Thanks!

Re using the Beta Testing format...

It's not the MCM1 application that's being tested, it's the work-generation, work issuing and work return mechanisms that are being tested, and I'm not sure that trying to apply their new fan-out based technique to the Beta Test environment would work very well (if at all!), especially if it hasn't been implemented for MAM1 Beta! :-)

A couple of key quotes from recent Operational Status updates:

From October 18, 2025

• We are sending small batches of workunits out starting tonight with batch IDs in the range 9999900+ for MCM1 to test the new distributed partition-aware batch upserting app-specific create_work daemons. The few volunteers who get these workunits before we start releasing larger batches as we gain confidence that the new system is working as expected may notice these workunits have a much smaller number of signatures and run much faster than normal. These are still meaningful workunits, but key parameters such as number of signatures to test per workunit were reduced so we could get feedback quckly.

From October 21, 2025

• Finally stress testing rather than correctness testing.
  
• Sent a batch of 100,000 workunits (fast running, not full size in case something crashed.
  

Cheers - Al.

My apologies, I'm not too familiar with the WCG community. It seems to operate quite a bit different from other BOINC projects I have been running for a while (ie no server status page that I can find). But anyway my question is this: where do you get these Operational Status updates? I can't find anything on the forums like those updates you listed myself. And the web pages that should seem to be latest updates and news are all woefully out of date...

It seems that they are still working on getting systems up and running, and I'd like to get those status updates as they come. My team and user name haven't synced up to my BOINC client yet. I might attribute those issues to BAM though, it seems to be more trouble than it's worth for me on my single computer. But at least I got some of those small MCM stress testing WUs.

edit: ah of course, I found the operational status page with recent updates, after I post about not finding it. Mybad. Of course it would make sense if these updates are at least linked from these project pages. Oh well, I'm sure they are busy with all the testing.