• IBM transferred WCG assets to Krembil Research Institute, part of the Canadian University Health Network (UHN).
  
• UHN has Canada’s largest hospital-based research program, comprising four major teaching hospitals (Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and The Michener Institute of Education).
  
• Jurisica Lab is connected to the Toronto Western Hospital and the hospital’s research arm, the Krembil Research Institute; a non-profit academic biomedical research institute.
  
• Therefore WCG moved from IBM to two departments within one hospital in Canada.
  
• Jurisca Lab appears to be associated mostly with the Mapping Cancer Markers Project. Unclear how they work with Krembil or how both operate within all the competing priorities of a teaching hospital.
  
• Grumpy Swede indicates Jurisica Lab may be on their own...
  
• Conclusion: Not surprising we are seeing many problems...
  

Dear volunteers,

Over the past week, we entered a new stage of our testing phase where we gave a few work units to our volunteers to crunch. The goal was to see if any unforeseen errors occurred, which we were able to find thanks to the feedback of our volunteers. For specific questions you may have on the limited work units, check this thread on our forums.

Here’s a quick update from our tech team:

We have been working to assess how well the system responds to load and whether configuration is correct. As many have noted on the forums, there are some issues with the BOINC backend configuration. Users will have noticed off-putting notices in the BOINC manager about incorrect project URLs and attaching twice to the same project. We are aware of these issues and nearing a resolution.

In addition, we are working to resolve the lack of synchronization between the website profile page and the BOINC manager. We are also working to fix a blocking issue with the GPU work units for Open Pandemics. Once this is resolved, we should be able to increase the quantity of work units we can send out to volunteers.

Our backlog of non-blocking issues has continued to grow as we observe load on the system, but overall we are nearing a stable state of affairs and look forward to updating users with statistics and more details as we continue the roll out of our production system.

Thanks for understanding and stay tuned for more updates, coming soon!

Sincerely,
The World Community Grid team

7/13/22
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=773

DENIS@home: Today is the day // Hoy es el día
The tasks are coming!
We have finished the work on time and now you visit the new version of the website. We will be updating and adding things. Today we are also testing a newsletter. You are many people, so it still takes a while to reach you (more than 3000 e-mails sent now). We are going to go little by little to verify that everything works correctly and to avoid saturating the server.

Thank you so much!

Best,
Jesús.

Dear users,

With a little delay compared to our original idea, next Thursday, July 7th, we will relaunch the DENIS project.

Over the next few days we will be updating the website and some features, so it is possible that some things may temporarily malfunction. When all the modifications have been completed we will notify you. If you see a bug before that warning, don’t worry about what might go wrong. However, if something generates doubts, you can ask us in the forums.

Thank you all for your patience.

All the best,
Jesus.

6/28/22
https://denis.usj.es/en_US/news/official-relaunch-of-the-project-relanzamiento-oficial-del-proyecto/

Dear Volunteers,
We have been working hard to enable the restart of the WCG. As anyone who has experienced this journey with us knows, it has been a long and rocky road. Unfortunately, our testing uncovered unforeseen bugs and prevented us from discussing much of our day-to-day work with you. In this update, we wish to give some insight into some of the technical difficulties and new methods of communication we have been working on.

...To clarify, while the existing users would see all their past contributions and stats, forums, and web content, we are facing issues with the account registration process for new volunteers. By our best estimate, this issue and others related to user experience on the WCG website should be fixed by early next week.
...
6/3/22
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/news/0603

WCG is almost ready to restart.
QA testing has finally successfully finished and all the bugs have been resolved. Production environment is being tested right now. Considering the unexpected issues we ran into with the QA system, we prefer to test it a couple of days further. The website and forum are ready to be relaunched, the production environment is successfully querying BOINC locally and we are going to restart BOINC slowly in the next few days. We will provide further details early next week.



5/23/22
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/news/0522

... IBM’s extended support will end on March 2, 2022.
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/news/2

Corona will be gone in a week or 3.
- ProDigit 3/20/20