There's a new number of compute hours logged per hour graph here for you to view: https://apps.foldingathome.org/credit-logUofM.MartinK wrote:...how much computational work was actually completed by how many clients (the "hours clients spent computing" divided by "wall time" mentioned by Joseph Coffland is a good start)...
When there's a new Work Server that is being on-boarded, there's a lot of stuff that needs to happen. It is a mixture of human input, waiting for various tasks to finish and then the verification before it goes into production. A blank Work Server will need to be populated with WUs so that it can then assign them to the clients. This step is rather intensive and can take a while depending on how many WUs are gong to be generated.
Moreover, F@H Team works with other teams to decide which proteins to focus on. For sake of argument, let's have a massive team of researches the bottleneck would not be F@H, instead, it would be the teams involved in X-ray crystallography. That unfortunately can't be solved by distributed computing since it requires experimentation and very specialized expensive equipment (not to mention time, money, scientists). It is great to see so many teams collaborating and working with each other to fight the common enemy!
My take is that while significant changes have happened over the last few weeks, the momentum is bound to continue for some more weeks so am looking forward to them