Also, an uploaded task on one of my hosts sticks with "ready to report" in the status line of the BOINC manager.

And the reason why can be seen on BOINC's Event Log:

08/05/2020 21:04:51 | GPUGRID | Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance

- though unfortunately we don't get any deeper explanation than that.

- though unfortunately we don't get any deeper explanation than that.

I guess the explanation is the same as Toni gave us in the first posting of this thread:

" I'm temporarily suspending the project to give time to empty the disk. "

We're gonna need a bigger disk!

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We're gonna need a bigger disk!

I doubt if bigger disks are available that are also fast enough and reliable enough. We probably need another disk server, with all the high speed disks it can handle.

We get the 50% of volunters from seti:-) Now we need 50% of seti's servers to :-)

Yes, Seti should donate the disks we financed on the last pledge drive that they never will use to GPUGrid.net

the bad thing is, from a technical point of view, that with all these outages which now seem to occur on a rather regular basis, the GPUs are going through this so-called "thermal cycle" (cooling off - heating up) everytime this happens. Which is not good for the GPUs at all, it certainly shortens their lifetime.

As a consequence, I am thinking about abandoning GPUGRID until these problems are solved. I simply don't want to ruin my GPUs :-(

@Keith I have to disagree with you. Even though I did not donate the money can go to supporting the small team that worked to keep volunteers supplied with work.

@Erich56 I hear what you are saying in regards to your GPU's calling off/heating up. I wish you all the best with your decision whether you stay or go. In the event you do go (which I hope you don't) :) it would mean the discs won't fill up quite as quickly.

I have not seen on a note from admin since 2nd of May (New Zealand time) saying the server's have been suspended. It looks very much like they have been just no comment about it

@ Erich56 i run primegrid as backup on gpu(nvidia) in 0 mode. = if gpugrid dont have work/working primgrid star running. // stoptime under 15 sec to change from gpugrid to primegrid .. Runing fast work 3-40 minuts work as backup .. have them even for cpu if rosettta goes down. Set work to 0 (Zero) and they onely start if the cpu or gpu dont have work.
Warning some workt are to hot for my gpu .. over 95 celsius. So it take some time to test it . And ther are work from 3 minuts gpu to over 100 houers.

I have not seen on a note from admin since 2nd of May (New Zealand time) saying the server's have been suspended. It looks very much like they have been just no comment about it

They don't have to comment it every time the disk gets full, as we are aware of it. You can see it on the server status (click on the middle text on the upper right corner) page in the form of many server components showing "Not running" status marked with a red background. Also you can see it in the log of your BOINC manager when it tries to communicate with GPUGrid:

09/05/2020 10:58:08 | GPUGRID | Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
09/05/2020 10:58:08 | GPUGRID | Project requested delay of 3600 seconds

@Speedy, the money was already spent on the new storage array. But Seti has closed down and has no need for any more storage. Their existing storage is sufficient with no work going out and just the last dribs and drabs being returned. They never installed the new array. It is just sitting in boxes somewhere. Put it to good use here where all the Seti orphans ended up.

@Keith, I hear what you are saying, I was not aware the new aray had been brought. My suggestion would be to use it when Seti is back up and running if it is usable or salad and use the proceeds for the project, or maybe they could be donated to the other project that was/is helping Seti out
@Retvari Zoltan yes .fair enough, I just thought they would have made a note in this thread when it was happening that was all

Speedy, what other project was/is helping Seti out?

Speedy, what other project was/is helping Seti out?

Einstein@Home IRC Bruce Allen director of the project was/is going to allow lots of data to be processed on one of their servers. Unfortunately I cannot find the information relating to this, I am sure it on the Seti message boards somewhere

Yes, the focus of analyzing the past twenty years of crunched data was being processed as the "Nebula" project by David Anderson.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula/web/

He is analyzing with the Atlas Cluster hosted at Einstein@home.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula/web/architecture.php

@Speedy, the money was already spent on the new storage array. But Seti has closed down and has no need for any more storage. Their existing storage is sufficient with no work going out and just the last dribs and drabs being returned. They never installed the new array. It is just sitting in boxes somewhere. Put it to good use here where all the Seti orphans ended up.

That's not what Eric Korpela said in his blog post:

I know some of you are upset that you donated only to see the public participation part of the project end. If you donated for the disk array, we'll still need that. Jeff is in the process of assembling it. If you gave money in the annual drive, we'll have bills to pay all the way to the end (including page charges for the papers).

(3 March 2020)

Thank you Richard and Keith for your responses. I am pleased the array did not go to waste after all, until now I hadn't seen Eric's response thanks for posting

To those who wish to keep their GPU temp steady, I installed Folding@home alongside BOINC during the outage and tested running multiple apps on my old Optiplex 980 w/2 GTX 1650s to see if it might ensue a train wreck.

To my delight, it ran most politely alongside of BOINC (running 6 CPU threads of Rosetta and 2 threads of Asteroids on the GPUs) and set up 1 CPU slot and 2 GPU slots running COVID-19 protease models and very efficiently, apparently timeslicing itself in so that I saw steady usage and temperature with a varying power consumption between 60-110%.

When Asteroids ran out of work units F@H took over and the GPUs never even noticed.

Then I got brave and ran the F@H app on 'full comuting' while I ran some Milky Way GPU tasks in BOINC. Test result positve.

When I saw that GPUGRID had been relaunched and had taken priority over Milky Way, I was relieved to see that my machine was functioning normally running 2 GPUGRIDs and 2 F@H GPU models, albeit at about half speed. I set F@H back to 'medium' and had it finish the current work and pause, so that I can run BOINC projects full speed.

The obvious caveat is that it will take much longer to finish GPUGRID WUs, as they use much more of the GPU capacity than Milky way or Asteroids tasks. I also slowed Rosetta tasks to share my CPU with F@H but the server adjusted subsequent tasks to run the set duration.

Hello everyone and admin,
Any idea when you will produce new WU's ?
All queue are as good as empty !
Take care on health.
Best regards

It may help to purge the database of the many thousands of "Error" tasks going back to at least 2014. Should be easy to do.