This is a long-term effect that I have noted before. It could be that they have reached the limit of what they can reasonably do. With the declining cost of silicon solar cells, there may not be much market space left for the organic cells. If Harvard wants to present their case I would listen, but they have not chosen to do so in some time, which says something, to me at least.

And how are we supposed to know when that happens ?
Still not turning my boxes back on until you guys say you are 100% back up and running.

I pray for the day when we can ALL help to crunch for other WCG by simply plugging in a tablet such as a Hudl2 into a CEP ;-) solar panel and crunch away for free. I have four of these tabs all with broken screens so they were being sold for cheap as spares or repairs. Powered by a quad core Z3735D it still packs quite a processing punch. Low power tablet cluster anyone? I could set those to crunch for other WCG projects.

In all seriousness though I've been informed that in the next 12 or so months I'm about to lose the space I use for my crunching boxes at work so I need to maximise the limited time I have left to crunch CEP WU's. Sadly CEP is not just a plug'n'crunch project. CEP takes total dedication to crunch for and that fact needs to be advertised more. It's sold to the public with no warning that on certain equipment WU's can take 18+ hours to crunch. A quick scan of the details of CEP and this is all I could find
" Why is Phase 2 of the Clean Energy Project an opt-in project?

These calculations require work units that may run longer, have higher memory, disk space and data transfer requirements. Therefore, we are providing the users the option to opt-in to the project."
That warning is just a bit too vague in my books and WU's resetting back to zero puts amateur CEP crunchers off as it is. As a noob cruncher for CEP I had no idea the check points were so sparse to begin with and complained like other noobs have, and still do to this day :-).
The funny thing is I've just bought my first rack server! 2X E5620 and 8GB DR3. I've never set up a raid before so the next few days/weeks will be fun getting it up and running just so long as I can get my hands on some ultra ultra cheap ssd drives.

I promise to dedicate my boxes to other WCG projects just as soon as CEP ends.

Gatchaman,

CEP is also my primary project at moment. I can relay I have had no lack of CEP work since the afternoon of the 8th.

Comments like these always raise the question: Can we see your Linux BOINC event log, from client startup to where the messages start to deny the work provision?

Next week, 16th I'll be firing up my Ubuntu 14.04LTS with 3.16 kernel to major upgrade to the 4.2 LTS kernel which has significant file/disk handling improvements. Then will test CEP2 again, with which I did not have the greatest experience on Linux... better computing lost against poor i/o to swap and storage, net poorer efficiency than under W7 64 bits (though Ce is only 32 bits) .