An update about recent and upcoming technical activities at World Community Grid.
We have also successfully completed two hosting environment changes. The first one was for our network infrastructure, and the second one was an update to our database servers. Members have already noticed the increase in speed for daily stats updates, as a result of phase 1 of this upgrade.
We still have some work that needs to be done to our hosting environment. First is going to be a change to our network infrastructure to update a configuration setting to help correct some of the feeder issues members have noticed. This is scheduled to take the website entirely offline for 8 hours, but I estimate it will be closer to 1 hour. The next hosting change is to complete phase 2 of our database server update. This should take the BOINC servers offline for the course of this change. The website should still be accessible during this time. At this time, I do not have an estimate for how long this change will take. We will post announcements about these two events here, in the News section of the website, notifying you of when they are going to happen.
On the application side, we are still working to onboard a few new science applications, as well as fix an issue with one of the current applications. As has been stated in the past, we do not release information about upcoming projects, so I have no further information about that at this time.
The work units for the Uncovering Genome Mysteries (UGM) project currently write to the disk frequently. We are still testing the changes in alpha, to reduce this activity, as well as making sure checkpointing within the application remains stable. We will be promoting the application to beta when a version has a successful run through alpha testing.
As always, thank you for participating in World Community Grid and contributing to the humanitarian research projects that have benefitted from your generosity!