Albert@Home-homepage is down
24 Nov 2018 12:30:47 UTC
Topic 217016
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Hallo!
The homepage of Albert@Home is down since maximal 26h.
Kind regards an happy crunching
Martin
Up- and Download is fine, but
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Up- and Download is fine, but the page itself is unreachable. What's the problem?
Grüße vom Sänger
This is a narcissistic guess
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This is a narcissistic guess but I hope that website is taken down to fix something. I've seen a weird thing with Albert for about a week, though it's only graphical. Albert disappeared completely from my projects lists at all three projects I'm participating in. When I look at my projects I see there only 2 names, but there should be 2 + Albert. Even at my Albert account page it didn't show it's name on the list anymore until site went down.
Still I haven't had any problems running tasks during this weird period. Funny, my computer is running tasks for a ghost project that's not visible for me. I tried looking at my profiles also while logged out and noup, I can't see it there.
Also BOINCstats at least has been unable to gather data from Al' for some time. There's only zeros everywhere from the last week.
edit: It seems to have disappeared from other users' lists, I'm not alone. What's the connection between us. Did that large beam of light catch you too while you were a kid... and then you found yourself hovering in alien space ship...
astro-marwil
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I just learned about this and will look into the problem. It's a holiday weekend so things may be a bit slower to recover. I also don't know if the corss-project stats is related or not.
Einstein@Home Project
Richie wrote:Also BOINCstats
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Statistics exports are now a separate setting for accounts on Albert@Home. This is now default to Off for volunteers unless you consent to the statistics exports. You may find this option in Accounts -> Preferences -> Privacy. Please enable this option at Albert@Home, once the Web site works, and see if the cross-project table and BOINCStats now see your Albert@Home account.
Volunteers should be aware that this feature is being rolled out on Einstein@Home, as well as some other BOINC projects as part of GDPR compliance. You may need to enable the statistics exports on each project. I plan to make a more general announcement about this soon.
Einstein@Home Project
Shawn Kwang wrote:Statistics
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Okay, I enabled that option. I logged out, cleared cache and restarted web browser. Albert still isn't listed, but I assume it may take some time until the effect will take place.
I believe the stats are updated daily somewhere around afternoon ETC time. I'll keep looking on both things and will report back.
edit: Just to clear fuzz out of my message... BOINCstats has been able to include Albert on the list all the time (I see all my 3 projects there). It just hasn't been able to show the credits for any user running Albert lately. There's "0" on the boxes for credit 'per day' but also 'per week'. I remember seeing lack of updates happening now and then. Those blackouts of stats for 'daily' have typically lasted only a couple of days.
That GDPR connection sounds very logical reason for causing something like this. I'm sure things will return to normal soon.
I think the daily time for
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I think the daily time for stats updates for my projects have passed today. No fresh credits under Albert. Also I still can't see its name on the account pages.
Richie wrote:I think the
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Thanks for the update. Let's keep track of this here (this thread) if the situation changes. The problem is that I don't use many other BOINC projects other than Einstein@Home, so I can't easily test these kind of problems.
Einstein@Home Project
Hi Richie,I checked the A@H
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Hi Richie,
I checked the A@H stats exports and your user account as well as your hosts are exported as expected. If your details don't appear on certain downstream stats sites you want to let them know as there's something wrong with their data import. Just a guess: not sure how they handle someone apparently (for them, required by GDPR) having dropped out of the stats and then returning.
FYI, the website was down because of a DNS issue. Also, please keep in mind that it's our test site, so when it's down, it's down
Don't expect a restore in a specific timeframe as we always focus on E@H, not A@H.
Cheers,
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project
Yep, I see A@H at my project
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Yep, I see A@H at my project lists now. BOINCstats still doesn't have new numbers to show, but I understand well it's not up to things here. It's at their end. Maybe I'll try to contact them.
I hope I haven't sounded like any of these problems would shake up my nerves. If there's any problems it never really bothers me. Especially when it comes to A@H... ("anything can happen" and I respect that.... but it's also very interesting to be there... and if something happens... well, then here's always E@H for those couple of hosts too. Wonderful situation.)
Thank you again Shawn, Oliver and fellow users (not sorted in any order)!
Richie wrote:Yep, I see A@H
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Einstein@Home Project