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This Week in MLC@Home Notes for Oct 12 2020
A weekly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home

Summary Happy 100 days, MLC@Home! On October 8th, MLC@Home passed 100 days old as a project, and early adopter badges were added to everyone with credit at that point. Thanks again for all your support.

Beyond that, we transitioned to our new server, which is quite a step up from the old one, and puts us in good shape for Dataset 3+4 validation and beyond. Read on for more information.

News:

• Dataset 3 WUs processing going fantastically, but a few stragglers remain before we hit the first milestone (100x100). New WUs have been released towards the next milestone (100x1000). We'll continue to trickle them out about 500 at a time, and update the scoreboard to keep track.
  We studied the the runtimes of dataset 3 WUs, and decided to increase the credit awarded for all new WUs. There are still old WUs in the pipeline that have the old credit value, and will take a while for those time finish, but new ones created will have more credit.
  We're testing a new, longer set of Dataset1+2 WUs in the mldstest application, with a longer runtime and a corresponding change in credit awarded. Datasets 1+2 continue also to make progress in parallel with Dataset 3.
  New server up and running. Thanks for your patience. There may need to be another quick downtime (15 minutes) to swap a disk around insice the machine, but otherwise its been running fine since Saturday afternoon.
  Old credit should be counted towards badges now!
  This doesn't effect anyone here, but the FLOPS estimate for dataset 3 is grossly underspecified (which is why the "GFLOPS" estimate below is so much lower than usual). We'll fix that in future WUs. It doesn't matter for users, but it helps convince other researchers if I can quote a (more) accurate GFLOPS estimate..
  Next up (in vague priority order): GPU support, Dataset 4, Dataset Release Paper writing, OSX support.

Project status snapshot:
(note these numbers are approximations)

Tasks Tasks ready to send 41238 Tasks in progress 21350 Users With credit 910 Registered in past 24 hours 47 Hosts With recent credit 2029 Registered in past 24 hours 58 Current GigaFLOPS 24544.93

Dataset 1 and 2 progress:
SingleDirectMachine 10002/10004 EightBitMachine 10001/10006 SingleInvertMachine 10001/10003 SimpleXORMachine 10000/10002 ParityMachine 804/10005 ParityModified 218/10005 EightBitModified 6221/10006 SimpleXORModified 10005/10005 SingleDirectModified 10004/10004 SingleInvertModified 10002/10002
Dataset 3 progress:
Overall (so far): 17197/30112 Milestone 1, 100x100: 9975/10000 Milestone 2, 100x1000: 17197/100000 Milestone 3: 100x10000: 17197/1000000

Last week's TWIM Notes: Oct 5 2020

Thanks again to all our volunteers!

-- The MLC@Home Admins

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