They're currently doing some upgrade work on them. No doubt, uplinger will post back when complete... See the thread Possible Server Outage July 13, 2010 at 16:30:00 UTC

Things should be back to normal...please post here if you have any continued issues.

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,29345 <-- link to known issues post

Thanks,
-Uplinger

I also maintain a small WU cache (0.2 days) and ran out of WCG work on one of my quads during the maintenance cycle but things appear to be back to normal as 0f 0039 hrs UTC. All pending uploads completed okay and I received new work for all cores..

Edit: corrected time from 12 hours off.

rwremote,
After your post I also noticed my cache didn't have any extra WU's waiting to work so I temporarily increased it from 0.2 to 0.7 and got the extra work. If you are still within your window of communication, maybe you should temporarily up your cache to a day to get you through the dry spell then put it back to your usual number.

Don't think 16:30 UTC is an ideal time to start these update runs, particular if snags develop (though there will be overarching reasons to run it this time). I had set my clients to a scheduled reconnect at 23:00 UTC (that's my 01:00am CEST) and when they did, they were still told to back off and only managed to get the last CEP2 job up at 23:40. As many would not have set a scheduled networking, backoff times will have been significant to go beyond 00:00 UTC, the effect translated into a daily stats of 218 CPU years instead of an anticipated 290. Doubt if a remaining hour would have allowed uploads worth 70+ CPU years worth of work. Just a thought to maybe change the order to allow more EOD time for task complete reporting if it has to be so late in the day.

Thoughts of a stats addict of course :D

Cache, well I ride on 0.9 days Additional buffer, with connect set to 0.00 (perm connect when the network schedule activity menu setting is not on). Bridges most all outages.