I saw I had one. I paused DENIS@home to see if I could get some more and I got 2 more. Nothing stuck in the queue.

In the last three days, I have gotten 66 wu's in total. Majority have been MCM but started getting OPN1 yesterday. No OPNG yet. All have been for my Windows machines until the last one. It's a _2 MCM sent to one of my Ubuntu machines. All the wu's received are either in process, valid, or pending validation. I would expect Kembril is taking things one little step at a time and OPNG's will come in time.

We all owe Kembril our gratiutide. I expect they saved WCG. IBM has never been able to display any consistency in meeting its revenue goals so it has to be very aggressive at controlling expenses in order to meet EPS targets that execs live and die by. In its early days, WCG enjoyed strong support from the IBM CFO. Those days are long gone though. I fully believe IBM decided to kill WCG but someone was able to offer the various research teams the chance to pick it up. I'm betting the impact of losing WCG on Kembril's research was going to be great enough that they bit the bullet and stepped forward. I'm sure they faced a drop dead date so they had little to no opportunity to put together any kind of real migration plan other than just this side of controlled chaos. I won't be surprised if they run into issues dealing with the bandwidth of WCG which is beyond killer. In time after the dust settles, I suspect they may well start looking at the complexities on the WCG server side and look at the possibilities of simplifying things. While they are bound to have a few bureaucratic and policy constraints, those have to pale in comparison to what existed at IBM. In time, we may actually see them address some of the issues we crunchers have pleaded and begged about, things that stood absolutely zero chance at IBM. Let's give the Kembril team the chance they deserve. I don't expect us to ever truly know just what the past 6-9 months have been like for them but it probably has taken the concept of trail by fire to levels they've never known or expected.

This sounds quite on target for a large bureaucratic organization whos individual project champion has moved on. I am happy for any computing I can do that is useful to researchers and thank Krembil for keeping WCG going. It is a great opportunity for researchers to get computational work done yet not have to manage the project overhead.

IBM just recently sold its Watson Health division. WCG is just a speck compared to that.

I had been receiving work units for Windows, but not Linux until today. Just got 30 OPN for one Linux system. No problems downloading. I wonder if MCM is not far behind.
Cheers