My climateprediction.net project is not getting any work since long ago.

I ultimately decided to uninstall BOINC, delete all files from programdata\boinc and reinstall BOINC, then added the project again but I keep getting the same message in the status field:

Communication deferred.

Anyone else with this issue? I'd love to contribute.

Thank you,

Your computers are hidden so I don't know which operating system you are using. When you get the communication deferred message do not keep hitting the update button as this will just restart the clock. There are currently tasks available for Windows. If you are running Linux then you will need to install WINE and then the windows client or use a VM. There is currently a batch of Linux work in testing which is likely to result in work for that platform within a week or so all being well.
You should be aware that most of the work for CPDN is managed by the project but comes from scientists around the world making the supply of work erratic with times of both famine and glut. If you want your machine to crunch all the time you will need at least one or two backup projects for the times of famine.

The project-set deferral period at this project is 1 hour (3636 seconds), whatever the outcome of the update. New work will never be issued if you request it during this period.

You need to look more deeply (BOINC's Event Log is recommended) to see the state of play.

Good afternoon,

Somehow I missed your replies as I did not get any notification because I forgot to subscribe to the thread. I had given up on this issue as I could not find anything wrong with my setup, firewall traffic is allowed for the app and so. From what I can see in the log files, there seems not to be any work to be delivered.

Can you please confirm?

Please see attached log file:

14/01/2025 19:35:42 | climateprediction.net | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
14/01/2025 19:35:42 | climateprediction.net | Requesting new tasks for CPU
14/01/2025 19:35:43 | climateprediction.net | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
14/01/2025 19:35:43 | climateprediction.net | Project has no tasks available
14/01/2025 19:35:43 | climateprediction.net | Project requested delay of 3636 seconds
14/01/2025 19:37:42 | | Suspending computation - CPU is busy
14/01/2025 19:38:02 | | Resuming computation
14/01/2025 19:42:35 | | Suspending computation - CPU is busy
14/01/2025 19:42:55 | | Resuming computation
14/01/2025 19:43:15 | | Suspending computation - CPU is busy
14/01/2025 19:43:35 | | Resuming computation

It's been like this for ages ...



Thank you,[/img]

Quite simple: check the server status and see if there is work available, and just now there's none.

As to your repeated suspend/resume cycle - I had that some time ago when my mouse decided it was going for a walk, which actually turned out to be a faulty mouse. Something resting on the keyboard "just wrong" enough to say "key pressed", but no key being pressed might also do the same. Or any one of a myriad background processes being just a bit too active (AV software has, in the past, caused this sort of activity)

And if you want to know what future work is planned, look/subscribe to the 'New Work Announcements' thread under 'Number crunching'.

Thank you for the advice!

Thank you for the advice!