Is it September yet?

We were told nothing would be done until the change to zero redundancy was complete. The batch of large FAAH units delayed that, which had a knock-on effect.

Actually it might just be that you want to know. I am prepared to wait to let the responsible people who are managing WCG to make management decisions about the system. They are far more qualified to know the priorities that need to be solved. You have no idea on the time required to solve any single issue they have on their plate. The CAs and Techs do not work for us, so cut them some slack. We are working for the scientists. Crunch on

You are correct that there is no news on it currently. It is high on the list and I get to report twice a week to the project PM that no progress has been made. Here are a few things that have happened meanwhile:

Disk Failure - we are actually still dealing with this on the backend. There was some damaged to a lot of the batches that are ready to be loaded into BOINC and we are working through fixing them (as well as flat out identifying what needs fixing as well). We currently only have about a 16-24 hours supply of work ready to send (we are continually adding more, but prior to the disk failure we usually had a queue of 14-21 days of work ready to load and send). We hope to be getting back to normal by end of week.

We just finished a rule for the IBM internal software management system that will locate all remaining computers within IBM that were never migrated from the UD agent to BOINC. It will do the migration for those users automatically. All of these migrated computers will be under the 'IBM' id so watch for that id to go up in the charts over the next two months.

There is a new release of the website that will be released today or tomorrow that will provide a few features - including the ability to see your contribution by project.

Additionally, we are working toward adopting the BOINC 6.2 client. There are some key features of the new version that are of key interest to us. One of the key ones is that the overall architecture changes of the client will finally let IBM employees be able to see the graphics on the screen saver (since most non-IBM folks aren't aware of this, the windows security implementation and previous BOINC graphics implementation meant that if you check the box 'On resume, password protect' for the screen saver, then in many cases, the research project graphics could not be displayed). This problem is resolved with BOINC 6.2 and is thus very important for us.

All of this is just to say that we are working on the stats conversion. When we have it working in development, we will publish an official date for the migration. This will let us publish a firm date.