They are both sub's of Systemax. The latest headlines here I don't see anything on the horizon. The stock has been flat and the tech sector has not exactly been "on fire" lately. Rebranding is very expensive. Their current theme seems to be "sister stores". Long term ... CompUSA was a major brand and I would see them going in that direction. CompUSA was a "brick and mortor' name while TigerDirect has has more of an online name ... they could go the other way. "The all new CompUSA" seems to have been coined after they were sold and most of the stores were closed.

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Good morning MOT! 47.5 here this morning ... I think Fall has fell. I will be away Friday through early next week.

EDIT: Lots of Windows updates this morning and, of course, the mandatory reboot.

All the WU's on the new machine will almost invariably go sit in the PV jail for some amount of time. The amount depends on if you keep a "queue" and how big. When you first start up BOINC on a new machine, it will pull enough WUs to "fill up your queue". Since those are all being sent at pretty much the same time, they are WU's just being sent out to users at that time. Unless they are single quorum WUs or the other cruncher(s) who get the same WU start crunching it when you do, it'll end up in the PV jail. As the machine works it's way down thru that initial "load" and gets into dealing with the normal in and out of the pipeline, you'll have higher that normal numbers in the PV jail. I've pondered it a bit and think you're best off loading up your queue in the beginning as opposed to slowly ramping it up on the new machine as the latter would appear to just delay it getting into normal mode. Every single WU on my new quad is going straight to the PV jail so far.

Mike, these days, the best way to upgrade a machine is usually to replace it with the current technology. The hardware geeks out there can get into building their own machines and deal with things like swapping out motherboards and such but us ordinary folks do better to take the "package deals". I prefer getting machines that I think are going to be the most reliable. Truth is, I hate dealing with stuff that breaks too soon or too often. I've found that Consumer Reports typically rates Apples and Lenovos best on reliability. They're not always what they choose as their "Best Buys" but I find that paying a little extra for quality costs less in the long run. I'd probably do okay with an Apple but I just haven't been able to make the "psychic" leap to the different architecture even though you should be able to run Windows stuff there just fine now (yea, I'm old and set in my ways and I admit it). The fact that I can get Lenovos at a discount is icing on the cake. With a couple of pieces of info and the right URL, you can get the same discount too (all legit too). Figure on around $1400-1500 for a nice desktop (with monitor) or laptop. That's not their low end machines but it's not the high end either. I find that gets me machines I can count on to be pretty trouble free for 3-4 years at least for a laptop and probably even longer for a desktop. It's nice if you can use them for other uses too (like in a LAN in your office if you end up with your own practice) but eventually, you run out of excuses like that and you just have to buy a cruncher. Over time, you can pick up more knowledge from folks here and others you know but your time is highly occupied with other things for now.

Or you could buy a new quad from IBUYPOWER. Oh wait, no, don't do that.

Unfortunately, a project's science apps have to support this. I believe you've found the two projects that do. The fact that PS3Grid requires you run a 6.3 level of BOINC also indicates that BOINC itself needed changes for this as well. The topic has come up regularly in the forums here. Maybe next year?