There will be an extended WCG downtime from December 7th, 2024 to January 3rd, 2025.
We have determined it is not feasible to migrate the BOINC infrastructure to another site during downtime, and we are still waiting to hear back from UHN personnel who manage our DNS records to see when we can switch the website and forums over to the alternate site.
As users pointed out in the forums, it did not really make sense to start pushing new ARP1 workunits given the imminent downtime, and we stopped producing new MCM1 workunits today to hopefully give the bulk of outstanding workunits a chance to be uploaded. When we power down, after all traffic to the upload servers is stopped, deadlines for outstanding workunits will be extended to cover the downtime.
With the improvements to the cloud environment, we have been informed that the issue with the network agents in our cloud environment causing the website and forums database instance to become inaccessible on the network until hosting intervenes (cause of this past weekend's outage and many previous outages), will be fixed.
To keep up to date on any issue, please check the Jurisica Lab webpage.