Currently a pending upload; I did try switching between WiFi and phone data (which sometimes is an issue; the phone can be stupid sometimes).

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In reply to JLDun's message of 14 Feb 2026:

Currently a pending upload; I did try switching between WiFi and phone data (which sometimes is an issue; the phone can be stupid sometimes).

Same here, the old "transient HTTP error", is back for some, but not all uploads.

World Community Grid 2026-02-14 22:13:32 Started upload of MCM1_0246961_4317_1_r564464645_0
World Community Grid 2026-02-14 22:13:34 Temporarily failed upload of MCM1_0246961_4317_1_r564464645_0: transient HTTP error
World Community Grid 2026-02-14 22:13:34 Backing off 01:42:56 on upload of MCM1_0246961_4317_1_r564464645_0

Not so temporarily though. That upload has been stuck for some time now. Retry gives the same error, while other uploads goes through without any problems. And also, there's no new tasks available now.

I have reported the problem to Igor Jurisica, and the tech team.

Hmm, seems to at least partially be a space issue with the uploads.

I got the following reply when trying to upload a short while ago:

World Community Grid    2026-02-15 06:01:29     Started upload of MCM1_0246974_9510_1_r1540058491_0   
World Community Grid    2026-02-15 06:01:32     [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't write file /dev/shm/boinc_cache/upload/335/MCM1_0246974_9510_1_r1540058491_0: No space left on server    
World Community Grid    2026-02-15 06:01:32     Temporarily failed upload of MCM1_0246974_9510_1_r1540058491_0: transient upload error    
World Community Grid    2026-02-15 06:01:32     Backing off 01:57:21 on upload of MCM1_0246974_9510_1_r1540058491_0

In the meantime, I ended up with two pending uploads, with several successful; the two just now uploaded in the past few minutes.

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I notice pending validation numbers have gone up again.

Some zero byte MCM1 tasks was dropping in all of a sudden. Run time about 10 seconds. Very strange....

Examples:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/contribution/workunit/822419299
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/contribution/workunit/822423728
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/contribution/workunit/822452797

Edit: I'm not alone obviously:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg...,45222_offset,3720#709701

Reported to the tech team.

Some zero byte MCM1 tasks was dropping in all of a sudden. Run time about 10 seconds. Very strange....

Examples:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/contribution/workunit/822419299
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/contribution/workunit/822423728
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/contribution/workunit/822452797

Edit: I'm not alone obviously:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg...,45222_offset,3720#709701

Reported to the tech team.

I get an error trying to view that forum:
You are not authorized to view this page

In reply to Dr Who Fan's message of 17 Feb 2026:

I get an error trying to view that forum:
You are not authorized to view this page

Sorry, the forum URL became truncated, when copied from the WCG forum, and pasted here. The right URL for that post is:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,45222_offset,3720#709701

New update:
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html

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Paul.

Here is a URL link to a new update dated Feb 19. 2026 from he Jurisica Lab that is the technical group behind the current WCG system operations.

Click on "Operations Status" in the Upper Right .....

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html


Respectfully
Bill F

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There was no expiration date.

New update on:
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html

February 21, 2026

Not a perfect state yet - but hopefully the systems are now stable enough. Congratulations to BOINC@AUSTRALIA for reaching 2,289,999 score on In Memory of Dylan Bucci - 2026 Challenge.
there is still time to join Dylan's challenge - it runs till March 9:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=11075

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Paul.

Not getting any better. 512 PV-jailed tasks, still waiting to be validated. Let's hope it gets better on Monday.
Validated PV-jailed task:
2026-02-22: 1
2026-02-21: 0
2026-02-20: 1
2026-02-19: 5
2026-02-18: 10
2026-02-17: 17
2026-02-16: 27
2026-02-15: 40
2026-02-14: 26
2026-02-13: 85

Even just running 2 cores for the project and that not 24/7 the number of tasks I have waiting for validation keeps going up not down. I see some of the newer tasks are getting validated however. If nothing is done about it a disk on one of the servers is surely going to fill up and things will fall over again.

From time to time on the WCG website:

System error
World Community Grid is currently experiencing an unexpected error. Please check Facebook or Twitter for more information.

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 27 Feb 2026:

From time to time on the WCG website:

System error
World Community Grid is currently experiencing an unexpected error. Please check Facebook or Twitter for more information.

I’m also getting the Forbidden error when trying to post on WCG forums.

NOT a project problem, a "I fluffed a device setting" problem...

I mistyped a number when setting a work buffer, so instead of 1.0 days, I typed 10. days, and of course it downloaded a bunch of work. With deadlines of March 4th, I'm expecting a few timeouts, of course.

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Just gonna take a guess, but set it back to 1. All the tasks should be done by the 4th. I think it calculates how much you can reasonably finish by the return date and then fills the queue with that amount of work.
I'm sure some wizard around here will let me know if I'm wrong. :-)

System error
World Community Grid is currently experiencing an unexpected error. Please check Facebook or Twitter for more information.

Still down. I can't say that WCG system error is "unexpected" any more though. They are very much expected......

Up/Downloading wus works again!