Unixchick:
I have the machines with that power.
Yes me too but I consider the goal of ARP to be unachievable.

I had a post in 2021: Are we getting close to anywhere? https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=656438

I'll quote a bit from it "Bottom line from the ARP overview is "forecasting" or in people talk predict where it will rain [and when]. "Ultimately, this can lead to more accurate rainfall forecasts..."

We all know what the problem is with the weather even though there are still millions who will not admit it. There are COPs every year and what? Maybe by COP 100 they will get it.

There were floods in Kenya and in Dubai this year so I had a look at the map and they are in the desert areas of the planet.

And before anyone again says "if we don't try, we'll never know" read my football example in the same thread https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=656447

So I re-evaluated my position on this. I'll stick to health and medicine science.

As we're now a couple of weeks further down the road towards the restart, do the team have any info as to how the project will recommence? e.g., will there be a Beta test run, a slow 'ramp up' of WU's, a 'restricted flow' for a short/long period of time - or a 'just go for it' start?

Also, any 'finger in the air' dates would also be appreciated.

Hi wildhagen,

The ARP team has confirmed that they can provide the additional data we will need to resume ARP. Once the team shares this data with us, we will be able to restart the project. However, we are not aware of the exact timeline as we are waiting to receive this data from the ARP team.

Hi all,

On June 13th, 2024 we met with the ARP1 research team and we have an update regarding the data retrieval from TU Delft servers. The ARP1 team has successfully retrieved all data and uploaded to an S3 bucket as a large archive what we believe to be everything still required to generate new WUs and advance the frontier of the ARP1 simulation. We previously obtained the scripts, application code, and documentation that correspond to these data. While WCG would previously download and distribute the next generation of inputs for ARP1 workunits from TU Delft servers, we will now subsume this step and host on WCG servers all data and processes required to iteratively advance the frontier of the ARP1 simulation going forward. There will be no ongoing communication with TU Delft servers required to advance the project to completion, and completed results will be uploaded to the S3 bucket which has adequate storage for the entirety of the result set.

We believe that we will be able to quickly restart ARP1 once we have completed the download of the archive provided by the ARP1 team from the S3 bucket, but we must unpack and confirm the contents of the archive before we can confirm our expectations. Optimistically, we will have everything we need to restart the project on our servers this week and brief testing in our QA environment will confirm that we can pick up where we left off with no blocking issues. We will update volunteers when:
a) We have received the archive in full and verified the contents of the archive are sufficient to resume ARP1
b) Testing in QA has commenced, which will inform the exact restart date for ARP1 in production
c) Upon success of (a) and (b), we will post the exact restart date for ARP1 in production on WCG

I'll certainly second this motion