"GeorgeM, the machine that holds the data that you download, decided that it was time to verify that the RAID array is in good shape. That will slow down disk access until the verify procedure is complete. The main effect is slowing down the rate at which work can be created. It's likely that we'll run out of work in the next hour or so. Things should recover automatically when it's done." (30 Jan 2019, 3:33:02 UTC)

Hi everyone, my name is Sebastian, in the company I work we recently had an attack of ransomware CRYSIS DHARMA .BIT that have no master key release yet and while I was researching about it i found out that there are lots of ppl who suffer the same problem without any solution than paying the ransom.

As far as I could found, cracking a crypto key by brute force is all about computing power, an incredible computing power unavailable nowadays for anyone, unless you have some quantum computer, but unavailable doesnt means impossible.

So this idea came to my mind, what if we can use the computing power of 1000's of computers to crack these ransomwares? And BOINC came to my mind.

I have been reading about BOINC and how to create new projects and even if I dont think I could do it by myself, it seems to be "possible" to create a project for this, to run some kind of decrypter to get the master keys for any ransomware and I guess there would be a lot of ppl interested in supporting this with their own computers.


So havent anyone thought this could be done or Im missing something?

We are updating the storage system on our servers on Tuesday, January 8, beginning at 15:00 UTC. We will be applying an important storage system update to our servers (and) anticipate that the work will take approximately four hours.

Because of the Christmas and New Years Day holidays, our weekly outage will be on Wednesday rather than the normal Tuesday both this week and next.

We are expanding the storage for one of our databases on Monday, December 10, starting at 15:00 UTC.

We will be expanding the storage for one of our databases on Monday, December 10, beginning at 15:00 UTC. We anticipate that the work will take approximately one hour.

During some of this time, volunteers will not be able to upload or download new work, and some parts of the website will not be accessible.

Project just went down.
Very early.
Good, or bad?

Someone has been burning the midnight oil at Berkeley =:)

Given that this sort of pattern is "the norm" these days I think it may actually be an automated process - once the manual stuff has been done a cron job takes over and the databases and servers gradually come back to life in the correct sequence. Why sit in an empty lab (or wind up the ones other half by playing with your laptop) while watching for a massive task to complete so you can start the next when the computer can do it for you?

I haven't got new WUs since it's been back...

Just started really flowing in the last 15 minutes or so, at least on 3 of 4 crunchers here.

Now shows as Up .

Website Name:
universeathome.plURL Checked:
230.32 ms.Response Time:
More than a week agoLast Down:
UP
Universeathome.pl is UP and reachable by us.

Bill F
Dallas TX

Master database queries/second 598
Results ready to send 0 12,633 691,609 3h
Current result creation rate ** 0/sec 0/sec 0.1788/sec 5m
gbt splitters Not Running
pfb splitters Not Running
ap splitters Running

It's back, now the project is to report tasks and get new work.

I have a couple of data files that are ready to report and upload, but haven't been able to do so in the last couple of days, for Universe@Home.
I keep getting the Communication deferred. I would like to be able to upload those files soon, before the 11/25/18 deadline.

Is there an ETA or update on when the servers will be back in communication?

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer at age 65

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-dies-of-cancer-at-age-65.html

I'd just finished a pigeon-update post, with pictures and everything that I'd uploaded and it vanished. I didn't have the links saved which was a bit stupid, but I was tired so I'm going to use that as my excuse. I don't know if I can be bothered to reconstruct it all now. I haven't been back since either. I might later, I don't know.

We will be applying an important operating system update to our
servers on Thursday, October 11, beginning at 14:00 UTC. We anticipate
that the work will take approximately four hours.

During some of this time, volunteers will not be able to upload or download new
work, and the website will not be accessible.

Volunteers will not need to take any particular action, as your devices will
automatically retry their connections after the maintenance work is completed.

It seems to be an unannounced/unexpected outage. Hopefully the servers will be up before the end of the day (and before the week-end)...

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org -- is it down. ETA??
Thanks, Jay

www.worldcommunitygrid.org -- is it down. ETA??
Thanks, Jay