I'm still seeing "Tasks are committed to other platforms" on my [Linux] systems on at least 50% of contact attempts, so I reckon there must still be retries out there! -- and something is clearing them out because I'' get a few "No tasks are available" replies mixed with those.

However, I wonder if the mechanism they have in place for workflow control is hamstringing supply of these tail-enders because there are relatively few active tasks out there now?

And if there's no new work from the SCC scientists, we just have to wait -- it is already tagged as an intermittent project, isn't it? How many folks[*1] realize how much science work goes into setting up a new target or targets for a docking exercise -- the ligands are usually well-mapped already, but the targets may need to have accurate models constructed, and that is likely to be non-trivial...

Cheers - Al.

[*1] Without intending specific reference to any of the posters in this thread, by the way :-)

Agreed, I'm still waiting for an update two months later on the progress of the SCC work units.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg...ad,45380_offset,60#688021

It's obvious they don't want to or are not able to regularly communicate what's actually happening with the daily workflows.
Or, they (TigerLily and Jurisca Lab) are in the dark as well.
My impression is WCG is actually being supported by a Tech team in the Krembil organization and they don't feel the need to interact on these forums.

We could have quite an interesting discussion about server status pages and what it might entail to get one implemented for a completely non-standard BOINC web set-up such as this one, but [sadly] I don't think this is the right place...

And without knowing what admin tools are available to the ex-IBM version, we can't know how easy it would be for someone to query the status of each project a couple of times a day and post about it.

I suspect the problem in both cases is more one of resource shortage -- a lot of folks might be surprised at how small the support team actually is (and how many other jobs they have at the same time...)

That said, some information would be better than none :-)

Cheers - Al.

I am still receiving SCC work units, the last one at 19:17 UTC.
Cheers

Looked like someone kicked the SCC1 feeder late Saturday. Got a steady supply of SCC1 since and almost all MCM1 WUs have been flushed out. Now just again those occasional bursts of OPNG would be nice...


Ralf