I am uploading two zips now. They are a bit slow at 50 kbps, but at least going.

I assume that they are being done on laptops, which is the wrong place to do them I believe.

Better a reasonable time limit of 60 days (or 30 is OK with me).

There are no Windows tasks (wah2) at the moment, and none on the horizon that anyone knows about.

Though as I posted a few days ago,

#869 Micro-batch of 15 pnw tasks went out on the 29th April.

Sometimes these micro-batches are the herald of a larger release though I have seen nothing on the moderator communications to suggest this on this occasion. Three of the fifteen have completed. The other twelve have all gone to a machine with an average turn around time of 65 days so even if it is the herald of a larger batch we may have to wait a while.

This is apparently the current work unit, and the last one I ran, but don't see a description for it.
But before taking resources off of coronavirus, I am wondering what it is?
The files include "ozone" and "solar", so it could be important in those areas.

And someone has returned a WAH2RI task" How long is it since any of them were sent out???

Looking at tasks for my longest continually running PC, finally retired last fall, the last batches issued for RI might have been Oct 2016. So 3.5 years ago.

Even my atom powered netbook would have completed those tasks in under six months!

Just done my daily check of the status page. Number of users in last 24 hours shows Linux only three behind the windows tasks despite the, "number of tasks in progress" for Windows being about seven times as many as for Linux. I am guessing it must mean a lot of those windows tasks are never going to be returned.

Sometimes but by no means always, tasks in testing herald batches on the main site.

While we wait for the researcher to get access, (or the working week), the following has shown up on an Aus news site:

Darwin River Dam at lowest level since 2006, but NT Government quiet on action

The relevant part:

Mr Durling said Power and Water was planning its future using long-term "climate change information provided by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO".

"We look at horizons including 2030, 2065 and 2090 to incorporate those planned changes," he said.

Will likely be gone fast.

They seem to have disappeared before you could speak the words.
Linux, on the other hand, is hopeless. There used to be people around here who could run them.
Gone with the Wind.

There are two new Windows batches in testing which may well lead to some main site work once they are finished.

Though I am not versed in the specific history, I feel like this project's deadlines were likely founded back when numbered Pentium processors (pentium 3, pentium 4) were in use and the amount of time to complete a single workunit took months for a single machine to complete, even when on 24/7.
It's really quite amazing where we've come since then.

That has been tried several times, but it doesn't provide viable science.

If you have 32 processor cores, then run 32 different models.
Just have LOTS of memory.