diff --git a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/benchmarks.css b/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/benchmarks.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 749fa739580a8765c45b4f17443194ed8b801cb3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/benchmarks.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-body {
-  margin: 2em;
-  text-align: center;
-}
-table {
-  margin-left: auto;
-  margin-right: auto;
-}
-a {
-  text-decoration: none;
-}
-a:hover, a:visited {
-	color: inherit;
-}
-td {
-  text-align: center;
-}
-table{
-  border-collapse: collapse;
-}
-td.first_col {
-  text-align: left;
-  padding-right: 1em;
-}
-tr.even_line td {
-  background-color: #F0F0F0;
-}
-th {
-  padding-left: 0.5em;
-  padding-right: 0.5em;
-  border-bottom: solid black 1px;
-}
-td.slim_benchmark_failed {
-  color: red;
-  font-weight: bold;
-}
-td.slim_benchmark_passed {
-  color: green;
-}
-td.slim_benchmark_running {
-  color: orange;
-  font-weight: bold;
-}
diff --git a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/benchmarks.php b/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/benchmarks.php
deleted file mode 100755
index 34ae2a7fb4ba2294f1c98766b56b0458b7606c8e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/benchmarks.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-if($_SERVER["argc"]>1)
-  $server_path=$_SERVER["argv"][1];
-else
-  $server_path=".";
-
-echo <<<END
-<html><head><title>GMSH/DG validation</title></head>
-<style>
-
-END;
-include("benchmarks.css");
-echo <<<END
-</style>
-<body>
-<h3><a href="$server_path/index.php">GMSH/DG automatic testing report</a></h3>
-<table class="slim_validation_table">
-<tr class="odd_line">
-  <th class="first_col">test name</th>
-  <th>status</th>
-  <th>last tested</th>
-  <th>last passed</th>
-  <th>first failed</th>
-  <th>time</th>
-	<th>diff</th>
-</tr>
-END;
-  function read_file($filename){
-    if(file_exists($filename)){
-      $fh=fopen($filename,'r');
-      fscanf($fh,"%s",$r);
-      fclose($fh);
-      return $r;
-    }else{
-      return "none";
-    }
-  }
-  function print_with_log($rev,$log){
-    global $server_path;
-    if(file_exists($log)){
-      echo "  <td><a href=$server_path/$log>$rev</a></td>\n";
-    }else{
-      echo "  <td>$rev</td>\n";
-    }
-  }
-  $dir=opendir("results");
-  $all_test=scandir("results");
-  natcasesort($all_test);
-  foreach ($all_test as $test) {
-    if($test!="." && $test!=".."){
-      $status=read_file("results/".$test."/status",'r');
-      $last_tested=read_file("results/".$test."/last_tested",'r');
-      $last_passed=read_file("results/".$test."/last_passed",'r');
-      $first_failed=read_file("results/".$test."/first_failed",'r');
-      $time=read_file("results/".$test."/time",'r');
-      if($i%2==0)
-        echo"<tr class=\"even_line\">\n";
-      else
-        echo"<tr class=\"odd_line\">\n";
-			if(file_exists("results/".$test."/datafile")){
-				echo "  <td class=\"first_col\"><a href=$server_path/results/$test/datafile>$test</a></td>\n";
-      }else{
-				echo "  <td class=\"first_col\">$test</td>\n";
-      }
-      echo "  <td class=\"slim_benchmark_$status\">$status</td>\n";
-      print_with_log($last_tested,"results/$test/log");
-      print_with_log($last_passed,"results/$test/log_last_passed");
-      print_with_log($first_failed,"results/$test/log_first_failed");
-      echo "<td>".$time."</td>\n";
-			echo "<td>\n";
-			if($first_failed!="none" && $last_passed!="none"){
-			echo "<a href=\"https://geuz.org/trac/gmsh/changeset?old_path=/trunk&old=$last_passed&new_path=/trunk&new=$first_failed\">$last_passed:$first_failed</a>";
-			}
-			echo "</td>\n";
-      echo "</tr>\n";
-    }
-  }
-echo <<<END
-</table>
-</body>
-</html>
-END
-?>
diff --git a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/gmsh_validation_init_script.sh b/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/gmsh_validation_init_script.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 0333fa1d5f416f101393c2d84fecfc91d20d31c9..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/gmsh_validation_init_script.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-while true; do
-  ./test_all.sh
-done
diff --git a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/run_test.sh b/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/run_test.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 43a19f0be39a0c99f1538fce1ef4467e86d0fc6d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/run_test.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# $1 command $2 name $3 rev $4 dir
-run_test() {
-  start_time=`date "+%s"`
-  ulimit -t 600
-  echo running "$2"
-  dir="$4/$2"
-  mkdir -p $dir
-  echo "$3" >"$dir/last_tested"
-  echo "running" > "$dir/status"
-  if $1  &>"$dir/log" ; then
-    echo "$3" >"$dir/last_passed"
-    rm -f $dir/first_failed
-    rm -f $dir/log_first_failed
-    cp "$dir/log" "$dir/log_last_passed"
-    echo "passed" |tee "$dir/status"
-  else 
-    if [ ! -e "$dir/first_failed" ]; then
-      echo "$3" > "$dir/first_failed"
-      cp "$dir/log" "$dir/log_first_failed"
-    fi
-    echo "failed" |tee "$dir/status"
-    let nfailed=$nfailed+1
-  fi
-  end_time=`date "+%s"`
-  echo $(($end_time-$start_time)) > "$dir/time"
-}
diff --git a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/send_mail.php b/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/send_mail.php
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index 99e5aff771cded8451c49d1acf8ca825e98f99c9..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/send_mail.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/php5
-<?php
-function concat($i,$j){
-  return "$i\n$j";
-}
-exec("/usr/bin/php5 -q benchmarks.php https://subversion.mema.ucl.ac.be/~slimdata",$result);
-$mail_content=array_reduce($result,"concat");
-$emails="richard.comblen@uclouvain.be,olivier.lietaer@uclouvain.be,sylvain.bouillon@uclouvain.be,olivier.gourgue@uclouvain.be,sebastien.blaise@uclouvain.be,benjamin.debrye@uclouvain.be,tuomas.karna@uclouvain.be,jonathanlambrechts@gmail.com";
-$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
-$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
-$headers .= 'From: slim validation manager <richard.comblen@uclouvain.be>' . "\r\n";
-mail($emails,"[slim automatic validation]",$mail_content,$headers);
-?>
diff --git a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_all.sh b/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_all.sh
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index 59450f1fbeaf935dfbbfdb33331a641ad573eea2..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_all.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-dir_list="../gmsh"
-export LC_ALL=C
-
-get_revision(){
-  rev=-1
-  for i in $dir_list; do
-    cd $i
-    svn up
-    nrev=`LC_ALL=C svn info |grep Revision|awk '{print $2}'`
-    if [ $nrev -gt $rev ]; then
-      rev=$nrev
-    fi
-    cd - >/dev/null
-  done
-}
-
-source run_test.sh
-if [ -e results/_global/last_tested ]; then
-  old_rev=`cat results/_global/last_tested`
-else
-  old_rev=-1
-fi
-get_revision
-if [ $rev -gt $old_rev ]; then
-  start_time_global=`date "+%s"`
-  nfailed=0
-  mkdir -p "results/_global"
-  echo "running" > "results/_global/status"
-  source ./test_compilation.sh $rev
-  source ./test_benchmarks.sh $rev 
-  #generate _global entry
-  if [ $nfailed -gt 0 ];then
-    run_test '[ 1 -eq 0 ]' "_global" $rev results
-#    ./send_mail.php
-  else
-#    # send an email for first succeeded test
-#    if [ -e results/_global/first_failed ];then
-#      ./send_mail.php
-#    fi
-    run_test '[ 0 -eq 0 ]' "_global" $rev results
-  fi
-  end_time_global=`date "+%s"`
-  echo $(($end_time_global-$start_time_global)) > "results/_global/time"
-  #remove old test case's directories 
-  for i in results/*; do
-    if [ -e $i/last_tested ]
-		then
-      lasttested=`cat $i/last_tested`
-    else
-      lasttested=-1
-    fi
-    if [ ! $lasttested -eq $rev ]; then
-      rm -rf $i
-    fi
-  done
-else
-  sleep 20
-fi
diff --git a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_benchmarks.sh b/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_benchmarks.sh
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index ec532fdd8a38e64d31179125c5bb463acf356d13..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_benchmarks.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# $1 svn revision id (ex 0)
-source run_test.sh
-result=true;
-CDIR=$PWD
-cd ../gmsh/Solver/TESTCASES/validation
-for i in `find  . -name '*.lua' | grep -v '.svn' | sort`; do
-  NAME=$(basename $i .lua)
-  echo $NAME
-  run_test "$CDIR/../build/default/gmsh $i -" "$NAME" "$1" "$CDIR/results" 
-done
-cd $CDIR
diff --git a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_compilation.sh b/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_compilation.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index cf1f72e49129cfc8249ef6fee1b4f74e6c333de6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Solver/TESTCASES/validation_scripts/test_compilation.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#$1 svn revision id
-source run_test.sh
-mkdir -p ../build
-CDIR=$PWD
-for i in ../build/*; do 
-  cd $i
-  NAME=`basename $i`
-  run_test "make -j3" "compilation_$NAME" "$1" $HOME/validation/results
-  cd $CDIR
-done
-