The points and time are only updated when the work unit is complete. The % done is only an estimate.

Your settings will also update when the work unit completes and the agent talks to the WCG servers.

If you want to take advantage of both your cores, you need to use BOINC. UD only uses one core, and is throttled to 60% by default. You are only using 30% of your computing power.

Correct, halfcard.

The UD client throttle control program can be downloaded from http://worldcommunitygrid.org/files/WCGridMaxCPU.exe and is explained at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2683#61655

Lawrence

UD never has a delay as it has no quorum... credit upon delivery on the agent, and update of personal stats on the website every 6 hours.

For BOiNC, per knreed usually > 90% of work gets returned within 4x24 hours.... on average quorum 3 does get established under 4 days. One can monitor status here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/viewBoincResults.do. Once a workunit is validated, it flows into the next 6 hourly statistics update of the website.

The benchmark routine for UD is run every result completion and is protected. Behind the scenes there is still a quorum 3 validation. With the open source BOiNC, the benchmark value could be subject to tampering. By postponing the points award until the 3 copies are returned and comparing the claims, a server side algorithm can determine whether hi claims were 'too'. Same time it protects the too low claimers, as often they've done the work much faster than the benchmark would have let to believe.

Extensive discussions have taken place on the various (see other threads) and resulting in preliminary adjustment to be followed with a permanently revision, if deemed appropriate, to improve equality i.e. equal points for flops processed/real work effort.