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Some good news.  The servers have continued to improve (25-30% failure now, which means that at least 1 out of 2 attempts should work, so only ~2 retries should be…

We know this is an issue of concern, so I’ll be publishing daily updates until it’s taken care of for good.  As posted in update #3 yesterday, we expect it…

We’ve been working constantly the last few days to improve the PS3 situation.  Based on our statistics, the situation has gotten better.  A few days ago (at its worst), it…

The net was only down for about an hour and it looks like everything is back up.  That server room’s networking has now been upgraded to the new high speed…

Our network provider has scheduled a maintenance window for 4:00 AM to 6:00 AM, PST, on January 31 for one of our primary server rooms.  Access to parts of Folding@home…

We’ve been trying various server-side changes to improve the PS3 situation and have been in close contact with Sony.  We have some ideas which we will be implementing.  So far,…

Our FAH servers for PS3’s are getting hit pretty hard right now.  We are looking into whether this is a client problem (failure to backoff correctly during high loads) or…

We’re updating the hardware of our backup assignment server.  The switch over to the new hardware should occur today.  Note that this involves a DNS change and so we expect…

That server room that went down is back up and Del and Dan got all of the servers back up (no small feat).  We have the servers running FAH, but…