I have now had a few tasks but the supply is a bit on the sporadic side.

Impressed that it got sorted over a weekend. Android phone seemed to take longer than everything else to start behaving normally. Now just waiting for validation backlog to get sorted. Not a biggie so long as work keeps coming though it may be an issue for the scientists doing the research.

It is not really working,,,

Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:19:40 PM EDT | World Community Grid | update requested by user
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:19:43 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:19:43 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Reporting 13 completed tasks
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:19:43 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:19:45 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:19:45 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Another scheduler instance is running for this host
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:19:45 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Project requested delay of 121 seconds
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:21:51 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:21:51 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Reporting 13 completed tasks
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:21:51 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Sun 22 Mar 2026 06:21:52 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

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Looks like project details are wrong somewhere did tasks over the weekend that are not showing in the results and a task from the 14th is showing but is not on any of my machines. Not convinced the pending validation is up to date either.

I am now getting

Mon 23 Mar 2026 08:37:35 AM GMT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Mon 23 Mar 2026 08:37:58 AM GMT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon 23 Mar 2026 08:37:58 AM GMT | World Community Grid | Another scheduler instance is running for this host

on all computer instances of BOINC. I have one task on Android that will finish in a few hours and will see what happens when phone tries to request new work.

Am a bit reluctant to continue processing as I already have hundreds of hours work awaiting validation, just seems to be a black hole at present.

In reply to Hadrian's message of 23 Mar 2026:

Am a bit reluctant to continue processing as I already have hundreds of hours work awaiting validation, just seems to be a black hole at present.

I am not getting any more work at the moment so it is a moot point. On my account, the most recent task showing as validated is on the 11th this month. However very little is validated in the tasks that show up.

A new update:

March 23, 2026
Many issues identified and fixed after bringing the WCG backend online last week Thursday, March 19th, 2026 running the new Postgres-enabled BOINC v1.6.1 backend in production: We found multiple missing indexes in our Postgres schema that the small scale of our staging environment did not reveal as necessary. We also had to setup the Postgres extension pgbouncer to pool connections to on each Postgres worker node to pool the large number of connections, and address multiple oversights in our CDC pipeline that resulted in incorrectly decoding user prefs coming from MariaDB into Citus reference tables, and no stats updates for the first few update windows on the website since we came back online. The credit_flusher that gathers the global view of what results need their state updated in MariaDB from the Citus coordinator was omitting key columns from those updates. We also had to iterate on MariaDB binlog settings together with Kafka to get CDC working in prod. With the bottleneck load now spread across the IOPS available to 6 servers without requiring a full migration of the legacy BOINC database which is under 100% disk utilization for the first time at the new site while under production load, we are now going to be able to clear the validation backlog, launch and resume projects, fix the daily stats on the website, resume the stats dump, and fix the results page so that Volunteers can verify the state of their backlogs. A server status page has been implemented in our staging environment, we plan to push it to the live site this week or next.

We have one major issue with one of the six backend servers at the moment (3pm UTC); we have reached out to hosting for assistance: We were able to recover the Postgres cluster morning of March 23rd, 2026 (EST time) from the crash yesterday March 22nd, but this 1/6 postgres worker is behaving differently than the other partitions despite identical config and executables running on it. It has become unresponsive again, and we reached out to hosting about this in case it is hardware or cloud. We have blocked that server at the load balancer from receiving scheduler requests, so the download and reporting path should be functional for all requests now, but uploads mapped to that server will continue to display HTTP transient errors until we resolve the problem.

Thank you Hans for posting the update.

I think they have built a way too complicated system, compared to the standard BOINC setup. I fear that they need 24/7 tech support to keep it running. Too many points of failure by the looks of it.

I think they have built a way too complicated system, compared to the standard BOINC setup. I fear that they need 24/7 tech support to keep it running. Too many points of failure by the looks of it.

I have long thought that on leaving IBM they should have reverted to a standard BOINC server installation. One only flogs a dead horse for so long before giving up.

In reply to Dave's message of 23 Mar 2026:

I think they have built a way too complicated system, compared to the standard BOINC setup. I fear that they need 24/7 tech support to keep it running. Too many points of failure by the looks of it.

I have long thought that on leaving IBM they should have reverted to a standard BOINC server installation. One only flogs a dead horse for so long before giving up.

Yeah, but after, or during, the latest migration from Graham cloud to Nibi, August 29, 2025, they decided to complicate the system even more. They thought they could easily improve on the "old", partly IBM, partly BOINC system, but it sure wasn't/isn't easy. That's the main reason why WCG haven't returned fully yet. It's been 6 months; 3 weeks; 2 days now, since then, and IMO we're far, from a stable system yet.

Just reading through the Operational Status messages from August 2025, make me dizzy.....

WCG is back(ish). New work is available. Don't expect it to be perfect though. Lots of stuff is not working as they should.

In looking at My Contributions the History File is up to date showing work done over the weekend and yesterday. My Results table shows nothing after the 11th March as, obviously a mismatch somewhere.

I get bunches of these. Is it me or is it them? What is a lost task?

Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:06 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:06 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1871_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1762_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1901_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_2549_1 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1872_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1920_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1859_1 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_2459_1 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_2519_1 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:12:08 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1786_0 (expired)
....
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:16 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:16 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1871_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1762_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1901_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_2549_1 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1872_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1920_0 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1859_1 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_2459_1 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_2519_1 (expired)
Tue 24 Mar 2026 08:23:19 PM EDT | World Community Grid | Didn't resend lost task MCM1_0248272_1786_0 (expired)

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Whatever page I try to open this morning all I get is
this error;

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource.🤔

No problems with uploading/downloading Wus 😊

In reply to Jean-David's message of 25 Mar 2026:

I get bunches of these. Is it me or is it them? [b]What is a lost task?

In Seti@home speak a Ghost Task.
You contacted the server, the Scheduler responded, you asked for work, the Scheduler allocated it to you.
But due to some network glitch, you didn't actually download it; whether that glitch was you, them or your ISP- no real way of knowing.
If many other people are getting the same issue, then it's very likely a project network issue. If it's just you, then very probably an ISP issue (or congestion on you local network if you're sharing a connection with a bunch of other people).

As far as the project is concerned, you received it, but you didn't actually manage to download it to your system.
And the (expired) part- it's too late to download them anyway as their deadlines have already passed.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

... EDIT. Question was answered by Grant (SSSF).

In reply to Hans Sveen's message of 25 Mar 2026:

Whatever page I try to open this morning all I get is
this error;

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource.🤔

No problems with uploading/downloading Wus 😊

Log out, and delete all WCG cookies from your browser, and log in again. Several other users have had the same problem, and deleting all WCG cookies seems to be the solution.

In reply to Hans Sveen's message of 25 Mar 2026:

Whatever page I try to open this morning all I get is
this error;

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource.🤔

No problems with uploading/downloading Wus 😊

Pages now opening normally.

After running CrapCleaner running normal, Thank You Grumpy👍