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Thread Status: Active Thread Type: Global Announcement Thread Total posts in this thread: 96
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anarchic teapot
Cruncher Joined: Apr 30, 2011 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My results are now "ready to report", but the deadline hasn't been changed.
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seanr22a
Cruncher Sweden Joined: Nov 29, 2018 Post Count: 5 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Very little to crunch so far in December/January in the medicine/biology area. Rosetta/ralph almost nothing, TN-Grid nothing, SiDock nothing, DENIS seems to have pulled the plug, their website down for a long time and no work. Maybe GPUgrid have something but I don't have any GPUs.
----------------------------------------I put my hope to WCG maybe they get the last issues cleared today (optimistic) :) I have 354 cores sitting idling waiting for WCG heating my house which is nice in the winter :D  |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My results are now "ready to report", but the deadline hasn't been changed. It should be on the 'back-end' database, thus, if you go to your Results Page, those 'Iin Progress' should now have an extended return date (mine does).  |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Very little to crunch so far in December/January in the medicine/biology area. Rosetta/ralph almost nothing, TN-Grid nothing, SiDock nothing, DENIS seems to have pulled the plug, their website down for a long time and no work. Maybe GPUgrid have something but I don't have any GPUs. By the sounds of the latest update seanr22a "January 9, 2025I put my hope to WCG maybe they get the last issues cleared today (optimistic) :) I have 354 cores sitting idling waiting for WCG heating my house which is nice in the winter :D BOINC database is up and in a good state. We are waiting on two more servers to regain access to the network, at which point we will be restarting the scheduler, transitioner, assimilators and validators. All deadlines for outstanding MCM1 work units have been extended to just after 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on January 15th, 2025. Web site is up; stats will be updated soon. Forums are up.", we shouldn't now have long to wait... |
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PMH_UK
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 759 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Agreed there is a shortage of med/bio work on BOINC, Folding has some I believe.
----------------------------------------Last updates I recall: DENIS will have more work, but not soon. Rosetta has work on & off. SiDock currently has no work for x86 (long tasks), only ARM (short tasks). TN-Grid ended some time ago. See those projects websites for more.
Paul.
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1928 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, reporting still doesn't work, but at least the rest seems to be back, so all a work week later.
----------------------------------------Issues as the hosting data center aside, I think WCG needs to rethink the resilience of their setup if there are so many (virtual) servers that aren't coming right back up, specially when there should have been a graceful shutdown of the system back in December...  Ralf  |
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seanr22a
Cruncher Sweden Joined: Nov 29, 2018 Post Count: 5 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Issues as the hosting data center aside, I think WCG needs to rethink the resilience of their setup if there are so many (virtual) servers that aren't coming right back up, specially when there should have been a graceful shutdown of the system back in December... Ralf Maybe this has something to do with the restart problems: From Operational Status December 20. "In light of the merger of this pull request (introducing "BUDA" to the latest BOINC server releases), we find a strong motivation to upgrade our BOINC server version to track BOINC upstream as nearly every bioinformatics application we have experience running in an HPC environment we could run on the grid, if only we could run containers. We have considered multiple different strategies to accomplish this migration in the past, and now that we have occasion to test existing and new applications with the newest BOINC server version during this downtime offsite, we will put together a roadmap after the launch of MAM1 and upgrade BOINC server to use BUDA/containers going forward." So it's not 'only' a datacenter rebuild, they updated the BOINC server side software too if I understand this correctly. [Edit 1 times, last edit by seanr22a at Jan 10, 2025 6:06:25 PM] |
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Bryn Mawr
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 26, 2018 Post Count: 331 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Issues as the hosting data center aside, I think WCG needs to rethink the resilience of their setup if there are so many (virtual) servers that aren't coming right back up, specially when there should have been a graceful shutdown of the system back in December... Ralf Maybe this has something to do with the restart problems: From Operational Status December 20. "In light of the merger of this pull request (introducing "BUDA" to the latest BOINC server releases), we find a strong motivation to upgrade our BOINC server version to track BOINC upstream as nearly every bioinformatics application we have experience running in an HPC environment we could run on the grid, if only we could run containers. We have considered multiple different strategies to accomplish this migration in the past, and now that we have occasion to test existing and new applications with the newest BOINC server version during this downtime offsite, we will put together a roadmap after the launch of MAM1 and upgrade BOINC server to use BUDA/containers going forward." So it's not 'only' a datacenter rebuild, they updated the BOINC server side software too if I understand this correctly. As I read it they intend to change once they have recovered from this outage - “we will put together a roadmap after”. |
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Paul Schlaffer
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Post Count: 240 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, reporting still doesn't work, but at least the rest seems to be back, so all a work week later. Issues as the hosting data center aside, I think WCG needs to rethink the resilience of their setup if there are so many (virtual) servers that aren't coming right back up, specially when there should have been a graceful shutdown of the system back in December... Ralf The last update on 1/9 didn't say the servers didn't come back up. It said they haven't yet regained access to the network, which is a different issue. It looks like there were upgrades/changes to the datacenter networking. https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html  “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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TonyEllis
Senior Cruncher Australia Joined: Jul 9, 2008 Post Count: 254 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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seanr22a wrote :-
----------------------------------------SiDock nothing True for i686/x64 based WUS. However, during this whole period my raspberry/orange pis have been busy running SidDock WUs, maimly corona. If you want WUs, einstein has always had work available when I needed it. Kept the Intel/AMD machines here 100% busy during this WCG outage.
Run Time Stats https://grassmere-productions.no-ip.biz/
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