It's high time for the team, to give us an update on when we can expect the promised ARP restart, and also when the "new" project that also was promised will start. An update on when we will see new OPNG tasks, would also be appreciated.

I don't think that they have a new communications intern.

Another month, another brief "report card" from the viewpoint of a user...

Regarding service reliability, there has been one obvious problem with the non-BOINC services, from about 01:50 to 17:20 UTC on 2024-09-11. (BOINC service seemed to be functional throughout.)

As ever, there was no official comment on what happened.

Regarding other aspects of the service: as far as I can tell, there weren't any times when one of the parts of the validation to purging chain took a day off :-)

Around the 21st and 22nd, it looked as if we might be going to see the return of the Waiting to be sent issue - the numbers relating to work units I returned results for on those days were as follows (based on my [then] typical processing of around 500 tasks a day):

40 delayed retries (0 UA, 39 NR/NSD, 1 other) were set up on 2024-09-21:
  delays between 8 hours, 36 minutes and 1 day, 10 hours, 20 minutes.
  1025 tasks were sent out for 513 WUs on this day

15 delayed retries (0 UA, 15 NR/NSD, 0 other) were set up on 2024-09-22:
  delays between 9 hours, 32 minutes and 23 hours, 58 minutes.
  1061 tasks were sent out for 544 WUs on this day

The reasons for a retry being needed?: UA = User Aborted, NR/NSD = No Reply or Not started by deadline, Other = anything else!

And, as suggested by the relatively short delays, I processed some delayed retries on the 22nd and 23rd...

Results returned on 2024-09-22:
  There were 15 WUs with retries:  I processed retries for 14 of them.
  13 of these were delayed retries.

Results returned on 2024-09-23:
  There were 34 WUs with retries:  I processed retries for all of them.
  17 of these were delayed retries.

Much relief that it didn't get any worse :-)

And finally...

I have not seen any official news about a replacement for TigerLily :-( -- however, as mentioned a couple of times up-thread, someone does appear to be reading [some of] the forums now and then :-)

Here's hoping for the following in the next month:

• as requested by many, some information about ARP1 progress;
  
• some more about the putative new project for which TigerLily posted a teaser a while ago;
  
• some news about communication with users (new intern, or otherwise);
  
• some information about funding (as per Unixchick's request above);
  
• savas tagging the account name with a useful role :-)
  

Cheers - Al.

I think there may have been some [unannounced] changes in the technical team (and/or the MCM team) in the last year or so; if that has resulted in a reduction in the size of the tech team or in a new person still learning the ropes, less feedback isn't exactly surprising (even with the fairly low baseline!)

I find it interesting that a project like Einstein@Home can have staffing issues and their user community doesn't get fractious about it, even when it impinges on quality of service! -- this is probably because when someone eventually responds they point out that someone has been (or is) indisposed, so the users know what's going on :-)

Cheers - Al.

Is MCM having a flow problem? Are MCM WUs going out??

I see it is a data center issue.