The BOINC server move is ... COMPLETE!
(The PRPNet server has not yet moved.)
We moved PrimeGrid's BOINC system (
www.primegrid.com) to a new server on Saturday, February 9th.
According to plan, the PRPNet server (prpnet.primegrid.com) was NOT moved on Saturday, so the PRPNet ports and web pages should were not affected. PRPNet will move at a later, as yet undetermined date. PRPNet ports that will be eventually be affected when the PRPNet server is moved are: GCW, Primorial, Factorial, GFN32768, GFN65536, 27, and 121.
The PrimeSearchTeam forums, used for manual sieving, are not affected and should remain up during the PRPNet move, as will the upload and download servers for manual sieving.
What should you do?
If you increased your cache size in preparation for the move, you can put it back to your regular settings.
In case the forums are down (this is NOT expected), you can use our chatroom at
http://www.chatzy.com/46334617429062 to get updates or to communicate with us. The chatroom is an external site and won't be affected by the outage. You may wish to save or bookmark that URL.
When will this happen?
The web server, forums, and BOINC server were moved on Saturday, February 9th.
The PRPNet server will be moving at a later date sometime in February.
Does this affect the upcoming challenges?
Yes, it should ABSOLUTELY affect the Valentine's Day challenge! The new server appears to be significantly faster than the old server, so we're hoping for a nice, smooth challenge. We may need to tweak some tuning parameters, but so far we're very pleased with the performance on the new system.
We were down for a few hours, so that may have caused some difficulties for hosts trying to connect to get work for the Tour de Primes, but hopefully the affect was minimal.
The effect on the ongoing cleanup phase for the Year of the Snake challenge should be negligible.
Will PrimeGrid's URL or IP address change?
The URL did not change. The IP addresses DID change. The process of converting to the new IP should have been handled automatically by the DNS system and should require no action on your part, although it may take up to 24 hours for the mapping to propagate through the DNS servers. However, if for some reason you are using hard-coded IP address for PrimeGrid, you'll need to change them.
If your BOINC client is having trouble connecting to PrimeGrid, try rebooting your computer.
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