I’m down right envious. Most I’ve got on one of my puters is a little old 3K unit but who gets the big gator, friend wife’s puter. It isn’t fair, I here by file a formal protest of the inequity of it! I should be able to transfer her unit to one of my puters, since I snuck it on hers in the first place. As it is I’m almost certain the clock will run out on it before I can sneak it to run through.

Hi Guys
The Work Units are assigned by number, how else would they know, who they had sent them to
So I think that if you try to return a Work Unit that was not assigned to you, it will get rejected as the resulting Work Unit will not match the database info regarding its original donor
Just an observation
Regards

Glad that the steps that I outlined above work!

Hay Y'all
I think the tumbdrive is cool.
You shoud post all the info like do's and don'ts.
I have never heard anything like it.
At the laest the speed potental may be a small factor too.

I found out that only 2 core files are needed to be put into a folder on the thumb drive:

ud.exe
udtapi.dll

Do the above only IF you want to register the thumb drive as a device. This is because the rest of the files are either work unit files, or settings/ID files. Alternatively, you can install grid agent to your thumb drive directory.

Unless you want to transfer the entirety of a grid agent, its work unit, registered info, etc from one drive to another in working condition, (whether the drive be a thumb drive or in a computer), do not copy the ud_xxxxx files, where "xxxxx" is a number - that's the work unit. The *.ud files, I suspect, are information about the work unit and registration.

Once you have run the ud.exe from your thumb drive, and registered it, it will then proceed to download a work unit, and create data files on the thumb drive. Make sure you have enough space, and you don't need to bother about the files created. Then you're ready to plug the key into any computer and use its processor power for your porta-wcgagent.

This is especially useful for people who are on the go and have to use a different computer everytime they sit down to do work for most of the day.

The CPU score and RAM score will depend on the host computer you run on, and I suspect will keep changing computer to computer. Thus when you're ready to send back results, the program will run a benchmark on the computer only then. So if you want points, do try to plug it into a decent computer with internet connection when you're ready to upload results.

Please do not to use this method to get the best points everytime you send back results if you're using multiple computers; you'll mess it up somewhere on the line eventually and have to start from scratch all over again if you do it in rapid repetition. I don't think the grid agent is built to be rapidly shut down, shuttled, and run repeatedly across computers which already have their own agents. And all the trouble isn't worth it anyway - the points are almost worthless in currency, it's the results that are worth their bytage in gold. :}
(No offense to the low-result point hoarders)

Caution: If you are not using a Hi-speed USB connection (USB 2.0), this method will cause grid agent to be EXTREMELY SLOW, because of constant data transfers between the thumb drive and the computer.

Caution: Removing the thumb drive while a work unit is in progress WILL corrupt the work unit. (Always exit from the agent and wait awhile until the thumb drive indicator light stops flashing before removing. If there is no indicator led, simply wait around a minute before unplugging.)

Caution: ALWAYS use the "copy" function, when you're dealing with thumb drives. If you cut and paste, and the files get corrupted, chances are you won't have a good backup left behind.