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eviltoad
Senior Cruncher Australia Joined: Nov 5, 2005 Post Count: 190 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I actually found the red text very useful as a "don't read me" indicator. Whenever I saw it I just scrolled past...
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Former Member
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Thanks for the responses. Sorry for the not coming back sooner.
 Yes I ran the UD agent, not grid.com. |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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thunder, lightning, hail, rain, gloom outside....
----------------------------------------What does it all mean? United Devices was in Austin, so the weather is paying us a visit. It must be the 1 year anniversary of the demise of grid.org on April 27, 2007. We've all been doing useful science over here since or before then, so that must be a good thing.
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breathesgelatin
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Aug 5, 2006 Post Count: 117 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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United Devices was in Austin, so the weather is paying us a visit. That was crazy - a tree was blown down right behind my apartment!  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Just wanted to post something, I was also an old UD user, I started right after my grandmother died from Lung Cancer, Feb 2002. I wasted a lot of time and CPU cycles on UD, and now I read they pulled the plug. I moved back to SETI (Boinc) sometime in 2005, about the same time everyone else was leaving UD, and really didn't look back (until tonight). I don't even recall setting up an account on WCG, and I actually have some credit on WCG.
I read through some posts, and saw some familiar names, thanks for the information, and a couple smiles. Good Luck everyone. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I was wondering the same thing.
For years, I ran the UD(United Devices) agent on all my computers, in the home, at work, etc. I was rather proud of myself because I got up the ladder to being close to the 30th highest point earner(since I was crunching for UD since they started). This one seems very much like UD. Even the web site. I'm not going to do what I did before with UD unless I know I wont loose my points. I don't really care if the points don't do anything, its a 'race' for me. Its a darn shame the UD grid.org went down and they screwed everyone. They could have been nice and gave people a choice to move on to something else, and move their points. What do you think? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
NeuroPsyche, World Community Grid uses BOINC. Your BOINC points will live on even if WCG finishes.
However, World Community Grid is in a totally different position to UD. UD was underfunded, had insufficient work, and less than one staff member. World Community Grid is funded by IBM, they have a full-time staff, and work lined up for years to come. World Community Grid isn't going anywhere, except towards bigger, better and more effective computation. |
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Arturus Magi
Cruncher Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Speaking of the old grid.org 'service', does anyone know if there's any way for a former user to get at their stats? Various problems caused me to miss the last six months or so of the old grid.org's...disintigration.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello Arturus Magi,
History of the Grorg: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=12946 The statistics site disappeared with only a few days notice. Lawrence |
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