frans6nl

If you have each OS on a different hard drive segment i.e. Win2K on C and Win98 on D. Boot into each OS and download the agent putting the Win2K in C:/Program Files and the WCG agent for Win98 in D:/Program Files then when you boot into each OS you could download a work unit into each OS separately. Both Agents could be registered in your name and you would show up as having 2 devices even though you've only got 1 PC.

When Win2K was running it would complete the C Drive WU when Win98 was loaded you would crunch the D Drive WU.

The only thing to watch is that a WU must be returned to WCG within 3 week or it expires and the WU is allocated to another users PC. If you stayed in Win2K for 3 week then the Win98 WU would expire for example.

An unusual question. If you set your system as above I don't envisage any problems.

Happy Crunching

Dave

Hi frans6nl,
this is the exact combination (W98SE + W2k) I run for years now on PIII Coppermine 1.1 GHz. I crunch WCG on both of them with no problems encountered. All goes exactly as described by David in his reply to your post, except W98, AFAIK, has to run from C disk, while W2k can run from any disk. Beware, though, if you run DOS programs or play DOS games on W98, they use to consume all CPU time and WCG Agent, which is running with the lowest priority, gets nothing.
Happy crunching, Ivang.

It would be an interesting test. An impossible test at the moment, of course, considering there is no linux version of the grid software. Yet.

It would also be tricky (although it can be done) and quite a waste of time to do, because you would have to process the exact same WU twice in order to compare the times properly, since each WU differs in complexity.