it's been bad for a half-decade... :(

at this rate they'll obsolete themselves even if they fix it.

At one point WCG had over 543,000 Users... Considered "Active" recently the number was less than 57,000. When the one little blip of Stat's were released this last week 16,197 Users received a Credit posting.

Considering that many of their current issues are being blamed on "volume" and related issues. How far we have fallen

Respectfully
Bill F

They seem to be posting to this link https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html

April 17, 2026

More problems - this time issues with the data center.
Website/Forum Outage - possibly due to a service interruption in our cloud environment that hosting is working to fix and prevents us from accessing our running instances for maintenance, and may be responsible for other issues although this is currently unclear. Hosting provided an ETA of 1h at 19:00 UTC today April 17th, 2026, and we will keep volunteers posted as we get information and attempt to come back online.
BOINC Backend Outage Ongoing after brief success window on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 - we enabled the BOINC stats dump after seeing the new architecture handle load and fixing the 503 upload issue. However, in attempting to fix the 404s on the download path by rebuilding the input files and writing them to the tmpfs cache from which downloads are served, we pushed several nodes into various failure states such as SUnreclaim slab memory exhaustion due to the overhead of writing each file to tmpfs en masse, and ill-advised queries run against postgres before EXPLAIN and without paging results to disk that backed up everything else waiting on postgres and caused soft lockup on the node. In addition to issues with the io_method = 'io_uring' setting in combination with our network-attached volumes for the postgres datadir, a setting we may have to change and evaluate before restarting. The naive "should be backup tonight" note in the forums by the WCG Tech was based on having recovered from one of these soft lockups many times in the past few weeks, and before understanding the reason for the initial crash or causing the later crashes on other nodes while attempting various methods of safely regenerating workunits that were throwing 404s on download after being assigned by the scheduler. We will bring the system online as soon as we are confident the results the scheduler will assign have download URLs with files at those paths, and the cluster is stable again.

Nothing really new at WCG.
it seems. No status updates from Dylan have been posted on the Juriscia website or that I could find on the WCG forums.

Some people in forums have reported that their stuck tasks uploaded but not finished the "Ready to report" status.

Yes, uploading finished tasks works, but step 2 of the process, "reporting" is not yet working. That part is still met with:
"Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable"

When/If, reporting starts to work, I will not ask for any new tasks, until I see that the system can stay up for longer than a day or two.

All "old" finished tasks have now not only uploaded they have reported, and as an added bonus I have some nice shiny new tasks to run :-)

I notice, BOINC is only showing the link to the home page and not the other links for the project it used to. My results page has the last returned result as 30th March, none of the results reported while i slept last night. Not showing the new shiny tasks either.

Edit: On this box and on phone, not so much shiny new tasks but ones that have bee lying in the drawer for a while. All at least _3 and one of those on my phone was a _8

I wish they would not hand out new ones until anything is fixed. Its good they finally took the old ones and report them, dont get me wrong ^^ But its always a ....ohhh hoppppeeeee..when i see my machines get "flooded" with new units until i see thats still http errors and such things.. ^^ But perhaps they need us as penetration testers to see if something fails again.

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Well, that uptime didn't last for long. WCG is down again:

First "server can't open database", and then "feeder not running"

Goodnight again WCG.

Back again for me at least. Just downloaded four new tasks that are now running.

In reply to Dave's message of 24 Apr 2026:

Back again for me at least. Just downloaded four new tasks that are now running.

Yeah, it's back again. Strange very short outage.

And feeder not running is back.....

Edit: And normal again. Sigh, I give up....

I have downloaded some tasks and will see what happens. Unless my understanding is wrong WCG has generated a New Cross Project Identifier which I guess is why my stats are not showing in Free-DC . I will have to do a separate inquiry for WCG with the new CPI presumably. Why did they have to do this I wonder and not keep the old one which I have had for years.

I joined a new project yesterday and that is already showing on Free-DC under my old CPI as I would expect.

In reply to Hadrian's message of 24 Apr 2026:

I have downloaded some tasks and will see what happens. Unless my understanding is wrong WCG has generated a New Cross Project Identifier which I guess is why my stats are not showing in Free-DC . I will have to do a separate inquiry for WCG with the new CPI presumably. Why did they have to do this I wonder and not keep the old one which I have had for years.

Forget about the "new" Cross Project ID. I have had the same message many times previously, and it is not a new ID, it's the same as before. It's yet another strange new issue with WCG.

And it's not the External CPID either, it's what is called <host_cpid> in the client_state.xml

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 24 Apr 2026:

In reply to Hadrian's message of 24 Apr 2026:

I have downloaded some tasks and will see what happens. Unless my understanding is wrong WCG has generated a New Cross Project Identifier which I guess is why my stats are not showing in Free-DC . I will have to do a separate inquiry for WCG with the new CPI presumably. Why did they have to do this I wonder and not keep the old one which I have had for years.

Forget about the "new" Cross Project ID. I have had the same message many times previously, and it is not a new ID, it's the same as before. It's yet another strange new issue with WCG.

And it's not the External CPID either, it's what is called <host_cpid> in the client_state.xml

Thanks for that explanation.

Hope they fix the download of the binarys when joining new hosts soon. So sad to see workunits dropping in but not on the new ones cos it cant download the windows mcm*.exe and the "linux thingy" ^^

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In reply to dskagcommunity's message of 24 Apr 2026:

Hope they fix the download of the binarys when joining new hosts soon. So sad to see workunits dropping in but not on the new ones cos it cant download the windows mcm*.exe and the "linux thingy" ^^

Do you have an older host you can copy the windows exe and or the Linux thingy from. I have done that in the past when CPDN was having problems.

I am getting new tasks, but many are aborted by project.

And some do this:

Fri 24 Apr 2026 07:41:19 AM EDT | World Community Grid | [error] MD5 check failed for MCM1_0247065_5011_MCM1_0247065_5011.txt
Fri 24 Apr 2026 07:41:19 AM EDT | World Community Grid | [error] expected d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e, got c433be0e6fbcee0fd3d5a0213cb5ed8b
Fri 24 Apr 2026 07:41:19 AM EDT | World Community Grid | [error] Checksum or signature error for MCM1_0247065_5011_MCM1_0247065_5011.txt

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In reply to Jean-David's message of 24 Apr 2026:

I am getting new tasks, but many are aborted by project.

And some do this:

Fri 24 Apr 2026 07:41:19 AM EDT | World Community Grid | [error] MD5 check failed for MCM1_0247065_5011_MCM1_0247065_5011.txt
Fri 24 Apr 2026 07:41:19 AM EDT | World Community Grid | [error] expected d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e, got c433be0e6fbcee0fd3d5a0213cb5ed8b
Fri 24 Apr 2026 07:41:19 AM EDT | World Community Grid | [error] Checksum or signature error for MCM1_0247065_5011_MCM1_0247065_5011.txt

Oh yes, the system is bonkers now. Tons of Server aborted, and also some MD5 errors.

See: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=710936

I have tried, id failed so hard i had to detach fully from the project and reattach cos boinc manager still said "Download stalled" and thinking the files are still not there. no matter what i was doin. restart client etc. So i think that status on live files is stored anywhere.

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DSKAG Austria: http://www.dskag.at