Kudos to Bruce!

Thank you very much.

I spent most of a day babysitting our servers after restarting the project. At one point we had about 300 machines simultaneously uploading results and downloading new work. The only real bottleneck was validation, and I was able to fix that by running five copies of the validator at the same time.

We really try hard to keep the project up and running 100% of the time. Unfortunately we have still not received any project funding, although I am quite hopefull that the US National Science Foundation will provide funding for us in the future. If this happens we can hire a couple of professionals to help take care of our hardware and software, which should greatly improve our reliability and capability to deal with unexpected problems.

Cheers,
Bruce