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: 10 May 07 Posts: 1449 |
World Community Grid has announced an extended outage as they transition hosts from IBM to the Krembil Research Institute. [url]https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=757[[/url] As part of preparing for the final phase of WCG migration, we want to make volunteers aware of the following important dates: World Community Grid pauses sending out work units: February 14, 2022. World Community Grid pauses receiving work units: February 27, 2022. Website and forum will be offline: from February 28 until April 22, 2022. A simplified version of the website will act as a sign post during the transition, to share updates and communicate our progress and roadmap for the World Community Grid in 2022. |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
This transition has not been going well. WCG is still down, but sounds like it is getting close to coming back on line. See link below for a status update from yesterday 5/10. They'll give us a new schedule tomorrow. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/news/0510 |
Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1449 |
Does not sound like they are fully aware of how complicated the WCG hardware/software infastructure is and maybe even not getting proper transition help from IBM. At this rate, I don't see them coming back fully operational at least until end of this month or possibly further down the road from there. |
Send message Joined: 31 Dec 18 Posts: 298 |
Which is odd as WebSphere / Message Broker is a fairly standard combination for real time transaction processing. |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
... IBM’s extended support will end on March 2, 2022. It appears the Krembil Research Institute has been "on their own" since 3/2. If true that does not sound like a good plan and could explain some of the delay... |
Send message Joined: 18 Nov 20 Posts: 14 |
I've started to refer to Krembil as Kerbal as at the moment, I see no differences as they went into this entirely unprepared, which means this project might not exist at some point. BOINC showrunners don't seem to be helping them out either based on a conversation I had with a Krembil researcher who voiced her concerns to me about the delay, etc. Would be devastating to lose one of the largest projects from ineptitude! |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310 |
Would be devastating to lose one of the largest projects from ineptitude! That is more of a cheap shot than an analysis. What is surprising is that IBM was willing to undertake such a large and complicated project for many years. They devoted a lot of resources and good people to it. Try to find another as good anywhere. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2709 |
Would be devastating to lose one of the largest projects from ineptitude! From what I have read, I expect WCG to be up and running again at some point. There may well be hiccoughs along the way, indeed I would be surprised if there were not given the scale of the project. If it were to fall by the wayside, I wonder if some of the sub-projects could be taken up by others in similar fields? I don't know what the financial structure of WCG is or what the future one proposed is. CPDN, now they don't generate their own work, Oxford are paid by researchers around the world to package the tasks up and distribute them. They also provide a lot of practical help to the researchers on how to get things right before they go out. Would those behind Africa Rainfall Project be able to use the CPDN servers in that way? Just a thought that there might be other synergies around as well. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310 |
I wonder if some of the sub-projects could be taken up by others in similar fields? Yes, in particular I would think that Scripps could run OPN by themselves if they want to. They have funding from several sources, and are probably a lot bigger than Krembil. |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
According to a post on Facebook (can't find the link at the moment), "the revised date for launch will be May 24th, 2022..." (Details once someone finds the link.) |
Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1449 |
WCG Facebook posting Edit to add ... The revised date for launch will be May 24th, 2022, after Victoria day. |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
WCG is almost ready to restart. The Boinc client is set to check for work units only once per day. You might check manually a few times per day to see if you can snag some work. Ni! |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
The Boinc client is currently set to check for work units only once per day. You might check manually a few times per day to see if you can snag some work. Ni!The WCG server has been set to require a 24 hour delay during the whole transition period. Hopefully, they will remove that requirement when, or soon after, they create new work and verify that everything is running nominally. After that, the contact backoff will go back to seconds or minutes - all you have to do is catch your first task (not always easy at WCG!), and after that everything should run by itself. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310 |
World Community Grid https://www.facebook.com/worldcommunitygrid.org |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
Well, they didn't yesterday. But on their own website, they simply said "We will provide further details early next week." - the week is yet young, especially in Canada.World Community Grid |
Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1449 |
Another deadline missed by Krembel. Enough said. |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
Dear Volunteers, See additional details at the link above. |
Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1449 |
And there finally was signs of life at WCG: Website and forum are now online. Published on: 21 Jun 2022 |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
It does not appear work units have started flowing. Perhaps that is the "very exciting news soon." |
Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1449 |
It does not appear work units have started flowing. Perhaps that is the "very exciting news soon." Yes, that is mentioned on the WCG forums. |
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