now have over 1 million tasks now ready to send

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OUT OF WORK again, no new tasks

Why does this upset people? We're keeping up with the workload, this is good. Join a backup project.

Who is upset? No one looks upset ;)

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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every time there's no work left, people come in here and complain, and sometimes in capitals! If there was a fault to report perhaps, but we should all know by now the work is not enough for us to run every day.

Or is it? I notice the last addition to the work to send was much larger.

Well, I still believe using capital letters is just a way to say that out loud and nothing more.
And they are always been heard. As we are always aware of the fact that there is a gap again.

When you do science you have to be patient and you can always expect unexpected. ;)

Cheers!
Georgi

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Yes I am patient, but it appears the others are not.

So did you get another data source? This graph (top left) shows you input a lot more data this time:

https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc?orgId=1&var-project=Asteroids@Home&from=now-30d&to=now

At upper right corner you can set time.

Yes, I changed it to one month, this shows in the top left graph the last addition to work was much larger. I was wondering if he had another data source, so in future the work will not run out.

Yes, I changed it to one month, this shows in the top left graph the last addition to work was much larger. I was wondering if he had another data source, so in future the work will not run out.

I'm not aware of new observatory been joined to the data gathering process. It's more likely one of them just have sent bigger patch of data, but can't say for sure.

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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

I see from zooming out to a year, it has happened before. I can't understand why there was a gap after it instead of before though. A delay in data could result in double the batch size. But a delay after it?!

This is to explain how(often)/when the new WUs are added. The units are created and added "manually" when I see that the number of tasks ready to send is small. The number of new units is not strictly defined; it varies from a couple of hundreds of thousands to millions. I know that it's not very smart to do it this way, but the advantage is that we have full control over what and when is added, and we are flexible in prioritizing some data sets if needed. The disadvantage is that there is sometimes a gap in the flow of tasks that some of you complain about and that gave name to this thread. I will try to minimize the time when the queue is empty, but the "out of work" situation will inevitably happen from to time, sorry. In such a situation, I kindly ask for your patience.

out of work.......

Getting tasks. Whee!

Out of work again I see. Hope that can be remedied before the start of the work week.

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According to past data task supply has been stable for the past year.

https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc?orgId=1&var-project=Asteroids@Home&from=now-1y&to=now

But they seem to have a repeating cycle of just letting the RTS buffer go to zero repeatedly until somebody prods them into creating more tasks.
https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc?orgId=1&var-project=Asteroids@Home&from=now-24h&to=now

There doesn't seem to be any automatic mechanism to query the state of the tasks to send buffer and initiate a new data generation mechanism when the buffer is about to empty out.

I had to DM the admin on their Discord channel to get Georgi to notify Radim or Dr. Durech to create more work yesterday.

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Please read the following post https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=911&postid=7503#7503 to see why work generation isn't automated

OK, so we know the work generation is out of the hands of the admin.
My point is still, why isn't work generation automated in the hands of the scientists who ARE responsible for work generation.

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OK, so we know the work generation is out of the hands of the admin.
My point is still, why isn't work generation automated in the hands of the scientists who ARE responsible for work generation.

it IS in the hands of the Project Scientist. they made the deliberate decision to not automate it to have more control over the process and which data gets priority in generation.

a few posts up: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=911&postid=8078

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I never saw that post until you pointed it out. Explains why no tasks now is the norm.

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