Orrery — the fleet that trains treadcore's bots

The line

From a guess to a commit.

A first read plays a trial against the game's defaults on 55 seeds, and drops the hopeless for the price.
Read on, then held out. More seeds until it is decided; then 400 no search has seen, the only fair read of a winner.
Families, gauntlet, tests, and onto the line; the line goes to main when it reads past it.

Auto mode promotes by itself. A person can hold any dial.

The Flow page: every stage of the line as a box with what it takes and gives, and one real trial's reads traced through — The Flow: each stage, what it takes and gives, and one trial's numbers as they moved.

The machines

Eleven lanes, ninety-eight percent busy.

Eight CPU machines play the census, three thousand jobs a day, the search's first reads and read-ons most of it.
Three GPU cards evolve crucible's islands, a population per card, a segment every twelve minutes.
The keeper hands each free lane its next job, and keeps its running jobs across its own restart.

Left of now is measured; right of now is a forecast, and says so.

The Timeline: six hours of each machine, measured, then the forecast from medians — Six hours of each machine: the search in blue and green, held-out reads in orange, the GPU rows one unbroken bar.

The round table

Who waits on whom. And who helps.

Red between two machines: work standing while another finishes. Today there is none.
Amber to the table: a run handed back to the planner, until its next pass.
Green back to the queue: the small returnable reads each machine takes when its own line waits.

The machines do not wait. The work does, and the page says where.

The Blame page: eleven machines round a table, the queue in the middle, green arrows of help, an amber hand-back, loops of GPU segments waiting their turn — The Blame page, live: no machine waits on another; r0187 is handed back to the planner.

The brain, read

What the generations found.

Terrain: every dataset's surface and its local maxima, the dials the search climbs.
Matrices and spectrum of every learned net, generation by generation.
Candidates, nets, recordings, films: every result has a page and a source.

Hover almost anything: the inspector says what it is and where it came from.

Results, Algorhythm, Terrain: a dataset's surface with its local maxima marked — Results, Algorhythm: the terrain the search climbs, and where its maxima are.

Every screen

Captured from the running fleet at 10:05 on 5 November by the console's own --frame renderer. Seven chapters, one header: Machines, Projects, Queue, Results, Watch, Fleet, Settings.

QueuedWhat runs and waits, each saying why it is there.

ValuesThe numbers that set how hard a generation is.

FleetEach machine and its job, with the buttons.

MachinesProbe, recipes, join: a fresh node from the console.

Projectstreadcore and crucible, and which machine runs which.

CandidatesTrials past both held-out reads.

MatricesA champion's layers, a cell a weight.

KeeperIs it running as it should: every check, a line each.

CommitsThe line the fleet builds, and the defaults each moved.

CommandersThe fleet as agents, with a chat.

StorageThe disks, the shares, and what lives where.

The montageThe generations as a film, and every other screen.

This morning

Read from the queue's own records at 10:00 on 5 November; the method is in The Duty Cycle.

Measure	Value	Note
CPU lanes busy	99.3%	eight machines, since the low water counts only CPU work (was 97.7% over 12 h)
GPU lanes busy, last 12 h	99.8%	three cards, crucible's islands
Jobs a day	3,955	1,519 first reads, 1,505 read-ons, 378 GPU segments, 120 held-out reads
Generations, last 7 days	27	a median 2.2 hours apart
The search's funnel, a day	1,520 → 3	652 read on, 75 held out, 3 generations
Jobs run again since the handover	0	the keeper keeps its jobs across its own restart
A transform step, end to end	2.3 min	was 7.6: the keeper asks the planner when a chain's step returns, and a pass takes 43 s, was 105

Lab reports

One report a question, IEEE in form, Markdown with the code and a page here. Every one of orrery's and treadcore's is on one page; the game's are also on treadcore.org.

5 November 2026 · the fleet

The Duty CycleNinety-eight percent busy: where the fleet's waiting goes, a round table to see it, four changes with their estimates, and a background job that asks for nothing.

4 November 2026 · the fleet

Fifty-Four Idle MinutesThe line replayed twice, three guards, and restarting Orrery without losing work: the keeper's handover, idle lanes flagged, the housekeeping in the keeper.

4 November 2026 · the montage

Seeing the Brain GrowThe film of the generations, the champion thinking, a Mind explorer to play in the page, and every screen pictured.

1 November 2026 · the line

The Whole LineEach training method, what each stage takes and gives, what stops a candidate.

30 October 2026 · the fleet

Commanding the FleetThe fleet as commanders and agents, and the console that orders them.

Collected

Every lab reportorrery's, treadcore's brain report a section a step, and every check-in, newest first.