The project has been up for about a week now, but I am still unable to get any units to crunch. Is there a problem or will this resolve itself in time? Any estimates as to when the flow will smooth out so that all will be able to get units to crunch?

Clarification:
The website and forums ARE part of WCG. It's the BOINC/work side that is not up.

Sorry DaveW and Yavanius if it seems that I've taken a punch on your holy cow, but the question is totally legit.

In the past years I've invested thousands of euros on CPUs and GPUs and will sell the hardware, if there are indications that project will not resume. Indications, like a massive 2 month outage reserverd for transition, which is already missed by 100%.

I dont really mind waiting "twice as long" (twice as long as what..? never?) Since I wont be doing crunching anyway at summer time.

Hey Biini

They have made guesses on start time before and didn't do so well with those, so I'm glad they haven't made a specific guess on when WUs will go back out.

They have brought the website back up, and are actively working on fixing any issues with it. They hired a communications intern (cyclops). These are signs of a project that is working towards resuming and has hope that they can accomplish this.

They have their own project in the mix, so they have a vested interest in bringing it back up.

Enjoy working on other projects until this one is back. You can assess what projects are worthy your investment when it is back.

I understand people's frustrations -- in fact I share them. Several times in the past few months I've had to cool myself down and step away from the keyboard. But:

Let's not brag about hardware stacks or talk about being invested. Volunteering is about giving, selflessly. Statements like this center the self and show entitlement.

Let's also not start yelling or demanding things of the new comms person. Vent to your therapist or to a rubber duck, not at them. Their job is to distribute information, not to absorb abuse -- and they weren't around when any of these decisions were made anyway.

P.S. the one technical detail that has been shared that made me go "ohhhhhh" and gave me some understanding of the issues the team has been dealing with was Websphere. It is a competent piece of sofware, but it is not fun to work with -- to the degree that if I were interviewing somewhere and they told me their stack was based on Websphere, I would likely start thinking about how to gracefully bring the meeting to a conclusion and step away. The Krembil peeps deserve some grace for having this... suddenly become their responsibility.