Carter11 & zack55, these 'Parent' WU's are basically the 'top level' of a particular target. Each of these targets are given (if I remember correctly) a 6 hour timelimit to process them. If, after 6 hours, the estimated progress is higher than 60%, then it's allowed to continue on until the 12 hour limit - at which point, it's cut off. Any work that's left after either the 6 or 12 hour mark, is then put into a new work unit - a 'child', and the process is repeated (subsequent breakdown's of WU's, are grandchildren, great grand children etc.).

So, after all the parents have been sent out and returned, there will be a whole wave of child/grandchildren/great grandchildren WU's etc., until all the targets have been computed. So, hopefully, you'll both be able to reach the goals you're looking for - but, don't loiter. Once these WU's have been processed, then that's it...

gb009761, thank you for the explanation, that is probably the simplest and clearest one I have read that shows how the generations are created. As an emerald holder I jumped on the new work units as soon as they were announced and now have 15 calendar days to sapphire, giving me a theoretical chance to go all blue for all my projects. So I join with gb and SekeRob in saying do it now, time is running out.

It's going pretty fast. But as I understund there will be series of children send out after parents? So can anybody tell how many days we have?

It's pretty tricky to me write now. I need about 7 days of real time to get saphire. So if there is not many worunits I can increase buffer to 10 days. But must be carrefull, because after HCMD2 I want saphire on HFCC, which is going to end too (need 20 days of real time).
So, what do you advise, increase buffer or I can wait few days?

It's really fun to crunch

Zack, according to knreed on June 6, "We have distributed about 100,000 parents since the restart last week and there have been about 90,000 children that have been generated."

I am in about the same position with you on HCMD2(11 calendar days) and HFCC(12 calendar days), but it seems that there will be a goodly supply of children(hopefully).

I am running the 2530 series now.

I am going to wait and see how fast the 2530-2540 parents go, and then increase the buffer at 2541 series if needs be. I don't want to count on the supply of children, for to us they are the unknown in this equation.

Not by a long mile according the numbers I've got.

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