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Okay, good to know! Thanks.

Oh, interesting - I'd love to do some more investigation into this. I know NaCL's WUs come from a different assignment server than "traditional" work units - does anyone know if it's possible to have the normal fah client use this assignment server (via config options)? Or if it's easy to ...

Hm, that's a good question. My guess is no - we found that the low-powered instances (like t2.micro, the instance type provided in the free usage tier) couldn't finish work units before they expired (I think our t2.micro instance was on track to finish its work unit in about two months, haha). Howev...

We just published a blog post about our experiments running folding@home on AWS: http://blog.mapleavenuelabs.com/foldinginthecloud-foldinghomes-sweet-spot-on-amazons-aws/ It's mostly written for a general audience (we hope it might bring more people to the folding@home project), but we've systematic...

Now that I've started that machine back up to grab some logs, it looks like that same work server has now successfully assigned it a work unit, so all is well. Thanks for your help, Joe_H and bruce!

Forgot to mention - this is a linux client and it doesn't look like it has been assigned a project ("Project: 0").

I'm seeing the same behavior from the same work server since last night (about 12 hours ago). About every four minutes the logs show "Exception: Server did not assign work unit" and I've let that continue for several hours. And for some reason this machine doesn't want to go to a different...