Thank you - unfortunately - UHN Foundation does not generate US tax credits at this point. As strange as it is - PMH Foundation does - we continue to try to find a way how we could convince UHN F to implement such possibility.

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igor

Krembil's name is all over the place in regards to WCG for the last 18 months. But according to Dr.Jurisica, they don't do anything for WCG in return...


Ralf

Thank you KerSamson - question #1 is tricky for me to answer - but as described, IBM never pledged to run the WCG forever.

Facing the challenge that WCG would not exist beyond 2021 - we were looking for various options to find the minimum setup we can dedicate to the backend, and if/how we could repurpose existing staff to learn and run WCG.

It is not always true that cost relates to quality - but even if you buy a new equipment, there is a big difference in price for 9-5 x 5 service vs 24/7. Unless we find a partner that would contribute some of this service, i doubt we will be able to afford it anytime soon. It is also true that IBM had relatively small full time staff - but they also "outsourced"
many parts (including Blue Cloud, helpdesk, etc) to other groups within the organization - and that also crossing multiple time zones - it was relatively easy to have 24.7 coverage. Academic labs do not run 24/7 (except in some special cases for some specific experiment - but not all the time).

Thank you Sgt.Joe - we indeed have a few champions who are helping us - and several have not only great experience from sales - but also good contacts. A few current leads are promising - but the more we try, and the more diversified it is, thanks to broad links through volunteers, the higher the chance we succeed. It may not be one "super" partner, maybe we will have a group of them - some contributing equipment, services, ...

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igor

I have been contributing to WCG since 2009. It's sad to see its current state. Even before the RAID bus failure it's doubtful that WCG even ran at 10% capacity of its pre-Krembil days under IBM.

With a farm of machines I was easily spending $5+ per day on electricity already at the peak. It's not a monetary issue from where I stand. But would I donate $5 to UNH/Krembil?

NO - because since UNH/Krembil took over WCG we seen over a year of poor track record and frankly incompetence at running WCG since day 1. It's time to call a spade a spade. Krembil logos ought to be scrubbed from the website. They want publicity and only the upside benefit of taking over WCG. However when things go wrong it turns out they don't provide support and hold no responsibility. Have you no shame?

I've tried to keep quiet or say only encouraging things in the past, but it seems taking such an attitude has only resulted in this sad state of affairs. Just my 2 pence as a very disappointed veteran member.