World Community Grid

[Ototero]

Oli, what other equipment do you have besides the 3200+ ??

[Empty_5oul]

k,
im on my 3200+ usually, i don't own any others but use:
the gateway 400/500Mhz,
dads machine AMD 2000+,
brothers machien P4 1.5Ghz,
on the floor i have my old 2200+ which was before my upgrade, there isnt enough stuff for a whole PC yet though - these bits becomming the 64 skt 939 machine i want

then at dads office i ocassionally use his machine AMD somehting (about 2400+) but uses windows 2003 server - crashs a lot when running DC projects for some reason ???
also at office is P4 3.06 but i cant use that yet .

[Empty_5oul]

on the grid forum i found this so even from the member swho have done a little bit of work and now retired we still keep their points :

You can be a member of only one team at a time. You can, however, swtich teams. When you switch teams, any points you have accumulated with the prior team remain there, thus you will still appear in the team list. Any new work you complete will be credited to the new team. Points are only added to a team during the time you are a member of it.

[vaughan]

There is an article "Buddy, spare some downtime" on page 10 in the Sydney Morning Herald's ICON section Saturday 27th November supposedly originating from Reuters about WorldCommunityGrid. I tried searching both SMH and Reuters and couldn't find it so I'll post the paragraph here that I have difficulty with.

"The project is not without its risks. In particular, the voluntary undertaking could run foul of computer administrators struggling to keep a tight rein on network security policies in order to ward off viruses."

What a load of codswallop.

The author of this mischievous bunk - Eric Auchard - does not present any evidence that running WCG in a voluntary manner causes network security issues due to viruses.