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[jave808]

Just got this email this morning! The sun is shining so bright today!!!

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�World Community Grid is officially restarting BOINC
Subject: World Community Grid is officially restarting BOINC
From: "World Community Grid <support@worldcommunitygrid.org>" <support@worldcommunitygrid.org>
Date: 2/10/22, 04:15
To: xxx
 
World Community Grid
 
Dear jave200372,

We are proud to announce that after months of preparation and testing, the World Community Grid is ready to fully restart operations as one of the most cost efficient and powerful supercomputers in the world, dedicated exclusively to crunching data for scientific research that benefits the world.

After a long process of rebuilding WCG at Krembil Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, the platform is stable for broader use. Existing projects have prepared new workunits, and we have started to work on onboarding new projects.

We are reaching out to ask you to join the WCG community once again, and help transform open science through global collaboration, citizen engagement and youth outreach. As a World Community Grid volunteer your devices perform research calculations when idle or with what they can spare without impeding your personal use of them.

WCG is a safe, secure, and easy way to contribute to science. WCG has been built using the principle of security by design. Your personal information will never be shared, ever. The software cannot access your personal files, and security experts constantly test the system for any vulnerabilities or vectors of attack.

With your help, scientists can identify the most important results to study in the lab, accelerating discoveries that save lives and address global challenges.

Since 2004, more than 7.5M computers and Android devices have contributed to the network that makes up WCG, and over 2.4M years of computing power has been contributed to date. WCG condenses computational time to allow scientists to answer the world's most pressing questions more quickly, more thouroughly, and cost efficiently by directing their limited budgets away from the generation and towards the analysis and interpretation of results.

Help us make a difference and support science at the World Community Grid! With support from volunteers from around the world, partners, and funders, people contribute to scientific discoveries.

Please re-join us in the WCG Community and help to accelerate science by creating a supercomputer empowered by a global community of volunteers:

Join World Community Grid →

Your individual contribution may seem small but together we are making the impossible possible, and democratizing access to incredibly expensive supercomputers with your help.

Thanks for your support,

WCG Team at Krembil Research Institute, UHN  
 
We have not received a result from you in over 227 days. We need your help again!
 
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[shift]

In case you care, you left your email address on that attachment Jave.

[jave808]

Thanks shift. I will modify it.

[Dingo]

he web site is down already.  FAIL

[Abruraspingi]

The website and forums are still down. I knew it was too good to be true. Feeling a bit devastated but doesn't matter as I'm crunching other WU's including some Moo Wrappers.

I'm surprised there isn't an update on their Twitter or Facebook

[jave808]

@Dingo and @Abruraspingi

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that WCGs email promoted a lot of network activity...

Sort of like a self-inflicted DoS attack? Would this be going too far?

No website. And I can't download any new WUs or upload results from completed tasks.

[shift]

 

[Abruraspingi]

Just received a handful of Mapping Cancer Markers. WCG is looking more positive every day

[tazzduke]

 

[chooka03]

I cannot for the life of me get GPU tasks to download. I have about 7 stuck on "project backoff"
Project weight set to 100. GPU tasks ticked for AMD & NVIDIA. Any ideas?
Anyone currently doing any WCG gpu work?

[Abruraspingi]

The WCG forum is very slow but a lot of complaints about GPU WU. It looks to be ongoing issues due to moving to the new infrastructure.

In a few threads people are saying its taking days to download a graphics work unit and there are very few available.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,44510

Admins state that they are working on it.

[chooka03]

Thank you Abruraspingi.

It makes me wonder how people are still pumping out millions per day in credits.

[Abruraspingi]

I had high hopes for WCG. They have published so many scientific papers and so many great projects. It's been over a year since they announced WCG was migrating to Kimble Research and they've been plagued with problems and delays since they started. The issues still haven't been fixed.

My positive thoughts were two months of down time and be back online with a new research project. Unfortunately migration never go smoothly and then has proved it.

I still have high hopes but it fades all the time

[Mysteron347]

I've got a number of (short) GPU tasks for both NVidia and Intel. CPU tasks - not in evidence.

The downloads seem to be a problem - always in "Project backoff", but retrying seems to clear the backlog eventually.

Personally, I'd prefer to do WCG proects, which seem to have a goal over endlessly calculating prime numbers that have no apparent practical application.

[Dingo]

We definitely punch above our weight on the WCG challenges.  We come in #1 spot more here than any other challenge in BOINC

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallengeHistory.do?teamId=2MH9NS9PP1&listType=3&sortBy=endDate&filterType=0&filterOpen=-1&filterDays=0&pageNum=125


Well done Team.   

EDIT:  I changed the link