Asteroids off line

[TIM B]

Does anyone know what has happened to asteroids@home  ? site has gone down .

[Mike Mitchell]

Only what I posted in the other part of the forum. There was a problem with the servers and it would be some time before they could be fixed or replaced.

[Dataman]

Yes, they had a catastrophic server failure and there is no real estimate if/when they will return.

[shift]

https://asteroidsathome.net/project.html

Project Asteroids@home
Server status - offline
Update - 02-12-2021

Project servers are currently offline for longer period than expected. The main reason is that waiting for a new server took longer than expected. We finally have a new server but it will still take some time to start the project again. The new server will be at a different location than old servers are, all the project data have to be transferred there and BOINC server must be upgraded to the latest version before running up again. The project was running on three servers which two of them crashed. BOINC project data was using those two bad servers, non-BOINC project data was on the third server. New server will be running BOINC project data from both bad servers.

I am sorry I didn't post any news earlier. If needed I will post additional information here. I suppose that the project will be ready to continue by the end of month. This website is now running temporary on a Raspberry Pi and will switch to a new server when ready.

[TIM B]

Im glad to see that the project will come back soon. cant wait to start crunching up a storm on asteroids . 

[shift]

There are work units available currently.


And someone has already asked for a new app for "armv8 application yet for Raspberry Pi 4's running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS". Ha! Like the admin doesn'tt have enough fires to put out.