Posts by Grumpy Swede

41) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112884)
Posted 11 Oct 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Still SNAFU of course.
42) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112871)
Posted 10 Oct 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Yeah well, at least the BOINC part of WCG is still working.
43) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112869)
Posted 10 Oct 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Let's see if this is just another short server hiccup.
44) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112818)
Posted 6 Oct 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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A long Thanksgiviing weekend in Canada in front of us, and only 2 hours after the team went home, the WCG website came crashing down.
The BOINC part of the system still works though, but who knows for how long.

Forum page now gives these errors:

SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /forums/wcg/listrecentthreads has not been defined.

SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle www.worldcommunitygrid.org:443 has not been defined.

All other pages, the usual:

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

Edit, added: And the site back again, some 20 minutes later.
45) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112789)
Posted 2 Oct 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Congratulations Jord !!
46) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112761)
Posted 27 Sep 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Well, that certainly wasn't a simple one hour firmware update.

However:

Finally, the "Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable" error in BOINC is gone, but now every request
for new work is instead followed by the "Tasks are committed to other platforms" response.
Also the WCG "results" page is no longer bogged down in molasses. It does now return the results pretty quick.
When it comes to the device profile changes, they still do not propagate to BOINC.
The validators have finally woken up, and begun slowly but steadily to validate finished work
47) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112642)
Posted 5 Sep 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Communications from the WCG team, is getting worse than before, (if that is even possible).
48) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 112529)
Posted 15 Aug 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Time for a post.
Last slumbering post was 40 days ago.
49) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112528)
Posted 14 Aug 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Tomorrow is Friday again. Let's see if my suspicions about how they handle sending out "new" tasks during weekends proves correct.
Did someone make a mistake? My job-cache was still full after a weekend away.
There was no new tasks at all sent out over the weekend. New work (MCM _0 and_1 for example) stopped Friday just before 17:00 hours
Toronto time. My last new MCM was Friday 19:57:07 UTC. New SCC work lasted a bit longer. After that it was only resends going out, until
even those dried up on Saturday. New MCM work dried up almost at the same time as the WCG team went home for the weekend.

However relatively early Monday, they started to send out lots of new work. There's plenty of complaints in many threads on the WCG
forum that nobody got any new tasks over the weekend. Also resends were very scarce this weekend. Most peoples caches became
totally dry.
50) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112518)
Posted 10 Aug 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Update: 2023-08-10 Update (External stats update)

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,45520

2023-08-10 Update (External stats update)
We are aware that the external stats download has been unavailable since the outage we experienced on July 21st. Our tech team has been investigating the issue and discovered and resolved a bug in the script that resulted in a missing parent stats directory. No stats have been lost. We continue to monitor this issue to ensure that it does not reoccur. Please let us know if you continue to experience any issues accessing the external stats download.

Thanks for your support and understanding. Please leave any questions or comments about this issue in this thread for us to answer.

The stats export page can be found here: https://download.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/stats/
51) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112517)
Posted 10 Aug 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Yeah well. Over 20 days since the last stats export.

Last update user XML 2023-07-21 12:24:30 UTC (20 days 01:04:41 old)
Last update host XML 2023-07-21 12:24:30 UTC (20 days 01:04:41 old)
Last update team XML 2023-07-21 12:24:30 UTC (20 days 01:04:41 old)
52) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112514)
Posted 10 Aug 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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If the WCG team would tell us, why last weekend was totally dry of "new" work, and that only resends were available, it would leave no room for speculations.
However, not a word so far this week, about that.

Tomorrow is Friday again. Let's see if my suspicions about how they handle sending out "new" tasks during weekends proves correct.
53) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112502)
Posted 7 Aug 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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The IBM setup of WCG, is way too complicated for this small and inexperienced Krembil/Jurisica team. They really should take WCG down, and install a "simple" vanilla BOINC system, without all the bells and whistles, which they obviously are not capable of handling.

Then they could come back, and I'm sure WCG would work better. Sure, the original BOINC system, doesn't have the "fancy" webpages, with all stuff on it, but they would probably be able to handle it better than the IBM relatively complicated setup.
54) Message boards : The Lounge : Massive questions about Einstein@home I was a member there for 12 years now I am a target (Message 112475)
Posted 6 Aug 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Philosopher8659, from the Seti@home board ??
55) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112460)
Posted 6 Aug 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Simply the new normal. WCG bone dry on weekends, and will stay that way until sometime on Monday.
56) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112416)
Posted 31 Jul 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Update from WCG. Let's see how true that is, and how long it takes before another issue comes up.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,45481

"Our tech team has made adjustments to the BOINC configuration and the issue we were experiencing with MCM1 work units has now been resolved.

WCG Team"
57) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not downloading; device doesn't show (Message 112412)
Posted 30 Jul 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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And the missing devices are a well known problem with WCG, since many months now.
It's discussed in many threads on the WCG forum. I suggest that you post about your problem (and the device ID) in this
WCG forum thread. The WCG techs, can then manually add your missing device:

Missing Devices in My Contribution


Edit, added: If the missing device is totally new to WCG, it can take up to a week before it shows up. So, wait a week or so, and if it hasn't shown up by then, use the above forum link, and post about your issue.
58) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112398)
Posted 28 Jul 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Just a few MCM1 resends here, from time to time. Still upload issues, but they can be overcome.
59) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112384)
Posted 26 Jul 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Edit: misconfigured, or they need the "Graham" system, which is still closed down for the planned outage.
Two of my open pandemics tasks have completed so far. However the uploads aren't working. No great surprise there!

That can be solved with a batch file (or similar on Linux) running the command "boinccmd.exe --network_available", every for example 15 seconds.
60) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 112382)
Posted 26 Jul 2023 by Grumpy Swede
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Bit of a shock. Just got a bunch of Open Pandemic tasks.

Every OPNG task runs for just seconds, and becomes invalid. They're all broken tasks. The problem is all over the WCG forum, and no reacton from the team (as usual).
They just keep on sending out broken OPNG tasks.

Edit: misconfigured, or they need the "Graham" system, which is still closed down for the planned outage.


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