A weekly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home
We're nearing the 2000 hosts with recent credit mark! Thanks to all who are contributing!
We are really, really excited that we're nearing the end of Datasets 1 and 2. Those pesky Parity* and EightBit* networks are starting to finish up, meaning that massive undertaking is nearing an end, and soon will be ready for release.
New this week is the launching of a MLDStest project for beta-testing new client releases and new dataset 3 WUs. Users have the option of opting out of running test units if they wish (under account preferences), but the number of WUs is expected to be very small, and it would be a big help to run them if you can, so please consider remaining as a tester.
This week we fixed most of the issues behind the scenes with Dataset 3, and have already sent out test WUs. This week we're hoping to queue the bulk for Dataset 3 WUs. Preparations for Dataset 4 (MNIST and TrojAI) are underway.
Paper writing continues for a conference deadline at the end of the month.
News:
- New "MLDStest" application added to the site.
New project preferences turned on, including the ability to limit which apps you run, and limits on CPU cores to use at once.
Client v9.60 in testing, no issues so far, will release to the regular MLDS app later this week.
Client changes for Dataset 4 underway.
A technical discussion of Dataset 3 is underway in the forums for those interested in the science behind it.
We'll do an official release of a preliminary Dataset (1+2) once we have at least 1000 examples of each machine type, and we're getting closer!
New server has not shipped from the vendor yet, but should be "any day now".
We haven't forgotten about badges! We're just focused on the paper and new WU generation at the moment. That said, if volunteers would like to offer potential designs for badges, head on over the the forums and join the discussion.
Project status snapshot:
Tasks Tasks ready to send 12847 Tasks in progress 22234 Users With credit 690 Registered in past 24 hours 25 Hosts With recent credit 1960 Registered in past 24 hours 42 Current GigaFLOPS 31675.59
Dataset 1 and 2 progress:
SingleDirectMachine 10002/10004 EightBitMachine 9994/10006 SingleInvertMachine 10001/10003 SimpleXORMachine 10000/10002 ParityMachine 602/10005 ParityModified 118/10005 EightBitModified 4554/10006 SimpleXORModified 10005/10005 SingleDirectModified 10004/10004 SingleInvertModified 10002/10002
Last week's TWIM Notes: Sep 8 2020
Thanks again to all our volunteers!
-- The MLC@Home Admins
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