BOINC project SourceFinder: next week production work?
The SourceFinder admin tells:
- "... if this week's work goes smoothly, I'll see about moving on to production work next week." (read more here)
Why is this important for Gridcoin?
- once there are steady WUs available, SourceFinder could return into the Gridcoin whitelist (which consists currently of 25 BOINC projects), see:
- adding Sourcefinder (with no WUs) to the Gridcoin whitelist and its negative effects ? (August 4)
About SourceFinder:
- "Sourcefinder is a BOINC based distributed computing project that aims to provide a means to test the effectiveness of various astronomical sourcefinding applications.
- Sourcefinding applications are designed to process ‘cubes’ of data that contain radio sources and identify the location of the sources within the cube."