With respect to the thread title, it was given before the extent of the the issues was known.

This has been planned for months and the people who run CPDN have been doing so for a long time. This is absolutely not about management "rushing".

While I can't say if https://climateprediction.net had any message about the upcoming changes and can't check since the old pages are now gone, at least on the BOINC side where was no forum messages telling about upcoming outage and no notice in BOINC to tell about upcoming outage.

For a "planned for months" multi-day outage, I would expect a BOINC notice and possibly a forum post posted example Monday 09. September that said something along the lines of:
"On Friday 13. September 2024 at 14:00 UTC Climateprediction.net will start on a planned outage that is expected to last until Monday 16. September, but can take longer.
During the outage you can't report trickles, finished models, ask for more work, access forums or any of the other web-pages.
After the outage Climateprediction.net will have changed to CPDN.org and BOINC pages will have switched from www.cpdn.org to main.cpdn.org."

Instead, very unexpectedly on Friday 13. September BOINC client failed scheduler requests to Climateprediction.net and trying to open-up any of the pages to see if this is a local or more global problem just had none of the Climateprediction.net or www.cpdn.org pages working at all. Since other web-pages did work, it indicated unexpected Climateprediction.net problems with no idea on why things don't work and no indication time it would be fixed.

Things not going as planned during a planned outage isn't the problem, it's the lack of pre-outage warning that is the main problem since this means from users point-of-view this definitely was unexpected outage.

That the originals errored out with 0 run time and your running ones have produced a first zip suggests a problem with the original computer rather than the tasks.

There will be a new batch going out in the next few days for the New Zealand 25km configuration (nz25). There will be a subsequent batch afterwards, but not soon due to storage constraints.

Latest update from JASMIN Support:

'We are anticipating that it will take until Monday to get the machine back now. Sorry for the inconvenience.'

Latest communication to Andy. Sorry folks.

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