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Thread Status: Active Thread Type: Global Announcement Thread Total posts in this thread: 96
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Link64
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Feb 19, 2021 Post Count: 116 Status: Recently Active Project Badges: 
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With a pending 1 month outage it wouldn't seem prudent not to release any APR1 work units. In fact, the next ten days might be better used to stop MCM and let those work units come back prior to the shutdown or they will expire on the contributors machines during the outage period. Why do you think, that sending out long running tasks before the outage instead of the short running ones is a good idea? If the temporary migration to another site won't be possible, best send only MCM out and increase the deadline 2 or 3 days before shutdown to around 40 days, so everyone can fill up their cache to the maximum of 10+10 days. Once the dust settles down after the outage, slowly start sending ARP again and see what the systems can handle after all the changes. Considering that "this upgrade should provide further improvements to the WCG capacity", it's pointless to experiment now, just keep it running without any interruptions.Sorrry, the word not shouldn't have been in the sentence. Should really be draining work.  I guess the admins need to decide what's the plan latest until the end of this week, either stop sending new work few days before the outage or extend the deadlines well beyond the planned end of the outage.  |
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1258 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I was thinking the same. Should we let our queues empty out before December 9 and stop accepting new tasks a few days before? It would be useless to process WUs in the queue after the 9th if the deadline is 3-5 days later. This should be a boon the all the other Boinc projects if they could get their stuff together. My response to your first paragraph is feel free to do whatever you feel like doing  |
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 746 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks so much for the detailed communication. As a regular user, I appreciate it. And as a technical person, I love when that is also provided. Good luck with the datacenter downtime, knowing it's really out of WCG's control.
----------------------------------------Might be helpful to put out a long-term BOINC Notice in the app (with long expiration) so that more WCG members see it and not wonder, since only a small percentage regularly read the forums. Will the forums also be down, I assume? I haven't checked WCG Facebook and X, but those are some places I check during outages. Hope the upgrades tangibly help WCG infrastructure. I guess I'll be patient and focus on backup project(s).
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gj82854
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I'm assuming there are other customers using the hosting site other than WCG. Are they asking businesses to be down for a month for construction? I'm a little skeptical...
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robix73Sicily
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Is maybe this the reason that mydashboard is not updated? I am a new user and all my stats devices running tine are to zero.
Is this? Thankz for answering |
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Link64
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Is maybe this the reason that mydashboard is not updated? I am a new user and all my stats devices running tine are to zero. No, until the shutdown everything should run normal. According to your stats you didn't return any valid result so far. Do you see any valid or at least returned results for your computer?Is this? Thankz for answering [Edit 1 times, last edit by Link64 at Nov 30, 2024 5:58:43 PM] |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Is maybe this the reason that mydashboard is not updated? I am a new user and all my stats devices running tine are to zero. No, until the shutdown everything should run normal. According to your stats you didn't return any valid result so far. Do you see any valid or at least returned results for your computer?Is this? Thankz for answering Hi robix73Sicily, it may be that your device needs connecting to your account (here's been a long-standing issue, although I'm not sure as to the current state of play, it may be worthwhile looking in the Missing Devices in My Contribution thread.  |
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1928 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Is maybe this the reason that mydashboard is not updated? I am a new user and all my stats devices running tine are to zero. Well, no.Is this? Thankz for answering But make sure that in your WCG profile, you consent to the data sharing per GDPR... Ralf  |
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alanb1951
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According to the Research Alliance status page at the time of posting this, the outage at Graham is [now?] from 7th December (and I presume that's your data centre!) -- just thought I'd mention it...
Cheers - Al. |
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savas
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Indeed, this post is related to the upcoming outage.
https://status.alliancecan.ca/view_incident?incident=1237 The WCG outage is likely to start on Dec 7, too. |
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