 2:00 F. 8:30 to 12:30” Looks like a dead end! He doesn’t reply to emails or died. ID: 112286 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 112287 - Posted: 12 Jul 2023, 22:07:37 UTC - in response to Message 112286. I looked up "Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics". Found 2 websites for that department > https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/saul-perlmutter -- and -- https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/research-unit/berkeley-center-cosmological-physics Apparently Saul Perlmutter is responsible for that department. His contact / email information is on the first link above. Maybe you could try contacting him to see if he or someone else could provide a contact for person(s) responsible for maintaining the BOINC Cosmology project? ID: 112287 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1342	Message 112289 - Posted: 14 Jul 2023, 0:48:10 UTC WuProp has gone offline again in as many days.... I'm guessing it won't be back online for another 4 to 4.5 hours based on all the recent outage's. This was at least a monthly reoccurring issue since early January this year (2023); then it started weekly about 2 months ago; now it's almost daily the past 2 to 3 weeks. What ever is going on at the project, the owner/ administrator Sebastian is not replying to request in his project forums for answers. ID: 112289 · Reply Quote

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 867	Message 112311 - Posted: 19 Jul 2023, 20:16:21 UTC NumberFields is down at the University level. ID: 112311 · Reply Quote

Cthulhu Send message Joined: 18 Nov 20 Posts: 14	Message 112321 - Posted: 20 Jul 2023, 21:48:15 UTC - in response to Message 112287. This episode of "Better Call Saul" was no good... Dead end. Can BOINC just purge Cosmology@Home until they get their act together since it lacks ANY and ALL accounting at the moment?! ID: 112321 · Reply Quote

Bill Freauff Send message Joined: 26 Mar 11 Posts: 176	Message 112323 - Posted: 21 Jul 2023, 3:16:36 UTC - in response to Message 112321. No BOINC can not Purge Cosmology they are what they are. All that can be done is to try to educate crunching volunteers to use their system power on more worthwhile projects. Bill F ID: 112323 · Reply Quote

Cthulhu Send message Joined: 18 Nov 20 Posts: 14	Message 112343 - Posted: 24 Jul 2023, 0:52:23 UTC - in response to Message 112323. They can delist them from the Projects page... Been done before, should be done again here. Especially important as they have a wide open site right now with no updated SSL, so users beware. ID: 112343 · Reply Quote

Toby Broom Send message Joined: 14 Apr 12 Posts: 48	Message 112451 - Posted: 4 Aug 2023, 18:37:45 UTC Radioactive@Home is down at the moment. ID: 112451 · Reply Quote

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