It can well be what Didactylos said, but your guess may be true too. We know that there are still a few very old computers on WCG, and for these slowest machines NRW is the best project to choose to avoid everlasting jobs. And it will be even more when the 6-hour WUs begin to flow (I am still waiting for the first one to show).

For info, I think that 6.4 credits means about 8 or 9 computed seeds. Better than nothing, although probably not very efficient regarding electricity costs.

Cheers. Jean.

Considering the spill of 0.8 hours to complete the last seed underway at 10:00 hours exactly, concur this machine did about 9 seeds. Me quad does about 235 seeds in that time frame by comparison, times 4 cores.

The design is with the new 6 hour duration to allow even older computers that are on just for few hours a week to contribute and finish a task in 12 days, not to let them on 24/7. This is why WCG offers a power saving pre-set profile too, so BOINC allows devices to go to sleep if the hardware has features to go to sleep when not in use. That "go to sleep" time is configurable.

And for RICE, very little memory or disk-space is needed.

I agree. Can't be a 386.

Cheers

Maybe just non-boinc distributed computing projects (OGR, muon etc) in background ?