Just a heads up to the scientists to check if they have enough work units ready to cope with the increased capacity from the new users.

From the home page:

640,798 - Total queued jobs
904,402 - In progress
341,521 - Successes last 24h

34,117 - New hosts last 24h

229.9 - TeraFLOPS estimate


As of today the project has about 166% of the active hosts it had in June, when it was reaching 130 TFLOPS.

See the graphs at BOINC stats for more information.

Just a heads up to the scientists to check if they have enough work units ready to cope with the increased capacity from the new users.

From the home page:

640,798 - Total queued jobs
904,402 - In progress
341,521 - Successes last 24h

34,117 - New hosts last 24h

229.9 - TeraFLOPS estimate


As of today the project has about 166% of the active hosts it had in June, when it was reaching 130 TFLOPS.

See the graphs at BOINC stats for more information.

That didn't last.

The surge of new users came from Charity Engine, a company that uses distributed computing for paid work and allows participants a chance to win regular prizes. When the company is short of paid work they link the participant computers to one or more BOINC projects.

The sudden drop in Rosetta's speed from 220 Teraflops on 20th September to 180 Teraflops on 21st September (falling to 140 a few days later) suggests the whole of the Charity Engine participant base stopped receiving new work from Rosetta on the same day.

Hopefully it is just a temporary switch to their paid work mode and not a decision by the company to no longer support Rosetta.


Edit:
It looks like Charity Engine is still registering new users at Rosetta as of 29th September. I'll take that as a good sign that they'll switch the user base back to crunching Rosetta at some point in the future.

Everyday there are NEW users, NEW hosts but throughput doesn't rise.

Everyday there are NEW users, NEW hosts but throughput doesn't rise.

Exactly. Charity Engine is still signing up new accounts but the work level is not increasing. That means the Charity Engine network is either doing paid work or work for other BOINC projects.

When the CE network is switched back to Rosetta we should see a similar jump in project speed to what we had before. Hopefully without the massive server strain of late July.

As Charity Engine contributes 80 Teraflops I would hope that someone from the Rosetta team is liaising with them to make sure that they are happy to reconnect to Rosetta at some point in the future. That would also give advance warning of a spike in server load.