I don't know offhand, there is something about it in a post from I think another mod there but it was some time ago i saw it. They would when only crunching CPDN work turn off internet access to stop uploads going beyond the maximum number of attempts. As there isn't any work at present I can't search xml files to see if it is listed there. I will see if I can find the relevant post and if i do get back to you.

With such little bandwidth available, computers running scripts such as that make the Krembil servers see a DDOS attack. :-D

That's funny. Our hosting provider did contact us about some suspected DDOS attacks. Can't say it was you guys for sure, though.

The GPUGrid project is famous for stopping access to both the website and work servers after a certain number of connections for a timeout period. We crunchers have long suspected that it is a DDOS protection measure implemented by their ISP (or the university itself), but the project has not admitted to knowing the cause.

Sunday Report .

22,741 units validated in 7 days, so average of 3,248.7 per day. This is more than double last week.

Assuming that a full generation 182 will be the last, there are 1,850,720 units still outstanding, so my forecast end date would now be 16 April 2024, however, we are still in testing so we should finish well before then.

Only 1 of the 3 ultra extremes has moved in the last week.

The definitions of Extreme or Accelerated units are increased by 1 generation.
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There are now 111 Extremes and 204 Accelerated units, although the numbers in their generations are 118 & 2,381 due to lack of movement.

The situation with downloading units is still dire..

All classes of units are taking more than 13 days to validate on average, despite the relative deadlines. I presume this is because of the length of time that they take to download and possibly because the extremes are not necessarily going to the fastest machines as used to be the case with IBM.

Mike