S5R6

Hi!

As you may have noticed, S5R5 is ending this week. We don't have a reasonable amount of S6 data worth analyzing yet, so we decided to look into higher frequencies of the most sensitive S5 data that we have already used for S5R5. S5R6 will start at 1000Hz, where S5R5 ends.

The search program used for S5R6 is the very same that's used for S5R5; we set this up as a new application in terms of BOINC just because of a different workunit generator and validator. If you are using a Beta Test ABP1 application package, you could and should copy a new application section "einstein_S5R6" from the "einstein_S5R5" section in the app_info.xml file to get S5R6 work when it becomes available.

In the next few days we'll tell the S5R5 workunit generator to write all S5R5 workunits that haven't been generated yet into the database. If all goes well, the database should handle that additional size pretty easily, but you never know. Then we'll start generating the first few S5R6 workunits and see how they are processed. If all goes well, we'll then let the S5R6 workunit generator run continuously, feeding new S5R6 workunits into the database as needed.

Hopefully the transition will be smoothly and go unnoticed for most participants.

BM