according to project statistics it is running at around 6000 results/day. I have been getting slightly less than 1 per day

what are extremes and ultras?

Accelerated are generations 126 - 130
Extremes are earlier generations.
Ultras are the 3 units in generations 14, 16 & 17.

Normals are first issued with a time allowance of 6 days to 2 machines.
Accelerated are first issued with a time allowance of 3 days to 2 machines.
Extremes are first issued with a time allowance of 3 days to 3 machines.
Ultras are extremes for this purpose.

Any re-sends after half way through the initial period are issued with a time allowance of half the original time so 3 or 1.5 days.

Mike

Al, I think you've been questioning about inital deadlines before the transition (by the end of February 2022).

Looking at October 2021, I see normal deadlines of 8 days and shortened deadlines of 4.5 days. Somewhere in February 2022 this changed to 6 days, shortened deadlines of 3 days and some extremes with a deadline of 1.5 days.

Examples:
(columns: Name, ReportDeadline, SentTime)

ARP1_0019757_128_0      2022-02-19T02:58:31     2022-02-11T02:58:31 (8 days)
ARP1_0001892_126_2      2022-02-15T23:45:10     2022-02-11T11:45:10 (4.5 days)
ARP1_0020372_128_1      2022-02-17T17:04:13     2022-02-11T17:04:13 (6 days)
ARP1_0034635_130_2      2022-02-15T16:44:51     2022-02-12T04:44:51 (3.5 days)
ARP1_0010893_125_0      2022-02-15T05:04:14     2022-02-12T05:04:14 (3 days)
ARP1_0031033_102_2      2022-02-13T14:05:20     2022-02-12T02:05:20 (1.5 days)

(Note: There is one odd entry with a deadline of 3.5 days.)

Is this what you were looking for, Al?

Al/Adri

The original deadlines were 7 days halved to 3.5 days on re-send over half way through the initial period.

Then 1 day was added to each to get the replies back so 8 or 4.5 days.

Then IBM tried to get the stuck units and especially those stuck for a long time to get going again prior to Krembil taking over. They introduced the 'extreme' category. I introduced the term 'ultra' which originally referred to 6 units but now only 3 remain (in generations 14, 16 & 17).

With IBM all the projects had different deadlines as high as 14 days, but Krembil have simplified this so all are based on 6 days, halving to 3 days.

ARP is the only one to have this extreme category due to the wide spread of generations involved.

It is strange that Krembil have not been issuing many extremes, but maybe they are stuck and Krembil have not had the time/resource to unstick them. IBM managed to unstick them by shortening the timestep from 36 to 24, reverting back after a few generations.

I suspect that those units might have related to mountainous areas where the weather changed more frequently.

Mike