Message boards : Projects : World Community Grid has announced an extended outage from Feb 14 to April 22, 2022
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Send message Joined: 24 Dec 10 Posts: 36 |
Workunits downloading, with usual re-tries. Website down with Error 500: (was up for a while last night). Paul. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
20.5 hours later, and the site is still down. Not a peep from the team on Facebook or Twitter. And of course, the BOINC part is slow on downloads, and full of HTTP errors as usual. But, in 11 days, that doesn't matter for me at least. Nov 1st will my new electricity contract begin, and with up to 5 times as high cost per kWh as now, crunching will be the last thing on my mind. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
Finally, after almost 23 hours downtime, they posted the following on Facebook: "We are currently suffering a communication issue between the website and our database, resulting in an inability to log in properly (or access the website in some browsers). We apologize and will notify you when it has been resolved." |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
Well, the site came back for a few hours, but again it went down after the staff abandoned their workplace, and went home. No reaction on Facebook, which clearly shows that they do not have anyone checking the projects 24/7, or use some automatic means to get a message when things go wrong. Not good for such a big project as WCG. If things doesn't improve soon, WCG will not continue to be a big project though... |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
And there's no sign of any new work today, either - except the occasional one or two stragglers limping in. I hope Krembil are aware - but I fear that they are not - that for a successful scientific research project under BOINC, all the moving parts have to be working at the same time. Work has to be generated, allocated, downloaded, processed, uploaded, validated, and assimilated. The entire pipeline moves at the speed of the slowest. And if one piece breaks, they're all broken. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
I did get 19 new (_0) OPNG tasks from batch 0160806 at 09:45 UTC+2, but they are crunched, and gone. The last two uploaded and reported at 10:39 UTC+2. Since then, nothing, nada, not even any resends. Krembil/Jurisica really have to get their act together, or just throw in the towel, and admit that they're not up to running WCG. |
Send message Joined: 24 Dec 10 Posts: 36 |
I just got some more _0 OPNG with no retries, 7 of 8 slots filled. Paul. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
After my 19 OPNG's at 09:45 UTC+2, I've only received 2 (_2) OPNG resends (not asking for CPU tasks) Website still down. Apart from fixing their inability to tame the IBM WCG system, they really need to work on their communication skills. Not a peep from them on their social media sites, regarding this latest kaboom. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310 |
Website still down. Apart from fixing their inability to tame the IBM WCG system, they really need to work No one in a large organization communicates bad results, only good ones. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
New post from WCG on Facebook: Access to the WCG website is restricted for a short time while we work to expand the storage capacity of the WCG. This should not prevent workunits from being sent out. This will help identify the underlying system issues and crashes that we have been having trouble with for the past few weeks. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
And the website is up again. However I doubt it will stay up for many hours. No tasks (OPNG) for many hours now. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
Poof, and website down again. Rinse and repeat..... It's quite obvious by now, that they haven't got a clue about why this happens time after time. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
Geeze, that was surprising. Someone is actually working in the WCG team on a Saturday. The website is back up again. But of course, I do not expect it to last for long. |
Send message Joined: 24 Dec 10 Posts: 36 |
Website down, scheduler still responding. Paul. |
Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1444 |
Updated "news" from WCG 2022-10-27 Update (Workunits & storage update) Hi everyone, we’re happy to see that volunteers are receiving more OPN1 workunits than last week. We recently increased our DB2 storage pool and switched to a more coarse-grained scheduling method for creating and packaging new workunits for each project. This change may have temporarily disrupted WU scheduling, but we will need to monitor further and likely explore additional possible causes before we can consider the issue resolved. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
And the WCG website just crashed again. |
Send message Joined: 24 Dec 10 Posts: 36 |
Scheduler still respomding, so far. Paul. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2706 |
Website back up but still no ARP work. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
And down again. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
And the download servers are playing hard to get. |
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