They are not at all the same. Both agents are supplied by United Devices (UD) - the people behind grid.org. But WCG also support the BOINC agent, and have different projects running on the grid.

If you ask people who migrated from grid.org to here, they will tell you horror stories about grid.org wasting valuable processing time recrunching old work, merely because they didn't have anything new to do. That isn't an issue here - work is never wasted, and World Community Grid are always looking for new projects and have work queued up that will keep us busy for years.

And they are still doing it! They recycled old Human Proteome Folding work units for two months after WCG sent out the last one and archived the project.

They seemed to think they were doing everyone a favour instead of merely wasting loads of energy and time.

Points are a way of keeping score. They are not an end in themselves.

DavidHobbs...why back to WCG......could u find BOINC on the dark side :<).

Kind of wondering about the work here and the potential of it running low....FAAH, cant suss it out with the contradictory info of Larry Fine (mid August he wrote there was a few more weeks left) and the HDC being finite (and of ltd supply).....HPF2 no squeak...thus been preparing for some alternate options......WCG is prime, but the weight switch can be flicked in seconds on BOINC......anyway, whatever progress PC's and computing power, still flustered about the ease with which low end member machines were discarded **, particular for those just on UD agent, who had little alternative but to go the steep BOINC learning curve, or do what u done just now. WCG is not giving away anything much.....on low end upcoming project, the last promises flying very hard in the face!

** Upping from 1 to 1.5gb ram bought for myself to work and not for BOINC crunch, was substantially quickly taken over by, guess what?.......talking about providing spare cycles then translating into sheer science ram greed.

PS, the electricity cost of running 18 machines in Italy would fund a new machine, that has the power of 10 each......if they are real workplace stations, then hey, u made the right decision (personal opinion, not community adviSe (is that with S or C ;>)

ciao

Have a look for the little trottle tool (it's mentioned in the Graphics screen of the UD Agent). The little slider allows to bring it all the way up to 100% again. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2683