In reply to Dave's message of 19 Nov 2024:

Don't know how long it will last but my uploads are now going through at the maximum rate of my bored band. (100KB/s between 2 uploads.) Did someone kick something or did the wind change direction?

Nothing to do with the weather or kicking a server. Much simpler explanation - Currently no ARP tasks so the servers can rest and put their feet up for a while!

mvnForum Fatal Error Message : Cannot init system. Reason : Assertion in ForumUserServlet.

Edit: Forums may be down but MCM tasks still downloading on my phone.

In reply to Dave's message of 26 Nov 2024:

mvnForum Fatal Error Message : Cannot init system. Reason : Assertion in ForumUserServlet.

Edit: Forums may be down but MCM tasks still downloading on my phone.

Yes, the forum is dead, but the rest of the website is working, as well the BOINC part of WCG.
I mailed the team, in in case they haven't noticed the issue yet.

Forum is back now.

System error
World Community Grid is currently experiencing an unexpected error. Please check Facebook or Twitter for more information.

And for the forum:
Error 500: javax.servlet.ServletException: net.myvietnam.mvncore.exception.DatabaseException: Error executing SQL in MVNForumPermissionWebHelper.getPermissionsForGroupGuest.

WCG website is still very dead. However the BOINC part is still working.

The fora are back up.

Cross posted from the World Community Grid forum:
MONTH LONG OUTAGE SOON December 9, 2024
EDIT TO ADD UPDATED DATES:

The WCG shutdown date has been moved up from December 9th, 2024 to December 7th, 2024. We were informed by email on November 21st, to shutdown by December 9th because there would be no cooling by that date. Hosting earlier this week asked us to bump the date up to the 7th.
We have determined it is not feasible to migrate the BOINC infrastructure to another site during downtime, and we are still waiting to hear back from UHN personnel who manage our DNS records to see when we can switch the website and forums over to the alternate site. If we do hear back, this will take place between now and December 6th, 2024.
As users pointed out in the forums, it did not really make sense to start pushing new ARP1 workunits given the imminent downtime, and we will stop producing new MCM1 workunits tomorrow to hopefully give the bulk of outstanding workunits a chance to be uploaded. When we power down, after all traffic to the upload servers is stopped, deadlines for outstanding workunits will be extended to cover the downtime.
With the improvements to the cloud environment, we have been informed that the issue with the network agents in our cloud environment causing the website and forums database instance to become inaccessible on the network until hosting intervenes (cause of this past weekend's outage and many previous outages), will be fixed.

Original post below ---

- IMPORTANT: We have been notified of an extended downtime at SHARCNET facility for construction lasting from December 9th, 2024, to January 3rd, 2025. There will be no power and no cooling during this time. We are exploring temporary migration to another site. We will provide an update on what downtime if any can be expected to start on December 9th, 2024. Overall, this upgrade should provide further improvements to the WCG capacity.
- Bandwidth has been improved thanks to hosting staff at SHARCNET. In addition, we have more and better hardware devoted to handling downloads and uploads, and a more competent load balancer.
- ARP1 will resume in limited quantities over the next few days. We will make an effort to focus on extremes as suggested in the forums and test the imposed rate limits on workunit production as well as total bandwidth of all clients and number of connections per client for ARP1 file transfer specifically.
- Forums were down earlier today for an extended period, they are back up now and we apologize for the slow response.

and we are still waiting to hear back from UHN personnel who manage our DNS records to see when we can switch the website and forums over to the alternate site.

Certainly fora are down now. The big question is whether they were told they couldn't be switched or they could and it failed!

So... I guess I'm not the only one with a page of Uploading tasks that won't upload for a month if we're very very lucky. Are people keeping them in the hope that they will provide valid research or are people aborting them? Can one abort them, anyway - as there is no communication with the servers.
All my projects seem to be offline at the moment. I would love European projects either climate or medical related. Sorry, I'm not into hypothetical maths and physics... Any suggestions?

I would keep tasks, they will upload once WCG is back up.

Other projects to consider include Rosetta, SiDock and DENIS (when they have work, expected soon).

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Paul.