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Dear collaborators,</div>
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The last two weeks has seen MCwrapper-bot struggle to produce MC. The reasons were two-fold; the first affected the use of our singularity container. Once remedied all submitted jobs began instantly failing at UConn. Since UConn typically makes up a large
chunk of our OSG cycles the vast majority of jobs submitted failed. There is a mechanism to "hold" jobs that fail more than a set amount of times. Almost all jobs of all submitted projects triggered this condition. Being out of town I was unable to manually
over-ride this switch and the decision was eventually made to blacklist UConn until remedied. This allowed jobs to run although at a lower rate and only when manually prompted by myself. Richard, Edgar, and myself investigated and the problems seems to have
been resolved (thanks to a patch by Edgar) as of Thursday late afternoon. This delayed many projects for more than a week. Many projects have been finished and there are a couple still slowly working their way through.</div>
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Sorry for the delay.</div>
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Thomas<br>
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