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Former Member
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IBM was around for 6 months. Maybe Krembril shouldn't have raised their hand. They were still installing hardware at Christmas time. If IBM was smart they should have just shut it down on December 31st. If Krembil was smart, they would have started a new project with basic BOINC infrastructure like other much smaller BOINC projects. Why didn't Krembil ask for some kind of support agreement when they decided to take the project?
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Gretar
Cruncher Iceland Joined: Dec 28, 2008 Post Count: 23 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks for the update!
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2068 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, there are several other problems too. Changes of the "General Preferences" on the "Device management" page on the WCG website, isn't picked up by BOINC at all.
----------------------------------------Normally when you change the prefs, the next time the agent communicates with the server, will bring a message to the BOINC Event Log, that says: World Community Grid 2022-XX-XX XX:XX:XX General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified XX-xxx-2022 XX:XX:XX) That does not happen now when you change the prefs. My message in the event log still says: World Community Grid 2022-07-05 20:05:08 General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 26-Feb-2022 14:47:03) My last update of the prefs before the migration outage, was as can be seen 26-Feb-2022 14:47:03. Any changes made now though, does not seem to be picked up by BOINC, even though the scheduler is running now. So, more issues I would say...... Edit, added: But I'm in no hurry. I can wait until the cows come home.  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Grumpy Swede at Jul 5, 2022 6:35:19 PM] |
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Acibant
Advanced Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 15, 2020 Post Count: 126 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If Krembil was smart, they would have started a new project with basic BOINC infrastructure like other much smaller BOINC projects. I really do wonder why this wasn't the case. We're at four months down and even Berkeley doesn't think it takes that long to bring a project online from scratch.From: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BoincOverview It takes (very roughly) three man-months to create a BOINC project: one month of an experienced sys admin, one month of a programmer, and one month of a web developer. Once the project is running, budget a 50% FTE (mostly system admin) to maintain it.  |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12120 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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WCG is not just one project. It is a series of projects linked together. That 3 months wouldn't cover it. Also, we would have lost our badges, etc.
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SP15161
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It sounds to me that there wasn't a test environment prior to the migration, and that someone thought that the whole migration would a copy-paste procedure. It is very common on far-from-the-ground management.
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phillipspencer
Advanced Cruncher France Joined: Apr 9, 2015 Post Count: 71 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Maybe the wait is over? Just noticed I am 33% through an Open Pandemics task. Fingers crossed!
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moefugger
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Good to know.
When you get running you get running. Since it runs in the background. Not like something I use. |
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