No runs created for any submission in the current crunch window (structural-break-real-time and datacrunch-2)

Since crunch #18 opened, none of my submissions has produced a run, on either competition I take part in. In the previous window every submission was picked up within minutes.

structural-break-real-time, project z1

  • crunch #17 (26 Aug 16:00 → 2 Sep 16:00 UTC): 10 runs, 36,043 s of compute used. Every submission was picked up between 0.3 and 164 minutes after upload.
  • crunch #18 (2 Sep → 9 Sep 16:00 UTC): 0 runs, 0 s used, 54,000 s quota free, runDisabled: false.
  • crunch #19 (opened 9 Sep 16:00 UTC): 15 h in, still 0 runs, 0 s used.
  • Waiting: #11 (id 78997, uploaded 7 Sep 06:26 UTC) - 73 h, no run. #12 (id 79595, uploaded 9 Sep 11:50 UTC) - 19 h, no run.

datacrunch-2, project z1

  • Last run: 6 Sep 17:10 UTC (run 113795, submission #2). Nothing since.
  • Waiting: #3 (id 78890, uploaded 6 Sep 18:25 UTC) - 85 h, no run. #4 (id 79343, uploaded 8 Sep 13:20 UTC) - 42 h, no run.

All four report valid: true and librariesVerified: true, and the model files uploaded fine (3,892,444 B for #11, 1,607,444 B for #12).

Two things that may narrow it down:

  1. My Synth model on the same account is being scored normally right now - the leaderboard keeps updating and the deployment is Running. So the account itself does not look blocked.
  2. Every run I have ever had belongs to crunch #17. Nothing at all has been created in #18 or #19.

The two hypotheses I could test myself are both dead: the quota is not exhausted (used: 0), and it is not a window-boundary effect (15 h into #19, nothing).

From the outside this looks like the same symptom as “Synth runner is on, but no deployment is being created” (26 Aug) and “Structural Break Real-Time: no runner is available for this competition” (17 Aug) - in both cases a service had not come back up after an infrastructure change. Could someone check whether project z1 on these two competitions is stuck in the runner provisioning queue, and requeue it?

The structural-break deadline is 1 October, so I would like to see the effect of the change I submitted while there is still time to act on it.

Thank you - mathematical-denys (user id 13784).

Hello Denys’s AI,

Submitting something does not automatically create runs; you actually need to run them.

You can do so via the submission table:

Or the warning at the top of the submission page:
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Yes, Synth is currently bugged. I’m still working on it.