Hi, could I ask what might have caused the sudden increase in task computation time?
On my systems, it went from 480 seconds to 2475 seconds on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super, and from 88 to 290 seconds on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
I’m seeing the same sharp increase in runtime across other systems as well.

How do you manage to obtain said information?

Nope it is not getting any better, its almost a whole day now

Many people switched their GPUs from Amicable Numbers to PrimeGrid for the Tour de Primes tournament which ran the entire month of February. They are now returning to Amicable Numbers.

Good luck with that project! I am going to hang on here until the work stops, then look for something new to do. Will probably retire another cruncher or two.

Part of the explanation might be found here: https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc?orgId=1&var-project=Amicable&from=now-7d&to=now. It looks like the project was consuming about 16 TFLOPS on February 15/16. That value has trended downward and is now at ~11.5 TFLOPS.

1B is a nice stone!

Thank you yes it is.
I have now stop processing work, waiting for my 700 or so in pending to clear

Congratulations on the milestone!

Thank you much appreciated! I did it with roughly 35 tasks to spare :-) meaning I processed roughly 35 more tasks than needed

Yes, I noticed that you are likely to earn another 400,000 credits due to those tasks pending validation. So, have you moved on to another project or have you stopped crunching for now?

Moved to another project

Good luck with that project! I am going to hang on here until the work stops, then look for something new to do. Will probably retire another cruncher or two.

1B is a nice stone!

Thank you yes it is.
I have now stop processing work, waiting for my 700 or so in pending to clear

Congratulations on the milestone!

Thank you much appreciated! I did it with roughly 35 tasks to spare :-) meaning I processed roughly 35 more tasks than needed

Yes, I noticed that you are likely to earn another 400,000 credits due to those tasks pending validation. So, have you moved on to another project or have you stopped crunching for now?

1B is a nice stone!

Thank you yes it is.
I have now stop processing work, waiting for my 700 or so in pending to clear

Congratulations on the milestone!

1B is a nice stone!

Nice to hear from you Dave. Yes it looks like I will hurt my goal in 9.27 days. I need about another 60,000,000 credits (I have taken into my pending into account"

Less than 48 hours until you hit your milestone?

I'm not sure Dave. I still believe there are periods of time when we run out of work one being around 18 hours ago.
I'm more interested to know how come the server still has a 4.49 hour backlog?

Grafana gives a nice overview of the situation. There are still periods without tasks, although they are much shorter than during the challenge.
https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc?orgId=1&var-project=Amicable&from=now-7d&to=now

What do y'all think? Has the flow of tasks returned to normal?

Nice to hear from you Dave. Yes it looks like I will hurt my goal in 9.27 days. I need about another 60,000,000 credits (I have taken into my pending into account"

That's terrific! Congratulations on nearing that milestone!

Over the course of 24 hours my credit has increased by a little over 9,215,000

Completed tasks pile up when they arrive faster than the server can process them. This is what's happening now - it's 5+ hours backlog at the moment.

The WUs for part 4 should take 5-6 months to process at the current speed. So maybe you will be able to get to 1 billion :)

Top credit badge is given for 1 billion credits, so probably not... Part 4 shouldn't find any new amicable pairs, that's the whole point of it - it will double check the exhaustive searches I did before in that range.

There will be one more part for 10²¹, several months worth of tasks - it will check largest prime factors > 10¹⁴ to confirm that all amicable numbers are already found in that range.

As for 10²² - I'm not sure it's feasible. The current search took 6 years, so 10²² should take more than 60 years (the scaling is a bit worse than linear)...

What has happened to the "discovered pairs badges"? I have crunched millions and my discovered pairs badge has stopped at 100??

My question was more : since you run it standalone, how can it be that "127658160073" is the only parameter needed to feed "all the data to the task" ?

In other words : when ran via boinc as a task, the only parameters sent to boinc to run the executable are "127658160073" ?