I thought they said they distibuted x amount of those small tasks, as Sek noted if you look at the C in the beginning part of the WU, they higher the number the longer it takes.

Thought they dipped down to a batch of small WU C22-23? maybe less, and it seems we have been working our way back up, and I would personally expect it to continue.

EDIT: found cleanenergy's response from short WU:

Hi everybody
we mentioned this in another thread already but just to make sure that no one is left in the dark: We have submitted a bunch of smaller molecules to the feeder a while ago and these will run quite quickly. There are about 2-3 million of these smaller motifs in the queue until we reach previous levels. The size will gradually increase as it has done before. Hope this explains the recent behavior - no need to worry at all!
Best wishes
Your Harvard CEP team

Good observation, ibsteve2u.

My guess is that we are moving through a library of molecules that are organized somehow into similar shapes. So sections of the library will require similar computation times that increase or shorten in unison.

Just a guess on my part.

Lawrence

Ah, ibsteve, now I see what you're saying. Cleanenergy, the question is about "how high" will these run times get in the long run? After that batch, we picked up where we left off, and has been steadily increasing. How much "bigger' will the runtimes get? Or, maybe how much bigger will the molecules get etc.?

The "most excellent chart" is apparently not good enough since somehow 8.1 hours mean was read from the Y-Axis, when in fact the data and table on right for current day and 7 day average indicates 7.6 hours until yesterday... so have granulated the axis further to show 20 steps stead of 10. Have also overlaid a centered mean trend line on top of the daily curve. Obviously, being centered, the curve will lack 4 days.

Just today we have a little spike of 7.9 hours in morning session. Also, whilst the chart goes back 6 months, Aug-Sept 2011 we ran close to 9 hours average on a near continuous basis with a peak day of 9.1 hours, so don't see anything extraordinary... the repetition of a trend while working through a regular structured compound libraries. Whence we get to have ''no time limit" [optional for the volunteer as well, which I think to have seen will still be constraint at 24 hours], we'll learn if this has any impact upwards [and maybe slower device owners bowing out]. Only seeing 1 in 20 on my near 6 year old quad that actually hits the 12 hour barrier.

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