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WCGAdmin
World Community Grid Admin Joined: Jun 9, 2020 Post Count: 171 Status: Offline |
There will be an extended WCG downtime from December 7th, 2024 to January 3rd, 2025.
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=818 |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12408 Status: Recently Active Project Badges: 
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No New Tasks set and all units finished and retturned.
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adrianxw
Senior Cruncher Denmark Joined: Apr 13, 2008 Post Count: 192 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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... and the new units that were recently sent, completed and uploaded, but will not report.
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Freewill
Cruncher United States Joined: Mar 28, 2006 Post Count: 41 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The deadlines were extended and they should report soon. See the operational status tab at this link:
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html Roger |
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ibeeby
Cruncher Ireland Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There was almost no real notice of this and now it seems that the re-start is delayed.
While there may be a good reason for the shutdown I might point out that having spent extra effort to ensure that my systems stayed up over the break I am frustrated to find that not only was this pointless but in addition they have still not re-started doing work. I am afraid that I am questioning my further contribution. |
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Freewill
Cruncher United States Joined: Mar 28, 2006 Post Count: 41 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I have been critical of WCG's lack of communication in the past. However, in this case, they did clearly post a notice the system would be down for almost a month. It is the first post in this thread. Yes, they are a week late on the restart from original estimate, which at this point should not be a surprise.
I am finding the Jurisica Lab link the best source for operational status. I'm looking forward to resuming crunching for WCG projects. Meanwhile, there are several other projects benefiting from my fleet. |
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ibeeby
Cruncher Ireland Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Fair enough - there was a notice published, I accept that. However, it was posted on a forum rather than by pushing to the application - my push application was received a day before the outage commenced which I hardly regard as notice. Frankly given that there was not even a placeholder web page in place I formed the view that WCG had shut for good.
I don't spend all of my time looking at the WCG forum - this is only the second time I have looked at it and I have been a contributor for many years. Its just a matter of common courtesy. Ian |
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Bryn Mawr
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 26, 2018 Post Count: 345 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There was almost no real notice of this and now it seems that the re-start is delayed. While there may be a good reason for the shutdown I might point out that having spent extra effort to ensure that my systems stayed up over the break I am frustrated to find that not only was this pointless but in addition they have still not re-started doing work. I am afraid that I am questioning my further contribution. Why, given that the outage was not of Krembil’s doing and the delay in the restart is also outwith their control? Krembil are an academic institution, part of the University of Toronto, and have little option but to use the SHared Academic Research Computer NETwork and data centre - it was SHARCNET that have let Krembil down, not Krembil letting you down. |
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1951 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There was almost no real notice of this and now it seems that the re-start is delayed. Sorry, but your are completely wrong here.While there may be a good reason for the shutdown I might point out that having spent extra effort to ensure that my systems stayed up over the break I am frustrated to find that not only was this pointless but in addition they have still not re-started doing work. I am afraid that I am questioning my further contribution. Just as a couple others who already responded, I have been very vocal about the communication shortcomings of WCG, but this outage WAS announced for quite some time in advance. Everyone should have known this. The only thing that was on rather short notice was that they would shut down a day or two earlier than originally planned. But again, this was announced... Ralf  [Edit 1 times, last edit by TPCBF at Jan 10, 2025 5:43:36 PM] |
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