This Week in MLC@Home notes for Jul 25, 2020

A weekly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home.

• We've more than doubled the number of host participating in the project, up to 1100 active hosts!
  
• Relatedly, MLC@Home Is now listed on the official BOINC project page
  
• We've started processing some of the data, for Dataset 1, and hope to have some preliminary results to share later this week
  
• Datasets 1 and 2 are continue crunching away, see the live status on https://www.mlcathome.org/
  
• Dataset 3 is in internal testing, and will be even larger. Expect a more complete writeup of what these results are soon
  
• The project has secured a Raspberry Pi 4, and will be working on an ARM client. No timeline available yet.
  
• You can now follow MLC@Home on Twitter: @MLCHome2
  
• Lots of discussion on the forum related to validation errors for a small number of results (less than 1%), but are being addressed as they are uncovered, see the forum threads under "Issue Discussion"
  
• A new server is being ordered!
  

Current work status at time of posting:
Tasks ready to send: 81035
Tasks in progress: 15139

As always, you can see the current project status on the project main page at https://www.mlcathome.org/.

Thanks for contributing!
-- The MLC@Home Admins

Let me know if I should post these to the client, or just leave them as forum posts. I'm being cautious to not spam the news section on clients.

Forum posts are fine with me. But I have never had an admin ask if he was giving us too much news before.
I will have to recover from it.

I personally love the current information policy and especially the flow of positive news as well. Would really love adding more computing power if I could!

Congrats on getting the project listed onto the official Boinc project list. Surely this will give you even more of a boost! Looking forward to detailed report of the prelim results that you are mentioning.

Congrats on getting the project listed onto the official Boinc project list. Surely this will give you even more of a boost! Looking forward to detailed report of the prelim results that you are mentioning.

We were listed on the page Monday morning. At the time, if I recall, we had a little over 600 hosts. We now have over 1100. So nearly double in one week.

Let me know if I should post these to the client, or just leave them as forum posts.

My understanding is that client side notices should be reserved for important messages. While your information is interesting and welcome, and surprising, it's nothing the average user needs to know. We can always come here for a bigger picture.
I'd like the news section to be read only. There's so many cases where a simple announcement started a thread that goes on for years and where people post anything vaguely related.

Forum posts are fine with me. But I have never had an admin ask if he was giving us too much news before.
I will have to recover from it.

Ditto. More likely to get a deaf ear :-)