A weekly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home
Summary Wow, what a week. It's been 7 days since we released Dataset 3 WUs, and YOU, our volunteers have already crunched 48 of the workunits towards our first milestone (100 networks for each of the 100 automata). Client v9.61 appears to be working well, Dataset 1+2 WUs continue working in the background. Dataset 3 WUs were coming in so fast, we had optimize the validation process because server was getting overwhelmed!
At this rate, we're going to be ready for the first release of Dataset 3 (milestone 1) before Daatset 1+2 complete. That's a good result. We'll also release more Dataset 3 WUs soon, This also bodes well for Dataset 4.
Preparations for Dataset 4 (MNIST and TrojAI) are underway. Paper writing still underway, it is unlikely we'll make the deadline we were targeting for the end of this month, because we feel including Dataset 3 would be an even more compelling result.
In other good news, the new server has shipped from the vendor, and should be arriving at the university tomorrow! Meaning sometime in the next few weeks there will be some downtime while we transition to a new server with twice the ram, twice the speed, 3 times the number of cores, and 8 times the storage.
News:
- Dataset 3 WUs processing going fantastically, uch faster than anticipated.
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! Those WUs continue working in parallel with Dataset 3.
New server should arrive this week.
Badges should be rolling out this week too.
Training/eval data for Dataset 4 has been created, and work continues on updating the client and validation process to handle the image-based dataset
Project status snapshot:
Tasks Tasks ready to send 2851 Tasks in progress 35721 Users With credit 807 Registered in past 24 hours 30 Hosts With recent credit 1994 Registered in past 24 hours 20 Current GigaFLOPS 30112.54
Dataset 1 and 2 progress:
SingleDirectMachine 10002/10004 EightBitMachine 10001/10006 SingleInvertMachine 10001/10003 SimpleXORMachine 10000/10002 ParityMachine 723/10005 ParityModified 170/10005 EightBitModified 5747/10006 SimpleXORModified 10005/10005 SingleDirectModified 10004/10004 SingleInvertModified 10002/10002
Dataset 3 progress:
Milestone 1, 100x100: 4854/10112
Last week's TWIM Notes: Sep 21 2020
Thanks again to all our volunteers!
-- The MLC@Home Admins
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