Any special instructions for transition to S5?

There is one thing you might have to think about if you have been running the Akos app and using an optimised or calibrating client to correct your credit claims. This is nothing to do with future credit as that will be determined server side. It is to do with the potential size of your cache of work. Things will be different depending on exactly which client you have been using. Take the Trux one for example. I haven't used it but I believe it changes both time and benchmark value in order to "calibrate" your claim. Those using it probably have a pretty low DCF or artificially high benchmarks or perhaps a combination of both.

As you exhaust the remaining S4 work, you will be getting the new S5 data with time estimates based on your DCF and benchmark values which will be wrong for the new work. The danger is that if you had, for example, a 4 day cache, you may fill up with S5 work which will ultimately prove to have been estimated way too low. When the first S5 result to complete "fixes" this by upping the estimates significantly, you may suddenly find yourself with a lot more work than anticipated. The fix, if you think you might be susceptible to this problem, is simply to reduce your connect to network setting to say 0.5 days or less right now, particularly if you seem to be accumulating a lot of S5 results with surprisingly low estimated times. The times are going to be way longer than what you have been used to with the Akos app.

Cheers,

A person could "max" their cache at 10 days which would give plenty of S4 work and also plenty of warning when S4 WUs are no longer available as you will see it taper-off and the number of cached WUs will decrease.

At the point that S4 work is completed, send completed WUs, delete app_info.xml, d/l new worker application from server, edit the truxoft_prefs.xml and remove Einstein from calibration or off if it is the only project.

If I'm not mistaken, this would allow a transition that would keep max credit on S4, while migrating to S5 using trux Boinc 5.3.12tx36 w/o the issues below.

Any problems w/ this I'm overlooking?

Under the Tasks tab in BOINC Mgr, you can suspend the S5 WUs until your S4s are complete (just be careful to look at your S5 WU deadline and make sure you complete them beforehand).

Unless you want to do ONLY S5 work now, you don't need to delete the S4 ap since you are likely still to receive some remaining S4 work.

At the point you have completed and reported your final S4 WU, Close BOINC & open truxoft_prefs.xml with notepad, edit the line as shown in my post below, restart BOINC and check the Message Tab. Look for: calibrate_client = off
Should do the trick. You can verify in the Message tab since you shouldn't see any reference to calibration of time or gflops etc.

Hope this helps.