SERIOUS Einstein@home bug

Anonymous
Topic 13528

Dear Matt,

This definitely got me to laugh out loud. Seriously though, the project has had problems in the past several weeks that should not have happened. Thankfully we are not an air traffic control center or a hostpital, so no one dies when we screw up. But it's not a good thing. So I am not surprised about how many people have complained. In fact it's an indication that people care about our project and want it to work correctly.

In general, I've found Einstein@Home users to be remarkably helpful and smart. Many of our technical problems get sorted out very fast because our users can identify the specific problem. (This happened over the weekend: our new scheduler was not compatible with 4.19 BOINC clients, and a user explained exactly how to fix it.)

Cheers,
Bruce