Subject: Re: Is everyone else having problems with BOINC?
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 30/06/2004, 23:11
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Benjamin Gawert wrote:
Si wrote:

Is everyone else still having problems downloading new workunits from
BOINC?

Yes, for several days now. Seems they rushed out the public start of BOINC
when it still doesn't work reliable...
[...]

Look at the earlier threads.

They have been swamped by tens of thousands of users signing up very quickly and have suffered parts of their servers system not scaling up to those many thousands as efficiently as expected. They are juggling hardware and server functions to try to clear a two day backlog. They're also waiting for new RAM to bring another server online.


No big surprise really...
(:-))

Hang around a day or few to see how it settles out.


Happy crunchin',
Martin


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