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: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
World Community Grid: Notice from BOINC This project seems to have changed its URL. When convenient, remove the project, then add https://master.worldcommunitygrid.org/ 7/5/2022 11:49:12 PM Still no work, but get set up for it... |
Send message Joined: 31 Dec 18 Posts: 293 |
World Community Grid: Notice from BOINC That message appears to be spurious, there is no need to change URL. Good news is that there’s been a lot of activity over the past day trying to get the server on-line and some files have been sent out. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2676 |
Just seen on BOINC processing for Science Facebook page a post about getting first tasks from WCG since outage. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 410 |
Just seen on BOINC processing for Science Facebook page a post about getting first tasks from WCG since outage. Still only a test. Full restart will take some time, probably several weeks. There are still tons of unresolved issues to fix. This migration became more of a total rebuild than a migration. |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
Dear volunteers, |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
I just snagged a couple of Africa Rainfall Project work units. Anyone else gittin' 'em sum WCG? 😉 |
Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1438 |
Received & processed about 10 or so OPN (Open Pandemics) and one or two ARP (African Rainfall) last week. All completed without errors on my end and most validated except a few OPN tasks. WCG sill a long way from being 100%. I suspect that it's many months before we can call it 'back to normal'. |
Send message Joined: 18 Nov 20 Posts: 14 |
They're at least two weeks away from a fix. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 410 |
WCG fell off the Internet totally it seems. downforeveryoneorjustme.com says: Is Worldcommunitygrid.org down? Checking if worldcommunitygrid.org is down or it is just you... It's not just you! worldcommunitygrid.org is down. BOINC says: 2696 World Community Grid 2022-07-26 00:45:48 Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 2697 World Community Grid 2022-07-26 00:45:48 Requesting new tasks for CPU 2698 World Community Grid 2022-07-26 00:45:50 Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name 2699 2022-07-26 00:45:51 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 2700 2022-07-26 00:45:53 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 410 |
Still totally down here. Both the website, and the BOINC part of WCG. No updates on Facebook or Twitter at all. They really have to work on their communication skills. It's not OK to leave thousands of volunteers without any information at all, when things like this happens. I'm beginning to seriously doubt if Jurisica Lab, really will be able to make WCG work. Krembil doesn't seem to help them much at all. I've been told by a person within WCG, "We run from Krembil - but the institution is not running it (they did help with the legal discussions with IBM during transfer)." So Jurisica Lab, seems to be on their own running the project, and by the looks of things they do not have enough resources, or any support from Krembil Research Institute. They are using sharcnet.ca as their Internet and cloud provider, but Krembil as such, is not involved in running the project at all. |
Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1438 |
WCG web site is back after some "complications" that knocked them off the ether. |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
I had not heard of Jurisica Lab before. Trying to make sense of this, I read the "Who Are We?" section at the following link several times. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about/about.s Here's what I get out of that, let us know what's off base...
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Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 410 |
Maybe useless stats: According to BoincStats, only 712 WCG volunteers had any credits for the last day. That tells a lot about how little work that is sent out during this test period. So, the chance of getting any tasks at all, is slim to none, at the moment. Unless you have an entire computer farm of course. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2676 |
Maybe useless stats: I suspect useless stats. I have been able to get ARP work from WCG without issue. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5124 |
I haven't been getting any for GPUs. I'm thinking of mothballing the GPUs at the end of next month, when the next electricity price hike hits in the UK. That'll free a lot of cores for CPU work, so I might have another look then. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 410 |
No OPNG tasks here either, only OPN1, even though Cyclops posted yesterday: "We'll likely send out more workunits now that we fixed a minor issue with the OPNG workunits which might be elaborated upon in a future forum post." https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,44139_offset,120#674689 So, I guess the OPNG issue isn't fixed yet after all. Edit: And when it comes to the high electricity cost nowadays, I have ordered one of these. I'll be able to sell electricity to all my neighbours too. Problem solved, no more electricity bills Yeah, sure I have ordered it :-) |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
Here's a list of resolved and unresolved issues dated 8/9/22. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,44246 |
Send message Joined: 7 Apr 13 Posts: 64 |
Excerpts from an update posted early this morning. We have taken additional measures to increase the quantity of WUs we can send out, and we have been able to increase the quantity of WUs in flight at any given time. Volunteers should see this reflected on their devices now, and perhaps even over this past week. [/quote] |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5124 |
I have certainly seen a vastly increased supply of WUs in the last 30 hours, but the network congestion - especially on task data file downloads - is still an inhibiting factor. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2676 |
I have certainly seen a vastly increased supply of WUs in the last 30 hours, but the network congestion - especially on task data file downloads - is still an inhibiting factor. Yes. even on my bored band connection, downloads very slow compared with other projects. Repeated clicking of, "retry now" has after the best part of two and a half hours on and off just got four ARP tasks running. One file for a fifth is still being stubborn and refusing to download. I don't know if this is related but the tasks didn't show up in the Tasks tab till quite a few files had downloaded whereas with other projects they seem to appear at once. Is that just because I don't see the initial small files downloading when they appear at once? |
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