There is a website that you can go to and select your CPU type and what boinc project you run and it will give you the average run times of a work unit. Can anyone remember the name of it? I cannot think of it for the life of me

In 1979, Gordon Walker and a few colleagues at the University of British Columbia began searching for planets. He was the world’s preeminent authority in precise Doppler observations. He designed his survey on the premise that all planetary systems resemble the Solar System. The biggest signals—and, given the limitations of his equipment, the only signals he had any chance of detecting—would come from giant planets, similar to Jupiter, which takes 12 years to go around the sun. Which meant that Walker needed to commit to a very long-term project.

He also had to hope that Jupiter-like planets are common, because he was only able to monitor about 20 stars. To expand his search, he would need more support from the Telescope Time Allocation Committee, which was not forthcoming. Walker wrote later: “It is quite hard nowadays to realize the atmosphere of skepticism and indifference in the 1980s to proposed searches for [extrasolar] planets. Some people felt that such an undertaking was not even a legitimate part of astronomy.”

I see that we have reached less than 1 million results out in the field.

Meow.

Given that the lab is closed, and all the desktop computers off, it is highly unlikely that Eric has been able to run through the outstanding tasks. He may have done a few from home, but nowhere near enough to clear the pool. The most probable explanation is people actually running the tasks or aborting them, thus allowing work units for which the canonical result has been declared to clear from sight. Remember that once the canonical result has been declared our part in the science for that work unit is done, extra completed tasks for that work unit are ignored, but as far as I can see credit is awarded where applicable.

Thanks, there are at least 2 others with the same creation date

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8837426&offset=0&show_names=1&state=0&appid=

They're all Validated, but will be around until 15 May, unless https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=7989306 comes back to return or abort them.

These are all 10 week deadline tasks, that got sent to 2 unreliable hosts, so they are probably some of the longest.