I guess we didn't set expectations quite as clearly as we should have. For that I apologize:

1) We never expected the grid to continue to operate at 100% through the migration. We will consider it a success if we get back to about 96-98% of our previous power by this Thursday. As of this morning we are at around 92% of the previous output of the grid (unfortunately the Clean Energy project issues are impacting the grid right now as well). By the end of January we hope that we hit an all time output record.

2) The IP address migration takes time, but it will resolve itself on its own. If you want to pick up the new IP address immediately, then restart your BOINC client.

3) This migration was necessary. We were on old versions of operating systems, middleware, etc. The servers were struggling to keep up with the load. We were making workunits longer and longer to reduce the load on the servers. Now that we are in the new environment we are able to shorten the workunit lengths. The first project that you will see this on is Rice where the workunits are going to start being 6 hours long (although it might take a bit for the shorter workunits to be sent out). Other projects will follow.

If this migration wasn't necessary, we wouldn't have done it. However, it was necessary. Things are running roughly four times faster than in the previous environment. We have more bandwidth to the internet. The servers are set up so that we can expand effectively as needed to in the future (in particular the database servers were purchased with the intent to add significantly more memory to them as needed in the future). This is a one time change that prepares us to grow for the next many years. I am personally looking forward to hitting 500 years/day and then 1000 years/day with all of your help. We have some great new projects coming in 2009 and we are looking forward to getting them out there.

See http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=24096