Didactylos,

I'm not sure why there were these failures to connect. Please note that they seem to correct themselves.

It may simply be that there are intermittent failures to connect.

Please see below a subset of the "daemon" log; then the "gui" log:
Also note the timestamps; it appears the failure to connect logs for the daemon were proceeded with downloads in the gui log.

p.s. Thanks for the help...

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26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.30 for windows_intelx86
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.17.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Executing as a daemon
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] BOINC is running as a service and as a non-system user.
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] No application graphics will be available.
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 6 Stepping 4]
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Memory: 1013.91 MB physical, 2.38 GB virtual
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Disk: 70.74 GB total, 66.04 GB free
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Local time is UTC -6 hours
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 506.96MB
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 912.52MB
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
26-Feb-2008 12:07:25 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] Fetching scheduler list
26-Feb-2008 12:07:57 [---] Benchmark results:
26-Feb-2008 12:07:57 [---] Number of CPUs: 2
26-Feb-2008 12:07:57 [---] 1730 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
26-Feb-2008 12:07:57 [---] 2727 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
26-Feb-2008 12:23:31 [---] Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
26-Feb-2008 12:23:46 [---] Fetching configuration file from http://climateprediction.net/get_project_config.php
26-Feb-2008 12:28:48 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
26-Feb-2008 12:28:49 [---] Access to reference site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration.
26-Feb-2008 14:14:31 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] Fetching scheduler list

[02/26/08 12:16:05] TRACE [996]: RPC_CLIENT::init boinc_socket returned 488
[02/26/08 12:16:05] TRACE [996]: RPC_CLIENT::init connect returned -1
[02/26/08 12:16:05] TRACE [996]: RPC_CLIENT::init attempting connect
[02/26/08 12:16:06] TRACE [996]: RPC_CLIENT::init_poll sock = 488
[02/26/08 12:16:06] TRACE [996]: RPC_CLIENT::init_poll connected to port 31416
[02/26/08 12:16:06] TRACE [996]: CAN'T FIND PROJECT http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

Hi all, I originally posted the question.

We managed to figure it out and we now have over 500 devices registered. Yesterday the Clemson School of Computing team was first contributor in the US (over 24hours).

We used the condor system (www.cs.wisc.edu/condor) and used the backfill option to run the BOINC client.

I will post some detailed instructions if people are interested.

-sebastien goasguen (for clemsontiger :) )