I just want comment on this real quick. This is actually a horrible idea. This is a public computing grid - as a result we do not the know the quality or reliability of any of the computers which are participating. As a result there must be redundency in order to make sure that the results returned are computed correctly. If a user overclocks or has a virus on their computer, this can cause changes in the results that are computed. If we blindly accept a single result back then this bad data will be accepted as good data. This would significantly decrease the value of the data. In order to make sure that the data is good it is sent out to multiple computers and then compared and validated. This ensures that the data is high quality and can be relied upon.

For every volunteer cruncher there are going to be some problems from time to time. Robert Tusler's may have been his hardware, or Operating system, perhaps his tolerance for the early bugginess of the Boinc Client or conflicts between the other applications on his computer and Boinc. We shall probably never know for sure. However, I have been with the Boinc program from the very beginning. I never did Seti with the old dos based client, so I had no bias against using Boinc. It's just an interconnect program between a science program and the windows operating system. You can rest assured that the latest Boinc Client 5.2.13 works very well with WGC and that is reflected by more than 82 WU's which I have completed so far. Yes, ocassionally we get a bad WU but that can happen no matter what client you use. So give the Windows Boinc Client a whirl or the UD client if that appeals to you. Just know that no program or operating system is going to be perfect. You just need to go with the flow.