[LHC@home] Downtime on Tuesday 17th November

The project will be down on Tuesday 17th November for an upgrade which will include changes to the Database.

View article · Sun, 15 Nov 2026 22:45:04 +0000

[Kessler@home] Project Downtime today (11/15/26)

Some small database maintenance is needed. The project should hopefully only be down for a few minutes, but just wanted to give everyone a heads up that you might encounter some error messages about the project being down or not being able to contact the project via BOINC. it should be pretty seamless for most people, but if it ends up being longer than a few mins, just know we'll be back ASAP.

probably happening in about an hour or so.

Ian

View article · Sun, 15 Nov 2026 20:24:49 +0000

[Kessler@home] New Badges

I added a new category for badges: Scenarios.

Each WU is 1 out of 400 different seeds for a single scenario. so when you complete 400 tasks, that's essentially completing 1 scenario. so there are now some targets for completing various amounts of scenarios.

see the full gallery here: Badges

View article · Sat, 14 Nov 2026 21:11:07 +0000

[Climateprediction.net] Unscheduled downtime

Apologies for our unscheduled downtime. This was due to a critical flaw recently discovered in the linux kernel related to networking (see: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432). If exploited a remote attacker could execute commands on the server. The decision was made at short notice to take our servers off-line.

Unfortunately, it took more than a week for Ubuntu to publish a fix. Although the exploit is difficult to achieve, in these days of AI enabled tools it was too much of a risk to the University systems to leave us online. The downtime was not related to the recent PHP vulnerability which was fixed before the kernel issue was announced.

We will get back to issuing work as soon as possible.

Other users running linux systems might want to make sure their kernels are up to date with patches.

View article · Fri, 13 Nov 2026 19:21:50 +0000

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