- For BOINC beta testing, see BOINC beta testing.
Beta Testing is available for those people who would like to assist World Community Grid in testing work for projects before they are officially launched on World Community Grid. Some projects may need debugging and you might recognize the name of the project; others will be run anonymously. In either case, you will receive credit for Beta Test work just as you would for any other project. We hope this will increase the number of users we have testing projects, which in turn will allow World Community Grid to launch projects that are stable and thoroughly tested.
How it works[]
You can opt in any of your existing BOINC profiles to receive Beta Test work by going to the Beta Testing page. When Beta Test work is available, you will receive that work before you receive work for any other project (i.e., Beta Test work will take first priority). If there is no Beta Test work currently available, you will receive work from the other projects in which you have chosen to participate.
Beta tasks typically have short deadlines, designed to get the results returned as soon as possible.
Current beta announcements[]
Comprehensive Issue List & Report Thread (Feb. 24, 2023) - - 1970/01/01 00:00
- Hi everyone, this thread aims to list all of the issues (past and present, resolved or not) that we have been made aware of and exist as the main thread to report new issues. To keep the forums organ...
What's the highest batch you have received? (MCM1) - - 1970/01/01 00:00
- I thought we should have a "What's the highest batch you have received?" thread for MCM1 also, and not only for OPN1 and OPNG. I'll begin with my highest batch as of now: [s]MCM1_0197448[/s] MCM1_01...
[:)][:)] Join "MyOnlineTeam" Today - Chapter 75[:)][:)] - - 1970/01/01 00:00
- [img]myonlineteam.org/images/headers/header01.png[/img] [b]Welcome to the World Community Grid team thread for MyOnlineTeam! We would love to have you as a member![/b] [u][b]What are we?[/b][/u] My...
What's the highest batch you have received (GPU OPNG ONLY)? - - 1970/01/01 00:00
- Hi all fellow crunchers! We need a way to track batches received for GPU work as well, so here we can report the highest batch received for GPU WUs (WUs starting with OPNG in the name). I'll start wi...
Ukraine - Украина - Україна - - 1970/01/01 00:00
- Украинцы! А также украиноговорящие жители других стран кто хочет поддержать украинскую команду! [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/125px-Flag_of_Ukraine...
History[]
Prior to the launch of the Beta Testing project, World Community Grid relied on internal testing. The scale of the internal testing wasn't sufficiently large to trigger bugs that only appear rarely, or under specific conditions. This became evident in 2006 when a bug in Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 caused a small but unacceptable percentage of work units to fail. The problem was serious enough to require suspending the project until a fix was found.
To help with debugging and tracing this elusive bug, and to prevent similar bugs from affecting other new project launches, World Community Grid created an opt-in meta-project for beta testing. This allowed more involved or technically able contributors to help World Community Grid even further, and gave World Community Grid a large and diverse set of computers for testing.
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