Sunday Report
ARP seems to be running smoothly.

This report has been rebased since the restart earlier last week. Any forecasts will be based on average throughput for the weeks availailable starting this week until 5 weeks are available whence it will be based.on the last 5 weeks.

There are still 3 ultras in generations 21 & 22.

The other classifications have stayed put..

There are now 356 extremes in generations 104 to 131. This includes 3 from 104 to 107 which have not moved. The earliest with more than 2 is now 115. The decrease of 278 being due to some now being classified as Accelerated.

There are now 5,746 accelerated units in generations 132 to 136 and 29,504 normal units in generations 137 to 146.

The highest generation to have had validations is 140.

Based on the 2 weeks, we would complete ARP1 in late 2027.

Mike

November 21st, 2024: 20,985 results.
Much of 2021 and 2022 saw similar returns.

With all the upgrades we're averaging around fifth of what we used to do.

After the first few days of results it was clear the server could handle a fifth. Why are we sticking with this bottleneck?

Yes, I went from 8 to 16 real cores last year. It seems like the only way I could hope to get close to running 16 on one machine is to have at least two more instances of BOINC running through ~VM's etc. Currently I have shut down the Windows one but have one running the daily build of Plucky.

When did we stop being on IBM ?? is 2022 still IBM days ?
I don't think that is a valid thing to compare anymore. We have what we have here, and we are grateful.
This last outage over December seems to have brought us some stability and faster uploads and downloads. I'm guessing they are still testing the limits of what can be done with it.
It must be remembered that WCG also took on the tasks that another group was doing and now doing the ARP WU generation as well. I'm sure we need to give them time to make sure that all is going smoothly in that bit as well.

I don't think the number of possible ARP WUs is a limiting factor at this point as we are only in the 140s right now and haven't sent out the higher generations yet. I think it could be a hardware/bandwidth limitation, or a ramping up/learning limitation.

I'll just say that I'm not running all the ARPs my machine could be running, but I'm very very grateful that I get to continue to process ARPs and see this project to completion, even if it is in 2027.

It's not that the project started right away with 20,000 results per day.
On 30 October 2019, in post 616077, former tech member armstrdj warned:In January 2020, an average of 2,000 results per day were returned. In February 2020, the number went up to 4,000. In March 2020, the average increased to 8,000. Till August 2020, this average didn't change much. Halfway August 2020, the number went up to ~ 12,000 results. June 2021 marked another high number: 14,000; July 2021: 16,000; August 2021: 18,000.
Then in late August 2021, one week of more than 20,000 results per day were turned in. This dropped to 16,000 results per day on average afterwards. In the last three months of 2021, there were about three weeks where more than 20,000 results per day were returned. After that the average was dropping to about 17,000 per day till mid February. After that, the transition was about to begin and the number dropped drastically as can be seen in my former post (#701404).

Adri