Great! Thanks a lot for the update and for making it understandable for us! Please try to give us some more of these updates from time to time, really interesting.

Keep in mind that it isnt a 1:1 ratio of work needed : work performed. There is a sloppiness factor involved in grid computing. Say for example, I am 97% through a work unit and my cpu fan fails. (god forbid). My cpu glows like the surface of the sun for a few moments then its gone. this work unit will time out and it will have to be performed again by somebody else.

Also, occesionally people actually trn their computers off (or so I have heard) And this could slow down the progress because of duplicated results. (two boxes working on the same WU)

Actually my estimate for the completion of Phase 1b was fairly accurate. At 88% completion of Phase 1a I estimated it would take 9,700 years of processing to complete Phase 1a. Based on FAAH scientists statements that Phase 1b would take about half as long as Phase 1a I then said that it would take about 4,850 years of processing to complete Phase 1b. In reality the FAAH scientists announced that Phase 1b had been completed at about 14,400 years of total processing (about 4,700 years of processing Phase 1b), so my estimate was fairly close (within a few days of processing time to reach 4,850 years).

In Phase 2 judging from the amount of data that is needed to be processed and from the time it took to to process Phases 1a and 1b a good ball park guess would be that Phase 2 will take between 12,000 and 13,000 years of total processing, with completion occuring in late August or September. This assumes that the present processing rate is maintained. Hotter summertime weather in the Northern Hemisphere might cause some users to reduce computer usage due to overheating. Regardless, the estimated Phase 2 completion time frame includes situations where individual work units are not completed due to user system problems and where work units are never returned for other reasons, assuming the same proportion of non-returned work units occurs in Phase 2 as did in Phases 1a and 1b.

At this moment we have processed almost 4,400 years of data in Phase 2. This means that Phase 2 is about between 34% and 37% completed.

Here's the link for anyone who would like to check out the FightAids@Home Page: http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/
This will give you our progress.

NICE WORK BY ONE AND ALL!!!!

There's also a time element. If three units haven't been returned in a week, WCG sends out a fourth. I suspect that it would keep doing that until there are three results to average.

I have seen at least three other projects out there with a quorum of 1. They send you a workunit. When it finishes, you send it in and get instant credit. There is no averaging involved. It seems to be the mathematical and numerical projects.