Your doubts are perfectly reasonable, logicals, even I had them 
when I firs saw FightAIDS@Home website, but, those doubts have no bases 
when you refer to the WCG: you project gets evaluated before adding it 
to the grid and I'm sure The WCG has some requirements for a project to 
be valid.

      Besides you can check this yourself, the very first link I posted 
in this thread leads you to the active projects with brief explanation, 
with another click to the detailed explanation and with another one to 
the website of the project, all project have their own website AFAIK. 
There you can see that serious and with a career of trajectory the 
professionals that form a project, sometimes large organizations like 
the Scribbs Institute for FightAIDS@Home project, that excels in 
biomolecular 3D modeling (and other genetic studies, they even have a 
periodic newsletter for free that even I can understand (yeah, I'm 
subscribed)) with patented software DONATED to The Grid to work on the 
WCG client. You don't put 248.879 TeraFLOPS on a dumbass or mediocre 
project, I imagine many complain with WCG that reject their projects.

      That is why I was angry before, because if people would visit the 
links I provided, with a few clicks and 20 mins. tops you could 
self-answer any and all question you can have about WCG projects and 
grid computing.

      Plus, the WCG has DETAILED stats by any criterion (by devices (WCG 
clients), by project, by team, by perior of time, etc.) individual and 
global; profile, device and team managers (configurators). Also 
concluded projects and future additions, each with detailed info about 
the projects.

      At this point you realize that The WCG it's a beautiful place to 
be if you always wanted to be participate in a serious and Humanitarian 
disease-solving projects. I only have 1 PC (P4 HT 3.0 Ghz) but I wish I 
could have another 5 more all doing nothing but running WCG Clients each 
with 4 cores on the CPU at a gozillion Ghz. :-)

      You are right, most people would say no, I tried to get my 
University to participate on it, but they cared little or nothing, no 
WCG was ever installed. At my work some ran it for a few days, but it 
was "too heavy" for P4s, I get to ran it on the File/App Server for 
several months, I haven't received any work unit from it since last 
month, even the server wasn't lagging at all (I installed FreeRAM XP 
Pro, 512 MB DDR2-667), even everyone (11 people) accessed it (DELL 
Server, PC style, no RAID) all day, everyday. Well, at least it was a 
fast Server with Dual Core I got a nice number of results (2-4 per day). 
I ran it also at my work PC and at my home too.

Cheers.

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