New malaria application

I found this message in the forum:

We are preparing the second science application to be run using malariacontrol.net. We plan to upload this application next Tuesday (Feb 13th) if our last tests come out ok.
This application was developed at the Swiss Tropical Institute and predicts the spatial distribution of malaria. We'll post a short description of the scientific objectives in this thread early next week. As with all malariacontrol.net applications, the results will be published in peer reviewed literature.

There are a few things that are worth pointing out: This application makes use of BOINC's wrapper approach for legacy applications. This has a few drawbacks: there is no checkpointing and no feedback from the application about progress. Therefore a workunit will start from the beginning if interrupted. This should not be a big problem because the workunits are relatively short (less than half an hour on most PCs).

We have several batches of workunits that we plan to send out over the next few weeks. This first stage will comprise a total of 200'000 workunits. The current simulation model will keep running and send out work in parallel.

Nick
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Nicolas Maire
Swiss Tropical Institute