The Scottish Boinc Team

Posted: **Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:15 pm**

http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/

Bearnol needs to get even geekier as this server seems to be unavailable with annoying regularity

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Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:49 am**

If I lose crunched work during this latest failure then it'll be the 3rd time this year & I'll be outta here

I'd like to support a UK project but not at the expense of wasting completed WU with such regularity

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2020 11:23 pm**

Looks like you should offer to run the project server on one of your Threadrippers in order to maintain serviceability...

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:50 am**

davidbam wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:49 am If I lose crunched work during this latest failure then it'll be the 3rd time this year & I'll be outta here

I'd like to support a UK project but not at the expense of wasting completed WU with such regularity

There seems to be a new spell of unavailableness at the Wanless server

Posted: **Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:52 pm**

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:50 am
davidbam wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:49 am If I lose crunched work during this latest failure then it'll be the 3rd time this year & I'll be outta here

I'd like to support a UK project but not at the expense of wasting completed WU with such regularity
There seems to be a new spell of unavailableness at the Wanless server

And not just a spell: it's curtains. Bearnol has retired, his server is crashed.

Hi Dirk,
Thanks very much for your concern. Actually I’m fine thanks - hope you are too - though project is no more
Regards,
James

and

You’re right, the server has crashed - probably beyond repair - and although I have replacement servers available (and even a very recent backup), I think the time has come really to move on, much as I’ve enjoyed my time with BOINC…
There are other factors of P2203 already known, and theoretically we could/could have found them, as well as possibly even some new one(s), but I have been gradually coming to realise that my algo would really only work significantly better on larger numbers, and given that I’m close to retirement anyway I didn’t quite have the energy to change the setup on the server to target a larger M+2 — maybe I’ve just grown too attached to P2203 over the years :)

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