The revised date for launch will be May 24th, 2022, after Victoria day.
We were able to solve a redirection loop that caused much of the website to be unusable due to incorrect rewrite rules in Apache and their interaction with self-hosted DNS. Additional issues were then resolved that had resulted from the previously discussed necessary changes to the configuration of HAProxy, internal server certificates and thus domains, and IBM WebSphere.
We are now updating the content on the production website to include the updates that were published during downtime, porting the React dependency pin to version 17 from the current website hosted at www.worldcommunitygrid.org to the full-featured production website which was also affected. We then need to ensure functionality on all major browsers manually. Once finished, the website and forums will be good to go.
Finally, we were able to test BOINC client connections to our servers from newly created/registered accounts. While we were able to contact the BOINC scheduler and check for available workunits, we are now diagnosing a failure to validate the project key that occured in some cases.
On the server side, we were able to verify the flow of data from our research partners into the workunit management layer in our stack. Thus, this part is fully validated, and will proceed smoothly upon restart. We continue to assess readiness of the workunit management stack for launch together with the website.
QA testing has finally successfully finished and all the bugs have been resolved. Production environment is being tested right now.
Considering the unexpected issues we ran into with the QA system, we prefer to test it a couple of days further. The website and forum are ready to be relaunched, the production environment is successfully querying BOINC locally and we are going to restart BOINC slowly in the next few days.
We will provide further details in the next few days.
If you’d like to join us in finding a cure for COVID-19, Cancer, Ebola, AIDS, and other stuff, see the OP ( <-- clicky clicky! ) for links to get the downloads
…and as a service to my valuable, invaluable, and valuation readers, here’s the text of that article:
OPN1
OPN1 Project Update
Matt from OPN1 project provides an update on the lab work being performed while WCG was down
Published on: 24 Jun 2022
Hey everyone, Matt here with an update from the OPN1 science side.
First, I wanted to thank all of the volunteers on behalf of the entire lab. With the amount of compute time all of you donated to our project,we’ve been incredibly busy during WCG downtime to test a wealth of hypotheses generated. While I wish WCG downtime was vacation time for all of us in the lab, in reality it’s been crunch time as we try to work through all of the models you all have generated and gear up toward the reopening of the firehose of data that is the WCG.
While compute time is fast (it takes each of you less than a second to evaluate an individual molecule computationally), labwork is substantially slower. Since the grid has been offline, we have been focused on the analysis, and we’ve identified a number of compounds with good activity profiles. But confirming that activity, and validating the mode of action, take time, and it’s an iterative process; sometimes you discover the wetlab (as we call biology labs) conditions you were running just don’t answer the questions you were asking. But we’re narrowing in on the types of data we would need to have the confidence to give you, and the broader scientific community, more details.
And gearing up doesn’t just mean experimental work on the data you’ve already given us, it also involves lining up new targets, and new collaborators, for the next round. We’ve been happy to learn that Enamine is reopening their synthesis services after the war in Ukraine interruption, and we have a large number of collaborators ready to test any new hypotheses we generate. The next set of packages all of you will receive soon will be exploring new corners of chemical space against new viral targets, and we hope everything we’ve learned from the first round will inform an even more productive second round.
All of this is to say, while we know volunteers have been itching to get started again, from the perspective of the science this is perfectly timed, and we’re excited to catch the next wave of data you send our way.
tldr: they’ve done experimental work on the data provided from WCG and have new targets to explore.
If you’d like to join us in finding a cure for COVID-19, Cancer, Ebola, AIDS, and other stuff, see the OP ( <-- clicky clicky! ) for links to get the downloads
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