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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I only just realized that the old UD agent and WCG are closely related. Way back when, I used to crunch on the UD agent but I do not recall what my member name was (if it used one). A couple of years ago I started crunching WCG under BOINC. Is it possible for me to find my old UD account and somehow merge it with my current WCG account?
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Do you mean grid.org? If so, the answer is no - WCG is not related to grid.org.
If you mean the UD agent used by WCG, then yes - your account still exists. However, if you used a different member name when starting with BOINC, there is no way to merge the two accounts. Sorry. |
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legg
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 50 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The agents are so similar that they use the same icons and registry info on this W98 machine (same machine ran the UD agent from grid.org).
UD.com and grid.org used to have their own web pages for information. As I recall the UD Cancer project was Univ of Manchester's baby. But I think your question is an interesting one; why the lack of recognition or even legacy information storage on the web? You would think it would be a normally expected price to pay for assuming/adopting the original IP. I guess any price is too much, if you can get by without paying it. RL |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I think you're confused.
The UD agent belongs to United Devices. They are the ones that killed grid.org and failed to recognise your efforts there. World Community Grid just licensed the agent. For obvious reasons, they are not going to make that mistake again! And the United Devices cancer project was run by Oxford. |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3715 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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why the lack of recognition or even legacy information storage on the web? As far as I understood, simply because UD themselves carefully swept everything within days after closing. It seems that you have missed a few chapters...  So, for some kind of recognition and legacy information you can read the following threads in WCG's forum: grid.org are pulling the plug. History of the Grorg - what happened? What is the attitude toward Grid.Org ? We are Grorg - we will be assimilated Welcome all Grid.org Refugees to WCG!! Un-official Grid.org Refugee Transition Center. I am glad I have never been there... |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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April 27, 2008 will be the one year anniversary. We had two days warning before the forum went down. Workunits stopped in midsteam. A few saved some threads. After that, nothing. No faq. No support. No games. No teams. Nothing.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
April 27, 2008 will be the one year anniversary. We had two days warning before the forum went down. Workunits stopped in midsteam. A few saved some threads. After that, nothing. No faq. No support. No games. No teams. Nothing. I was a loyal cruncher on grid.org for six years before that door got rudely slammed in all our faces. I wouldn't say they left NOTHING for us (but pretty darn close) --- on their main page when they had posted their "goodbye" message, they DID list a bunch of linkies of recommended alternative crunching sites, one being WCG. Otherwise I would have never known to come over here after that depressing/frustrating day of April 27th. So for THAT I am thankful. As for the rest of how they (mis)treated us... well, lets just say that they will deserve all the bad karma the universe choses to give them... |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I wouldn't say they left NOTHING for us (but pretty darn close) --- on their main page when they had posted their "goodbye" message Even that went away after awhile until the new site reemerged.As for the rest of how they (mis)treated us... well, lets just say that they will deserve all the bad karma the universe choses to give them... My karma ran over their dogma.  I saw the writing on the back room wall a lot earlier and came over here to start things going. My registration was July 31, 2005.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Even that went away after awhile until the new site reemerged. Yah, I assumed it did at some point. I never bothered looking back there once I made my way over here. (good riddance -- their "death" was a blessing in disguise!)My karma ran over their dogma. woof?!  hee heeI saw the writing on the back room wall a lot earlier and came over here to start things going. My registration was July 31, 2005. You are obviously waaaay smarter than me!  I barely read the forums over there (much too hostile for my liking). So I was blissfully clueless to its ultimate demise until I heard the door slam and my UD agent started whining about being unable to download any work. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Believe the formal burial was executed on the Serpentine, London Knightsbridge or somewhere there by a few former UD crunchers. As debsgr8 said, the years but the last 2 (in which air was crunched so is my strong impression) were good and surely cemented some lasting relations. But, now it's time to move on.... Maybe "the last post" should now be horned, maybe a thread in the chat room titled "I was there, but the times they are a changin'". It's with any marriage, there is that 7 year
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