I've been wondering, seeing that the need of the COLO's bandwidth isn't required now (nor the costs involved), if/when/or is the server kit being moved back up the hill into the lab.

Cheers.

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The real question is: Who many WU are still needed to be crunched/ reported to close and finish the Science DB? Some time ago was in the range of less than 2% (IIRC) probabily now is a lot less. And with only 10K WU in the field that could be in the range of 100 WU or less.

We are no longer distributing tasks ...

There are 2 or 3 computers in the https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/top_hosts.php that are holding on to tasks until just before deadline in order to maintain their RAC.

This has been discussed elsewhere, and has caused some controversy.

Unfortunately it appears to be within the rules, even though it gives them an unfair advantage.

It also seems to be a waste of time and electricity, because the results that they are returning have already been Validated weeks or even months ago !

since the sum of WUs with those 2 or 3 computers amounts to about 5-6000 WUs, and there are ~30,000 WUs in the field, that would mean that most outstanding WUs are with other hosts, no?

why be mad at the guy returning his 5500 WUs, but not at all the hosts with 24,000+ who probably wont return them at all?

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=3755716471 is probably the oldest WU still in the database.
It will finally time out in a few hours.
Created 23 November 2019.

And then it will be gone. The last host that has it has never returned a result and that will put the task count to 10 attempts and it will be retired.

It would interesting to see how many of those are "real" results, and not timing out or already had their canonical result declared.

Is unlikely a high performance cruncher has any WU yet to crunch.
Unless the owner force it to lately report the WU crunched.
Even my host 150K WU ultra large cache was exhausted long time ago.

01,3021, 8652081
02,1923, 4892694
03,0
04,0
05,30, 8873167
06,0
07,0
08,0
09,148, 8873154

10,0
11,15, 5944259
12,1
13,0
14,0
15,0
16,7, 8873201
17,0
18,86, 8873378
19,0
20,43, 8887061

21,2, 8835661
22,0
23,0
24,0
25,0
26,0
27,0
28,0
29,28, 2301233
30,0