i still have issues downloading and uploading with WCG, im not having these issues with any other projects. based on all the posts about this it seems to be on wcg's end.

Dusting of my forum login to ask if there has been any sort of response from Krembil about the shambolic state of the servers?

I thought it was bad when my OPNG tasks couldn't keep up with my GPU, but today the CPU tasks (all selected) could not keep up with my Intel i9-10850K.

Sorry, but this is something we are hearing now for 5 months. The whole setup hasn't been able to run for more than 5 days, and that only with reduced WUs/projects.

From this end, it doesn't really look like there are in fact improvements happening...

5 Months to fix an issue like this is an ETERNITY in IT terms, still having to deal with these kind of issues after restarting the work (officially still for testing) makes some wonder if Krembil in fact has a reasonable and professional approach to all of this.
And please consider that there are at least a few people among the long time volunteers that WANT TO HELP to get this working smoothly again, but we can do this only if there is a better communication from your side...

Ralf

I am myself for more than a couple of decades in the IT business. And I am therefor also aware that there always can be issues creeping up when deploying a new system, or migrating an existing one.

But in our case here, what is going on is beyond comprehension.

For one, there have likely been talks between IBM and Krembil BEFORE they made the announcement of the move back in September 2021, that's now 14 months ago. That is not something that anyone, on either side, just decides over a lunch break. And during those talks, Krembil should have already had an idea of the scope and generally necessary resources required to take over the project. If they did not have that info, this would been downright stupid at that point.

Second, there were another 5 months, between the announcement and the shutdown of the system in February 2022. That would have been the right time to start putting all the resources in place required to run the project by Krembil.
At latest after the next three months, from the shutdown in February until the reactivating of the forum in May 2022, when doing the actual, physical migration, they should have been aware of most of the tripwires and other obstacles in the way to get the project operational again.
So when restarting "for testing" in June, I did expect that there will be a few weeks in which things might not work smoothly and a lot of fine tuning would still have to happen. But the scope and need for resources should by that time, 9 months into the transition, already been obvious.
But instead, yet another 5 months later, it just seems to be utter pandemonium, with things being amiss at a very basic level in this whole setup. It is incomprehensible that by now, a total of 14 months in, not having the resources is still an issue.
And on top of all of this, not having proper communication from Krembil just makes things only worse for us, the volunteers. Platitudes like "this issue is on the radar" or "fixing this is our #1 priority" are of no help here. On the contrary, it just enhances the feeling that Krembil is totally in over their collective heads at this point...


Ralf