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We are testing the new "monolithic fast validator", which is needed for us to accomodate much larger numbers of users

January 20, 2005

We are testing the new "monolithic fast validator", which is needed for us to accomodate much larger numbers of users. Our apologies: a bug in this caused a handful of successful and correct results to be marked as "invalid".

The BOINC developers have once again released a new version of the client (4.16) that fixes two bugs

January 20, 2005

The BOINC developers have once again released a new version of the client (4.16) that fixes two bugs. Here is what Rom said in the release notes. [pre] This release contains two fixes: - don't unsuspend tasks before restarting them - allow large command lines (backpatched from 4.5x) ----- Rom [/pre] Please upgrade to 4.16 as soon as possible.

We have cancelled the remaining "old scheduler" workunits, and started testing the new locality scheduler

January 18, 2005

We have cancelled the remaining "old scheduler" workunits, and started testing the new locality scheduler. This should send work to hosts that already have the correct data input files, greatly reducing the download demands on host computers and the Einstein@Home server.