Orbit@Home Testing Phase Completed
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:56 pmTesting Phase Completed
Submitted by tricaric on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 23:51.
With SurveySimulator version 1.31, we believe to have reached a fairly good point in terms of stability and flexibility. Our tests so far show very high success rates on all platforms. So we're going to release production WUs soon. These WUs will require longer times to complete, in the range between several hours to a few days on the average host. The completion time estimates have also been adjusted for better accuracy, often within a factor two from the observed value.
It is now safe to consider orbit@home an advanced beta project from now on: less experienced BOINC users should be able to join and run WUs without major problems. Before promoting orbit@home to fully production, we will need to develop and release a version of the application with a graphical screensaver, but we don't plan to start to work at this before August 2008.
Submitted by tricaric on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 23:51.
With SurveySimulator version 1.31, we believe to have reached a fairly good point in terms of stability and flexibility. Our tests so far show very high success rates on all platforms. So we're going to release production WUs soon. These WUs will require longer times to complete, in the range between several hours to a few days on the average host. The completion time estimates have also been adjusted for better accuracy, often within a factor two from the observed value.
It is now safe to consider orbit@home an advanced beta project from now on: less experienced BOINC users should be able to join and run WUs without major problems. Before promoting orbit@home to fully production, we will need to develop and release a version of the application with a graphical screensaver, but we don't plan to start to work at this before August 2008.