Dave will be referring to WCG points, not BOINC points.
Basically, WCG didn't always use the BOINC client. Originally WCG used an off-shoot of the software produced by a mob known as United Devices. They were the first lot to use distributed computing technology for bio-medical research. UD eventually became known as Grid.org and proceeded to ... do bad things to those volunteering their machines before stopping development, or at least free development, of the client software. WCG carried on using that software for a time but eventually moved to the BOINC server and client package instead. From there the old UD client was phased out but people still had the work credit that had been built up using that client and it's own scoring system. In order to not screw over it's volunteers (as Grid.org discovered that's a VERY BAD IDEA
) WCG decided to keep all the accrued credit and just multiply the normal BOINC numbers by 7 to give returns roughly equivalent to what people were getting on their machines with the old client. Hence WCG's internal stats are often different to those you see when you check the various BOINC stats lists.
Originally Posted by =[PULSAR]=
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