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07-04-11, 07:50 AM
On behalf of CPDN I am offering my apologies to all participants who have been in receipt of non-functional work units over the last few weeks.
The errors have been with the configuration files that were sent out with work units of the Hadam3p and Hadcm3n series. We should have checked the format of these configuration files prior to sending the work out to the volunteer community.
We acknowledge that the failed work units have resulted in unnecessary downloads, wasting the bandwith of our volunteers, and we have taken steps to try to minimise this effect in future releases by specifying that some 'common' configuration files should be retained by the BOINC client rather than deleted and released afresh with every work unit.
The technical team at CPDN are in the process of testing the current pre-releases work units for both of the above projects, and there should be new work available in a matter of hours.
Please accept our apologies for these errors. CPDN relies upon the volunteer community in order to function, and wishes to make clear that we do appreciate the time and resources that the community continues to donate.
Jonathan Miller
CPDN System Administrator


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