A weekly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home
Summary The new client (v9.61) is out of testing and deployed on the main MLDS app, and Dataset 3 WUs are out! We've only released 10 WUs per graph at the moment, will up that to at least 100 going forward. Dataset 3 WUs require at least MLDS app v9.61, and all previous version of the app have been deprecated. Also, the MLDStest applications have now been marked as beta, which required users to specify the "run test applications" preferences to participate in testing. Please consider doing so, as testing on mldstest this time around uncovered many issues before wide deployment, but also understand it is unstable and you may not get credit for WUs deployed through the testing app.
Preparations for Dataset 4 (MNIST and TrojAI) are underway. Paper writing continues for a conference deadline at the end of the month.
News:
- Dataset 3 WUs released: 100 automata to model, 100+ models per graph. WUs take longer to run, with appropriate increase in credit granted! Also, memory requirements per WU have now dropped below 350MB!
Focus on the next few weeks will be monitoring Dataset 3 WUs to make sure there are no issues, and paper writing.
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 13588 Tasks in progress 22210 Users With credit 767 Registered in past 24 hours 62 Hosts With recent credit 2044 Registered in past 24 hours 15 Current GigaFLOPS 35869.59
Dataset 1 and 2 progress:
SingleDirectMachine 10002/10004 EightBitMachine 9999/10006 SingleInvertMachine 10001/10003 SimpleXORMachine 10000/10002 ParityMachine 690/10005 ParityModified 148/10005 EightBitModified 5445/10006 SimpleXORModified 10005/10005 SingleDirectModified 10004/10004 SingleInvertModified 10002/10002
Last week's TWIM Notes: Sep 14 2020
Thanks again to all our volunteers!
-- The MLC@Home Admins
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