New work coming mid year

[Rob]

Pasquale the project admin posted this a few days ago.

Now some good news: the new app is looking good, even if still not ready for deployment (maybe 3 months to go, mainly due to other issues now requiring our attention). It will take over the old app, and run on real data (real sky coverage by real NEA surveys, with new data coming in every night). WUs should run much faster on this app, and we will try to keep average crunch time on the order of hours on most computers.

[Vajras]

 

[veebee]

great news ! thanks for the heads up Rob

[Wang Solutions]

Yes, Pasquale has made his once a season forum post.  biggrin

There is a warning with it though - when the new app is ready they are going to simply delete all WUs in progress - so if you have a reissue make sure you crunch it and return it ASAP or you could find that 300+ hours of crunch time are simply wasted.

[owner]

I'll believe it when it happens.  This project has been a huge disappointment so far

[yoda]

Wait and see.  I only ran one of the original wok units.  Didn't want to run more of them because they took longer than a Climate model (HADSM3) on my quad.

If the new ones are going to take hours (like 24 or less)  I'll be in it again.

[Vajras]

i just wish that i had been given some credit for that one that got away somewhere

[Rob]

Pasquale has posted another update on the ORBIT home page http://orbit.psi.edu/?q=node/25 At the very end he says "We plan to resume active development in March 2010". There is some confusion on the forums whether he means there will be actual wu's in March or if they're just going to resume working on the App.
Given the track record for this project I'll keep my fingers crossed, but wont be holding my breath ::)

[BF]

Thanks for the heads-up Rob!

[Wang Solutions]

At this rate I think we are more likely to be hit by some celestial object before we actually see any new WUs in this project!