Hi, I was just wondering as milkyway@home runs through BOINC will my WCG account get any credits for running it? (just with the xtreme supercomputer week) ty
[XC] mysticmerlin
05-03-2010, 06:13 AM
You only get credit for WCG if you run WCG. Boinc is just a front end for many different projects but all give credit for there own not each others.
Bobsama
05-03-2010, 10:45 AM
WCG is a bit of an oddity among the BOINC-supporting projects. They started out counting your work with WCG points and then counted, double-duty, those (new) WCG points as BOINC points at a 7:1 ratio respectively. They swapped clients a few years ago when they started to support the BOINC client, dropping their proprietary WCG client. If you do choose to run MW@H, you'll want to run it GPU-only [and preferably on an ATI GPU; HD38x0, 4(6/7/8)x0, 5(5/6/7/8/9)x0].