Please note that there will be a scheduled outage of this system on Friday 27th February, starting from 05h55
CAT. The outage is necessitated due to maintenance work at the data center and is expected to last for
approximately one hour, during which time the homepage will be switched out to the standby server.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
We experienced our first unexpected outage today.
At 16h40 CAT today, network connectivity to the server was interrupted. The server did remain up, as
console access was possible, however no other network interface or service on the server could be reached.
We became aware of the problem at 19h30 and notified the data center accordingly. The procedure to switch
the homepage was started, but by the time the news alert had been written, the datacenter had resolved the
problem with the server.
Uptime: 126 days, 16:39
Hello everyone and welcome to the African Grid Lab.
This is an ALPHA project, with no real work currently available.
The project was conceived as a result of the AIMS workshop on Volunteer Computing held in July 2007.
As far as I am aware, this is the second BOINC project borne from that event, with the first being UCT : malariacontrol.net. There may be more and
I'm sure someone will let me know if there are.
The goal of this project is to facilitate a laboratory environment
for BOINC based projects for participants that attended the workshop.
While participants may be well positioned to create the science applications,
hosting and maintaining a BOINC server may be a somewhat less appetizing
endeavour.
The offer to host science applications is not only restricted to African based
students, so we do welcome enquiries regarding our services, although the
resources are rather limited.
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