FAH needs you! No, really, Fah needs beta testers and you could be one. I think most here understand the concept of what beta and beta testing is so I will not go into much explanation about that.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the flow of work units from Pande Group:
1. Internal Testing - Alpha stage (Pande Group only)
2. Beta Testing - Released to Beta Testers
3. -Advmethods - Wider Beta Testing, Stage 2 Beta I suppose
4. General Release - General community recieves these units
If you become a beta tester you may have crashes, lost production and there is no guarantee what you will fold as it could be a Gromac, tinker or even a Gnome unit, whatever the needs of the Pande Group are at the time. It will require time and attention to your rigs and you will need to provide feedback and possible workarounds for what you encounter. From time to time you will need to provide your logs and other information.
If you are interested in becoming a FAH Beta Tester than read this post at the
folding community forum.
Also here is an excerpt from a post by
pythagoras, one of the site admins at folding community forums and the one I contacted to join the group:
Quote:
There is a a way to read the beta testers forum
Become a member of the beta testers group. Test out new cores and WU's report findings in the forum and more importantly be prepared to lose points and have problems on a more regular basis than using the -advmethods flag.
-advmethods is away to test on a wider basis than the beta team can when we have pretested as much as possible and have ironed out a lot of the problems it goes to -advmethods.
If you wish to take part please send me a PM with system specs you would be prepared to beta test with.
And this is to anyone else up for the job
Regards
John. |
Once admitted you will be able to read and post in the "Beta Testers Forum" of the folding community forums.
Good luck to all and thanks for reading.
On a side note, since the Gromacs have never made it beyond -advmethods and did not crash our machines, I wonder if they were not producing valid data for Pande Group? Good points but not if they don't return valid data.