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PMH_UK
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 759 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This needs to be on Facebook etc. as well.
----------------------------------------Will https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html be down as well?
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 746 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This needs to be on Facebook etc. as well. Will https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html be down as well? I said that last week as well. Post to Facebook/X as well as the built-in BOINC Notification system. Maybe even a mass e-mail. Most volunteers don't read the forums religiously unless there's a problem.
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1928 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This needs to be on Facebook etc. as well. Will https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html be down as well? I said that last week as well. Post to Facebook/X as well as the built-in BOINC Notification system. Maybe even a mass e-mail. Most volunteers don't read the forums religiously unless there's a problem.  Ralf  |
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Paul Schlaffer
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Post Count: 240 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This needs to be on Facebook etc. as well. Will https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html be down as well? I said that last week as well. Post to Facebook/X as well as the built-in BOINC Notification system. Maybe even a mass e-mail. Most volunteers don't read the forums religiously unless there's a problem. Ralf ...and others like me, just use X and aren't on Facebook. Either way with the forum, the lab website, and social media we are well covered. I also saw the notice hit the BOINC client today, so well done.  “Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792) |
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Michael E.@ team Carl Sagan
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As hchc specified, I strongly agree that a Notice message in the app be added.
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. FWIW, I sent an email to our team: URGENT: The BOINC project Word Community Grid (WCG) will be offline starting about December 7 2024 for several weeks. The building they are housed in will be renovated. Reduce the number of tasks for Mapping Cancer Markers to a low number in your Device Profiles: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/device/viewProfiles.do . |
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Michael E.@ team Carl Sagan
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A well-worded project notice appeared in the BOINC app. It is concise and provides a link to a page with more information at: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=818
World Community Grid: WCG downtime in December There will be an extended WCG downtime from December 7th, 2024 to January 3rd, 2025. 12/5/2024 10:41:39 PM · more... |
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savas
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- We are making final preparations to power down. Before powering off all VMs and the storage servers, we will kill all traffic at the load balancer so we can allow the filesystems and databases to settle before taking a final backup.
- When we kill traffic at the load balancer overnight tonight, there will be no access to the website, forums, BOINC scheduler, BOINC uploads, or BOINC downloads. - We have transferred database backups for BOINC and the website/forums, as well as all source code offsite. We will be transferring the final backups overnight as well. - Today, we have been taking snapshots of all production VMs and sometime this evening we should have all instances that make up our backend infra backed up as snapshots, ready to deploy from resilient storage if there are any issues powering up our instances when we are back online. - We will be working on the new project (Mapping Arthritis Markers), long-standing issues with device synchronization between the website and BOINC databases, server status page, real-time stats API, and a new look for the forums as well as new badges during the downtime. We look forward to sharing the results of the data center refresh with you in the New Year - thank you for your support and happy holidays! |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3294 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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That's good to hear, savas.
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Unixchick
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Thank you Savas ! (and team) . I am looking forward to a new forum look and NEW BADGES!!!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to the Krembil team |
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Jack H
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