UQ[py]Lab "ConnectTimeoutError" for long analysis

Dear UQWorld community,

I have been running the Bayesian Inference (BI) module of UQ[py]Lab to solve an inverse problem with PCE metamodels. The BI has already worked successfully for some synthetic test cases.

I am using AIES, with 120 walkers and 3000 iterations. This results in a quite long analysis.
My previous analysis was successfull with these hyper-parameters, despite a quite long analysis time (95h).

I am now trying to set the value of a few of my parameters to reduce the parameter space dimension. When re-running the BI with the same hyper-parameters, I encountered an error :

ConnectTimeout: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘uqcloud.ethz.ch’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /update/2968517 (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x000002945A005F50>, ‘Connection to uqcloud.ethz.ch timed out. (connect timeout=None)’))

This error happened after a bit more than a 100 hours of analysis.

Note that the Session TimeOut is not a problem here, I set it up to a very high value in order not to encounter the Session TimeOut error.

Could you help me understanding what could be the cause of this ConnectTimeOut error ?

Could it be an internal time out parameter that overrides the user defined session time out ?

An other quick question: is there a way to access the results of previous analysis, or are they automatically destroyed ?

Thank you very much in advance for your insights on these questions.
Best regards,
Guillaume Gru
PhD student at ITES, Strasbourg University, France