[World Community Grid] hitparade van week 37

[KuuKe]

Inhoudsopgave World Community Grid hitparades week 37

• DPC World Community Grid hitparade van 7 september 2025 - géén stats
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Statusupdate:

September 8, 2025
Over the weekend we were able to restore the DB2 databases for the website and forums.
It was a redirected restore that first required a fully containerized instance of DB2 running the same OS as we were in Graham cloud, and we ran into issues attempting the restore of the final backups. Both databases are now successfully restored, and we have moved on to containerizing Websphere and IBM MQ.
We were able to restore the BOINC database.
As part of our work on MAM1 we developed an integration testing environment and containerized the BOINC database.
We also did this for the BOINC server components (scheduler, upload and download servers with file_upload_handler, transitioner/validators/assimilators etc.).
Once we get IBM MQ and Websphere up, we will be able to bring the entire system online shortly afterwards.

[KuuKe]

Statusupdate:

September 9, 2025
We are finalizing IBM MQ <-> DB2 <-> BOINC db <-> website axis, which will allow us to bring up the website. If all goes to plan now - we should have the website up tonight.
Once that is solved - we will go through the BOINC stack to ensure nothing catastrophic will happen when once we let traffic through to the scheduler, upload/download servers. Then we can finally start letting the BOINC daemons manipulate state in the BOINC db.

[DerManiak]

KuuKe schreef op woensdag 10 september 2025 @ 06:02:
Statusupdate:

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De website van WCG zelf geeft nu in ieder geval een 503 melding, i.p.v. volledig onbereikbaar te zijn. Maar verder doet/werkt er nog niet veel.

[DerManiak]

Geen update gisteren, geen (werkende) website en nog geen BOINC-connectie...

[KuuKe]

Ben wel benieuwd of er nog voor het weekend opgestart gaat worden

[DerManiak]

KuuKe schreef op vrijdag 12 september 2025 @ 06:01:
Ben wel benieuwd of er nog voor het weekend opgestart gaat worden

You and me both...

[KuuKe]

En we hebben weer een update:

September 12, 2025
Configuration of Websphere and IBM MQ is taking longer than expected. We are moving all provisioning, build, and deploy stages for all repos from Ansible and Gitlab CI to Dockerfiles and docker compose files, which is a step that precedes running these containers as StatefulSets on Kubernetes. So far, we have functional containers for IBM MQ, Websphere, DB2, MariaDB, and all BOINC endpoints up and running, and what we are still struggling through is configuration.
This approach will benefit site reliability and scalability in an obvious way on Kubernetes, and will improve our development and QA lifecycles drastically. It was also necessary to preserve a maximum compatibility with the CentOS 7 virtual machines that the legacy stack was previously running on, a requirement for the redirected restore of the DB2 data for example, https://www.ibm.com/docs/...ming-redirected-operation.
So why are we not up, and when will we be up? We are debugging the entrypoint scripts for Websphere and IBM MQ containers. Website cannot be brought up until Websphere is up and configured correctly, receiving messages from all MQ sidecars across the stack, sending emails, etc. Each of the databases, the webserver, and the scheduler have to run MQ, and we are still adapting some of the previous mqsc and other runtime configuration for the MQ service to work with this new setup where each important container that requires one gets an MQ sidecar container that uses the Ubuntu 24.04 host VM network.