in the last day i got a 046 and a 055 work units so they are still sending out older work units and has anybody gotten a 071 work unit yet

The project has 35,609 "lines" of work. Only one workunit can be in progress at a time for each line. Once that workunit finishes, we are able to take that result and send out the next "generation" of work for the line.

We had a couple of issues with the project. There were about 650 lines that were stopped due to a issue that we have now resolved. Some of these lines had been stopped as far back as generation 15. All but 7 of the lines are back running again and moving forward. You are seeing the older generations due to these lines being put back in motion. Here is the current distribution of how far along each line is:

number_of_lines current_generation_for_line 
--------------- --------------------------- 
1               017                         
1               020                         
2               021                         
1               022                         
1               023                         
1               024                         
5               025                         
3               026                         
7               027                         
10              028                         
3               029                         
8               030                         
8               031                         
6               032                         
5               033                         
5               034                         
10              035                         
8               036                         
6               037                         
13              038                         
8               039                         
16              040                         
9               041                         
7               042                         
13              043                         
10              044                         
8               045                         
10              046                         
9               047                         
11              048                         
10              049                         
12              050                         
11              051                         
15              052                         
18              053                         
19              054                         
19              055                         
26              056                         
34              057                         
18              058                         
33              059                         
40              060                         
29              061                         
45              062                         
30              063                         
47              064                         
41              065                         
58              066                         
143             067                         
4272            068                         
17922           069                         
8965            070                         
3597            071                         

As noted in this thread, lines that are behind get a boost to catch up by being marked as "need reliable". This results in them being sent to devices that have proved to be reliable in the past and are able to return the result quickly. They also have shortened deadlines.

We had been marking any line that was more than 2 generations behind as "need reliable" to catch it up. However, this was creating too many jobs that needed to be sent to reliable hosts and as a result, it was actually slowing things down because there weren't enough 'reliable' hosts to run the jobs relative to the number jobs that needed reliable hosts and thus regular hosts were blocked at times from getting regular jobs. We have changed this now so that any line that is more than 3 generations behind gets the boost. Based on the current distribution of generations, this means that any job that belongs to generation 67 or earlier will marked "need reliable".

Finally, there was about a 3-day backlog of jobs to be assigned. This means that once a workunit finished, there a 3-day delay before the next generation for the line was sent out. We have increased the weight of the project so that more jobs are going out. At this time there is about a 15 hour backlog. Over the next 3-4 days this backlog should be reduced to 0.

All of this is to say that we have been doing some work to get the project moving faster and this work should explain most of the comments that I saw above.

At this time, on average, about 19% of the lines complete a generation each day. This means that we should be advancing to the next generation about every 5.5 days. However, with the higher than normal "catch up" jobs there has been a delay in assigning generation 71 jobs. Right now the generation 71 jobs represent about 70% of the 15 hour backlog. I expect that we will start to see those go out in the next day or two. We will continue to advance to the next generation at a slower than normal pace for the next 7-10 days and then we should see expect pacing resume.

Hopefully, the good news is reliable hosts return the work well within the 3.5 day deadline which would shorten the catch-up period. My machines execute a WU in about 12 hours give or take a couple of hours.
I have re-enabled the project. It's looking like I will return about 30 per day running 3 concurrently per host.

i can confirm the 071 are out as i also just got one of the 071 work units

With 071s flowing, I would normally say that we are at about 38.8% of the way through the project, but the figures for stragglers are the equivalent of 3 generations, so 37.2%.

Mike