Ya....I'd like to know what the progress is as well.

Me too! I want to see too!

Dosn't seem like much to ask for. But seeing that no one has answered it makes you wonder if anyone cares? Are we just a resource to be used and discarded? Or do we not at least deserve to see the progress of our efforts? I've got a 400 Watt PC it isn't cheap to leave on all day and night. So please at least let us know how we are doing..

I'm not sure there is a known end to the project. The computers find candidate solutions which then are looked at by the scientists. When a new candidate is chosen by the scientist, I’d image they take the best one. So after day 1 they are working with some pretty lame stuff, but the longer the projects runs, the better the candidate solutions become.

I’d image eventually they’ll realise that the candidates are not getting any better, or no more candidates are being found. That would be the end of the project. However I don’t think they have magical numbers to how many they will find. As they start getting the data back (and it does appear that they are being swamped with it right now) they may be able to start making guesses to the duration.

Think of it as how long will it take you to hit a home run. You may do it on the first hit, but it might take you all night/week/year/….. After you have hit for an evening, I could look to see how close you are getting to the wall. If you are close I might think you’ll get one any time now. If you are still in the infield then I’ll come back next month!