RS down for anyone else?

Has anybody been able to reach RS? Its been down since (forum & WU server) June 28th. That project has been on and off regularly this year. Frankly, I'm ready to give up on it, but I'm soo close to a million credits there.

Yes.
Riesel Sieve is down due to an unscheduled server relocation.

" The Riesel Sieve Project - Down for (untimely) Relocation - Status: Unknown"

I was in contact with bryanUC yesterday.
I am waiting for him to come back online tonight (UTC+10)
I will supply more information here as it comes.

AMDave it is most unusual for the RS server to be down so long and for Bryan not to post any messages in either our forum, Free-DC or the Arsians.

I have heaps of tasks that are waiting to either upload or report so I hope their new location has a big fat pipe to the internet. :)

I will pass that on to him.
Still not online, yet.

He did post over at Ars here but it's basically saying he know nothing either. Apparently Lee was moving the server into his basement and from then he's gone completely silent..

Bryan was online, but there is no news yet.
Waiting for update from b2.

Some news - not much.

Relocation still in progress.
b2 still working on the technical issues.

Still waiting for b2 to come online.

More soon hopefully.

Guess this project is dead. Moving on.

Hi Alex64.

Yeah, I am disappointed not to be able to bring any news since my last post, but the reality is that there is none as yet.

I am continuing to monitor the channel and will post as soon as I find out anything new.

Yeah, the lack of information is appalling. As the Tel$ta advert says "Not happy Jan".

Credit for this post goes to Sunray_11A on the University of Houston's BOINC Virtual-Prairie Project's forums but it fits BOINC Riesel Sieve aptly too:

It seems as though the people who are 'supposedly' in the know here cannot be bothered letting the rest of us know anything at all.

C = cant get work
R = resent lack of info
A = am annoyed as hell
P = p****d off with the entire project.

:cussing:

In the interest of consolidating discussion & moving our efforts forward, I have set up a small forum as a new 'command post' for the Riesel Sieve project, on one of our alternate domains, dc.rieselsieve.com. Since I don't have a copy of the database, anyone would have to re-register to post, but I plan to have this be the central communications point moving forward.

Bryan
Stats Administrator
BOINC Developer
Riesel Sieve Project

Here is the forum link for us dodo's:

http://dc.rieselsieve.com/viewforum....722e57da887df1

Doh! or this one (main forum index...)

http://dc.rieselsieve.com/index.php

Thanks for the info Bryan. It's good to get some news.

:icon_thumright:

From http://www.primegrid.com//all_news.php#74

Basically, the project creator has disappeared. People have been in contact with him, but we haven't heard any resumption date or even if things will resume. For the time being, I'm focusing my efforts on getting the non-BOINC side of the project up, as it is far easier and requires far less resources. We do not have access to any of the databases or we would have been able to restore things even without the project creator.

Fortunately that news is out of date already.

The sensible news has already been updated here

At least that's some fairly good news. Fingers crossed.

Quote:

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This is Lee. I will restore most of our severs at Riesel Sieve in the near future. 'Near Future' doesn't mean now...tomorrow...or two days from now. It may mean this weekend if I have the energy, time, and equipment/supplies to bring us back online. I regret the sudden suspension of our project with no notice. It was caused by forces outside my control and our project remained down until certain issues were taken care of. The last few weeks has only been laziness on my part and Bryan shouldn't be blamed for any of it. I look forward to restoring this project to its once former glory and I appreciate all the support and help each of you have given Riesel Sieve over the years. I apologize for the continued downtime since there is no valid reason beyond time and simple laziness for non-restoration from this point forward. I ask for patience but don't expect any...I would pretty jumpy too if I were in your place.

Look for servers to be up in the 'Near Future'

Lee Stephens
Riesel Sieve

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Source
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Anything new out there anywhere regarding anything on this project, or is it just a buzz-off to all the contributors of both the manual and the boinc efforts?

It looks like there is finally some changes to the new website...

http://dc.rieselsieve.com/index.php

I could be mistaken but this project may be coming back finally.

Most all of the links on the site do not work. But at least there is now a difference in what is shown.

Time will tell. It's taking a lot longer than anyone expected. if it does come back, then it will be interesting to see how many people do return, and exactly what parts of the project will return. They had mentioned that the boinc part wouldn't be returning for some time as that takes a lot of hardware to bring it back, which evidently isn't going to be there for some time. So that would leave it at the manual part of the project. Which was fine, I enjoyed that part for a long time, but when the boinc stuff basically took over then I moved on. I don't think that many boinc players will return to it if only the manual part of the project returns.