Anyone know what is going on today? (October 19)

Server status page is all "green"

Queued jobs = 0

Been that way since early this morning (or what my well aged backside considers early) but not a peep from either the project staff or those of us in the cheap seats.

I am assuming this is NOT a sign that we have calculated all the solutions and everyone has gone out to celebrate.

Could someone hit me with a clue-stick??

My system has been out of Rosetta work for 8 hours but finally managed to get a new task about 30 minutes ago. The server status page says there is currently 27,390 tasks ready to send, so hopefully it was just a temporary glitch.

What the heck, when it rains, it pours - ask and you shall receive and all that good stuff.

After a short nap I checked again and we now have 2.5 million new jobs.

Another quality fix to a Mystical Rosetta problem. I must have just been seeing things ...

As long as I have your attention can you explain the difference between the number of jobs queued displayed on the home page and the number ready to send on the server status page?

Thanks

I must have just been seeing things ...

Nope. As I said, I also saw the drop in available work.

As long as I have your attention can you explain the difference between the number of jobs queued displayed on the home page and the number ready to send on the server status page?

Thanks

I think one of the project team explained it in a thread somewhere but I can't find it. From my limited understanding I believe there are two levels of work servers. The first level is the work distribution server which passes tasks from Rosetta to the participants; the number of tasks available at the first level is displayed on the server page as the "Ready to send" tasks. The second level is an internal project server that the scientists put their work on. When the first level runs low on work it pulls new tasks from the second level. The "Total queued jobs" figure on the home page is the sum of all tasks currently in the first and second level.

I believe the default BOINC behaviour is to only show the tasks on the work distribution server (usually tens of thousands of tasks). However I think the project team wanted to show participants a more accurate picture of the total amount of work available (usually millions of tasks).

Hopefully someone will post a correction if I got any of that wrong.