Climate Predicition has problems.
1 Jul 2005 22:57:52 UTC
Topic 189465
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A message Kajunfisher got from Crandles over at the surviving CPDN forums, as the rest of the site is down...
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I cannot get any of the BOINC pages (climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/...) to display anything other than error messages at present.
It is unfortunate that Tolu has been off ill this week. I am sure Carl has made some progress with sorting out some issues with the database and optimising it for speed and efficiency. It appears something has gone wrong just after Carl left on Friday night which is unfortunate timing I can only say I hope it is just some minor issue which will be fixed on Monday if not before.
The team have done much better this last week in keeping us informed, despite that last news item saying servers are up being somewhat at odds with the real position.
A bit of a mess really, but sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.
Sorry about this, I think we have to be patient again for a few more days.
Chris
Just as information.
Climate Predicition has problems.
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Ageless, you really had me thinking something different with your subject... Saying CPDN is "down for the count" really implies something much worse than just a temporary server outage - it means something is probably about to end!
The phrase comes from boxing where a fighter is knocked down on the mat and the referee begins the count to a knockout victory.
Seeing how everything only
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Seeing how everything only worked for two days... as it's down again at this moment, it may well come to an early end. But okay, let me check if I can change the heading.
(Better? :))