The official estimate is 24 days remaining for HPF2!

See thread

I'll have to consider very carefully whether to for Emerald on both GFAM and HPF2 or just to play safe with GFAM.

@ Thargor

This thread Running CEP2 in a virtual machine. might be of interest to you if you haven't already seen it.

My five VMs never get powered off, anyway, so snapshots would be overkill for them. However, they're also all built with only 768MB of RAM, so don't have enough resources to properly run CEP2.

I've got CEP2 set to 8-concurrent on the 8-core VM on a friend's test-platform, and it's set to 8-concurrent on my gaming PC (when it works properly - should be picking up a new GTX-670 in the morning to replace the poorly GTX-460), so hopefully there's enough work remaining to get to the Sapphire badge (am currently on 1y 201d).

At some point in the near-ish future (when my inheritance comes through), I'll be doing the planned upgrade - hopefully prices will come down a bit more when the Haswell (sp?) chip gets released by Intel, apparently happening at some point in June. When that happens, my gaming PC (air-cooled quad-core i7-920 overclocked to 3.36GHz, 12GB of DDR3-1333) will become a little more powerful (water-cooled hex-core i7-3930K overclocked to 4.5GHz, 16GB of DDR3-2133).

I've already got my 5 years for GFAM, so I've disabled it across all profiles, to give other people a chance to get their desired milestones before the project ends!

Maybe he was having an extended nap orpossibly the solar flares caused an internet connection problem.