I don't understand what you mean.
Simulation lets you study the interactions of
long/short jobs, multithread jobs, GPU jobs, multiple projects, etc.,
quickly and with quantitative and reproducible results.
Anything involving the real BOINC client doesn't have these properties.

[email protected] wrote:
> It would be good if we had a suite of tests to run CPU schedulers through
> and a proposed CPU scheduler change could be tested quickly.  I proposed
> setting this up as the "BOINC" project tasks.  The memorex in this case
> could get us answers about the effectiveness much faster than live does.
> The problem is that the edge conditions do not happen frequently.  Most of
> the time on most machines any CPU scheduler will work.  It is only
> sometimes that there is a major problem where some task will be reported
> weeks late, or a resource is ignored for a day or two...
> 
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