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Bryn Mawr
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 26, 2018 Post Count: 346 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Why can't UNH/Krembil spare some hardware and loan 1 or 2 server tech folks for a few days to get it running with WCG? Somebody's gonna catch on it's a month (at the rate it's going) that nothings been accomplished and its gonna be egg on their face. It's good practice and common knowledge among people who work in the IT field : spares. Concerning the hysterical behaviour following the outage. I'd say people had good stats, badges, streaks, etc. and loses every possibilities to improve that. As I've always thought and said : we are here to crunch numbers, we enjoy it. Glad it helps but ... yeah, badges and stuff. The fact that WCG comes and goes doesn't help. There has been more down than up and people supporting the project are fed up. And it’s common knowledge in academia, money (or lack of it). The university cannot afford to keep that level of spare parts. As to the stats, badges and streaks - we’ve been told, repeatedly, that these will be preserved during this period of disruption (ok, anarchy 🙂) and restored when the project is declared live again. |
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Jean-David Beyer
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 2, 2007 Post Count: 339 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You hope for work, and you rely upon that hope. Good for you. Hope is Disappointment deferred.  |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7697 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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and when, pretty inevitably, one catches a crab for a few days or weeks, Nice rowing reference. Could have happened once or twice in my career. Thanks for putting it in. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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micropro-be
Cruncher Joined: Dec 9, 2019 Post Count: 10 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Why can't UNH/Krembil spare some hardware and loan 1 or 2 server tech folks for a few days to get it running with WCG? Somebody's gonna catch on it's a month (at the rate it's going) that nothings been accomplished and its gonna be egg on their face. It's good practice and common knowledge among people who work in the IT field : spares. Concerning the hysterical behaviour following the outage. I'd say people had good stats, badges, streaks, etc. and loses every possibilities to improve that. As I've always thought and said : we are here to crunch numbers, we enjoy it. Glad it helps but ... yeah, badges and stuff. The fact that WCG comes and goes doesn't help. There has been more down than up and people supporting the project are fed up. And it’s common knowledge in academia, money (or lack of it). The university cannot afford to keep that level of spare parts. As to the stats, badges and streaks - we’ve been told, repeatedly, that these will be preserved during this period of disruption (ok, anarchy 🙂) and restored when the project is declared live again. That's a relief for the majority as far as the badges etc. are concerned. As for the academia field... I know it well. Lots of people are in need for money and it reaches the point where you have to ask an authorisation for the university to by new pencils (not a joke). So... in terme of pencil... must be a lot of if you put it in the balance with an HDD. Despite what I've said since the beginning. I truly desire WCG to go on smoothly enough with enought the WUs given to crunch. It's a project I still like.  |
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Sgt.Joe
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it reaches the point where you have to ask an authorisation for the university to by new pencils (not a joke). There are tightwad organizations and then there are places where penny wise and pound foolish are hallowed mottoes. I once worked for an organization where the forms for requesting just about anything were in a locked cabinet which to my untrained eye appeared not to have been opened in recent history. I was advised, as the new guy, just to not even broach the subject. My tenure there lasted only long enough to find something different, it did not even have to be better. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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PowerFactor
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There are tightwad organizations and then there are places where penny wise and pound foolish are hallowed mottoes. I once worked for an organization where the forms for requesting just about anything were in a locked cabinet which to my untrained eye appeared not to have been opened in recent history. I was advised, as the new guy, just to not even broach the subject. My tenure there lasted only long enough to find something different, it did not even have to be better. Cheers Now that's hilarious! Makes me wonder how they stayed operational.  |
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remanco
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Well, let's get back to the basics.... this tread was created form them to " If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in this thread for us to answer. " Well since no answers was given already..... here my question. As of Today, March 21st. What is the status?
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1957 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, let's get back to the basics.... this tread was created form them to " If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in this thread for us to answer. " Well since no answers was given already..... here my question. As of Today, March 21st. What is the status? W.I.P.Thanks! Sylvain B.  |
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1168 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, let's get back to the basics.... this tread was created form them to " If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in this thread for us to answer. " Well since no answers was given already..... here my question. As of Today, March 21st. What is the status? W.I.P.Thanks! Sylvain B. Or possibly R.I.P. 
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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phillipspencer
Advanced Cruncher France Joined: Apr 9, 2015 Post Count: 71 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, let's get back to the basics.... this tread was created form them to " If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in this thread for us to answer. " Well since no answers was given already..... here my question. As of Today, March 21st. What is the status? Thanks! Sylvain B. I think this thread's dead (in terms of news, that is!) See the 20th March thread for (slightly) more up-to-date information. |
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