Greetings,

We are about to start a good sized beta test for Say No to Schistosoma (SN2S). This test will be for 2 reasons.

1. To decrease the errors on Windows due to a shutdown bug.
2. Change the project to remove redundancy.

These two changes will make the project have a faster throughput on the grid. These changes if they go well for SN2S will also be tested for the other two VINA applications (DSFL and GFAM).

There are going to be two groups of work units, first group will have redundancy to make sure that our validators/assimilators work properly with the old code. The second group will be run without redundancy but members may see some released with redundancy due to reliability rating with the new science application.

The first group has about 4200 work units which will be 8400 results sent out.

The second group has 7100 work units, which will produce between 7100 and 14200 results.

If you are on a Windows machine running a beta work unit, please shut down your computer while running one and make sure it continues to run properly.

Thanks,
-Uplinger