I have noticed that the pace of the batch numbers is speeding up from last week. Last week we were doing about 64 batches/day. Now its around 79-80 per day. At that rate we will reach the 902 batch by early Monday as you said. At 80 batches per day we would finish the series 9 in just over 11 days after it starts. If we continue to speed up it will be even sooner. I've not been seeing any "no work available" message, so I would guess we haven't hit the feeder limit yet.

I would attribute this speedup to people jumping on the project and then buffering up several days worth of work. I hope things slow down after the badge hunters fill up their buffers, otherwise I'm not going to make Sapphire.

Of course this is all just guessing and assuming that the series 9 batches will be sized similar to the series 8 batches. Uplinger has stated in other posts that he has new work until October. That doesn't match with our guesses so one of us is wrong The badge hunter in me hopes Uplinger is right...

Steve

We try to set the rate of work units sent out to a percentage of the grid. As some may have noticed there has been an increase in the speed on World Community Grid, this means more work units for all projects. At the moment, we are targeting about 7.5% of the grid. This is not easy to keep at with multiple projects running, some starting, some stopping. So a little bit of a variance in work units is ok. When I was referring to no increase I was referring to the method DDDT was finished. Where when we got the last batches we bumped the project from about 3% at that time up to 15%....This major increase will not happen. On a positive note, we have all of the final input for IADS and will be getting a better estimate for everyone in the next few days.

-Uplinger

Looks like after Influenza finishes we'll get a break. The next projexts look to last til '11.
Time for alittle system maint. and working on upgrading my 3 other badges.

Maybe even playing afew games