If I'm understanding posts from Bruce correctly, we'll seemlessly transition into S5 work units (possibly with new official science apps??).
Correct. We'll also have new science apps.
I'm not sure if 18 days is an eta for issuing the last S4 workunit, or for when they're expecting to get the majority of the S4 units crunched and returned.
The time shown on the server status page (18 days) indicates when we will make the LAST workunit of the S4 data analysis run. At that time, we'll begin distributing S5 data and some new applications. The S4 workunits in progress will continue to crunch for a few weeks after we finish making them.
Cheers,
Bruce
