Do I need to call Cypher for him to try decrypt the OP's message? Nah, I'll probably be overwhelmed by what I would hear. Ignorance is bliss and that turkey wouldn't taste that good otherwise.

I'd speculate that the HCC-scientists got too much of a good thing (enthusiastic response for GPU use from WCG-crunchers), that the only logical thing to do next, is to take stock of how they (including WCG higher-management) have used the GPU-power, and see if there may have been some wastage or inefficiencies somewhere in the GPU-usage pipe from the crunchers to the actual use of the results. While at it, might as well take another look at allocation. I can imagine that the HCC-project have deprived other WCG-projects of their share of the cruncher-compute-cycles, and that too needs to be addressed. We can't have a rising star at the cost of all others -- this is not sustainable. Until we get another WCG-project that is GPU-aware to compete with HCC-GPU, we are left with a lone star project that dominates the GPU-use landscape at WCG. Over a nice turkey would be a good time to take stock of all these concerns, indeed -- and that means: a time-out was called by team WCG.
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I just heard about it and personally I think it's bad public relations...especially for people who donate their time, equipment and electricity for free.

You guys start a new gpu project, get everyone all excited and with practically no notice, you suddenly announce that you are running out of work...Say what??...GEES!!!

Not necessarily me, because I only bought 2 used GPU's, but some people have spent thousands for equipment upgrades just for this purpose.

You folks knew work was running low for a long time and made no advance effort to prevent the problem. That spells incompetence.

Not only that, but you don't even have the common courtesy to provide a time-frame for the unit outage...so let's add arrogance to the list.

I don't know what all this nice-guy stuff is about, because you should be told that some of us are not only disapointed, but also quite angry.

Yeah, we don't need any more anger on the interwebs, so please remove your angry wig.

Everyone is still groping a bit for the right balance of processes and systems, and everyone understands that a lot of folks are volunteering a lot of resources. However, while we all feel a bit frustrated, let's maintain some perspective - in six months or a year when GPU work units are a normal part of most projects at WCG, we'll laugh about these little technical bumps .... but the anger expressed (especially in forums that linger for years) will be remembered, and not fondly.

Chillax, have a beer, and we'll see what Monday brings.

To those complaining

No one made you go and buy new hardware for this one specific project which you knew was going to be short-lived.

In fact, before the gpu project even started I remember people from wcg discouraged buying new hardware specifically for one project.

Its not the end of the world or even the end of the project. Cheer up.

This isn't the first time that a WCG project has temporarily run out of work (okay - a first for a GPU based project, granted), although I'm sure that everyone is busily working behind the scenes (as always) to get things back on track.

As it is the very first GPU project on WCG, I'm sure that there were quite a few surprised people as to the speed the HCC WU buffer was gobbled up - and I'm sure that, lessons will be learnt.

All that's required, is patience and I'm sure that things'll get back up and running ASAP.