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Message boards : News : Statement on the recent disruption to the climateprediction.net project
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Send message Joined: 11 Feb 11 Posts: 15 Credit: 53,909 RAC: 0 |
We profoundly apologise for the disruption of the last few days to the project. We apologise for any lost workunits you have had during this period. Any workunits that were aborted during this period you will receive full credit for. This period represents an attempted rebranding of the project. Any future change on this scale including to the name of the project to be more representative of the research supported will be completed following significant testing to reduce impact. For the foreseeable future we will continue to use the name 'climateprediction.net'. Please use the project forum if you have any questions. |
 Send message Joined: 13 Aug 06 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,127,678 RAC: 461 |
Thank you so much! Your team is doing essential work and helping to improve climate and weather models, which is undoubtedly necessary in the context of the global climate crisis to better understand the processes taking place. 
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Send message Joined: 31 May 18 Posts: 53 Credit: 4,725,987 RAC: 9,174 |
@rebranding@ means two things - Someone allowed a marketing drone out of their enclosure and even worse actually listened to them - The organisation considers it's brand a failure. Neither are positive. |
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Send message Joined: 29 Oct 17 Posts: 1067 Credit: 17,020,946 RAC: 5,160 |
No. It means the focus of the work CPDN now do is different to when it was first set up many years ago. It's moved from long climate simulations per se and towards climate impacts, energy systems and more. See the new website for details: https://climateprediction.net/. --- CPDN Visiting Scientist |
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Send message Joined: 6 Aug 04 Posts: 195 Credit: 28,836,638 RAC: 3,986 |
... It means the focus of the work CPDN now do is different to when it was first set up many years ago. It's moved from long climate simulations per se and towards climate impacts, energy systems and more. See the new website for details: https://climateprediction.net/.Yes, everything has moved on. There is a lot more on the new website, notably the resources for schools. Thank you. |
 FarscapeSend message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 3 Credit: 6,447,544 RAC: 4,837 |
On 9/5/2024 I removed my account because of your "disruption". Up until then I was steadily processing 2 tasks per machine. I reattached 2 days ago after seeing messages saying issues have been resolved. Although the computers show on the website, I can't receive new work. Why? |
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geophi Send message Joined: 7 Aug 04 Posts: 2187 Credit: 64,822,615 RAC: 5,275 |
On 9/5/2024 I removed my account because of your "disruption". Up until then I was steadily processing 2 tasks per machine. It would appear as though there are no new tasks at this time. https://main.cpdn.org/server_status.php |
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Dave Jackson Send message Joined: 15 May 09 Posts: 4558 Credit: 19,039,635 RAC: 18,944 |
Although the computers show on the website, I can't receive new work. CPDN often has periods without any new work, a consequence of much of the work not being produced by Oxford but the project being paid to distribute the work by universities around the world who are doing the research. It is worth keeping an eye on the New work 2024 thread for information about new batches. Please don't use that thread for discussion. Periodically when it is abused too much, a moderator will clear out extraneous posts. |
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Send message Joined: 17 Oct 18 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,888,375 RAC: 3,701 |
Welcome back :) CPDN.org was unreachable for me for quite a while and it's back today... Any news or info on what happened? 
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Send message Joined: 22 May 21 Posts: 40 Credit: 1,358,470 RAC: 3,528 |
In reply to flensr's message of 5 Mar 2025: Welcome back :) Check out the thread "News and Announcements 3" under the "Number Crunching" Forum. We are going to be taking the main CPDN project down tomorrow (Thursday) at 3pm (UK time). This will be for an extended period of time of between a week, and a week and a half. This is in order to do an extensive amount of work on the main server where the project is residing. We apologise for any inconvenience during this time. it was postponed a few times but finally got started on 10 Feb. It looks like it took a bit longer than expected. Nice to have this back! Bull |
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Send message Joined: 29 Oct 17 Posts: 1067 Credit: 17,020,946 RAC: 5,160 |
In reply to flensr's message of 5 Mar 2025: Welcome back :)The system was down for some much needed system and important security updates. What takes the time is making a backup of the BOINC databases and moving them safely from old to new operating systems. --- CPDN Visiting Scientist |
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