and if we are 'still under development' in the near future, what constructive task or suggestion will you have provided, between now and then, to have shortened the time frame> No one here will mistake the difference between the hard work of program development and your chirping from the sidelines.

I wanted to ease up, but it riles me to hear people making demands and announcing their petty annoyances about how the Techs are scheduling new tasks when there is no valid reason for their criticisms, little in the way of valid suggestions on how to get things done and minimal acknowledgement of the extraordinary effort still being put forward by the Scientists, Techs, Staff and CAs.

We are the volunteers, responsible for crunching, and with an opportunity to ask questions and request help. That's the job description. Period.

I know people like to translate "I don't have any problems" as "nobody has any problems" (and vice versa), but BOINC's CUDA implementation does have problems. Keep up with the development process, and you too can know this. The BOINC developers are rewriting it all yet again (and taking a path that ignores the objections of many in the BOINC community).

So, it may work - kind of. But it's not ready. It's not reliable, and it's definitely not mature. It's not even finished.

As for the benefits of GPU computing.... cut away the hype, and what do you have? A very expensive way of computing a little faster.

I suppose I could try to compile a list of known problems, but it would take me all day.

It is ready and is as reliable as some projects here. Try a look here;

http://www.gpugrid.net/index.php

I do not find $70+/- for a card that will crunch too expensive and is equal or less in price than a good dual core of either flavor.

Your list of known problems would probably be similar to the list of problems here

If you feel that GPU processing is a waste of money, then I (with all due respect) think you've missed the point of CUDA and other technologies.

People have these video cards already. Apple laptops are now shipping with a minimum of NVIDIA 9400, and many have the 9600. These things are workhorses that are going to be put to no good use otherwise.

As far speed increase goes, you're simply mistaken in your opinion that the difference is small. Take a look at the folding@home statistics ( http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats ). The GPUs and Playstation 3s are kicking the crap out of Wintel machines, with far fewer running clients. The different is quite obvious.

GPU processing is only going to grow more in more in popularity as shiny GUIs and low-power CPUs become the norm. The industry would much rather see all of a computer's hardware be put to use than just sit twiddling their thumbs while we await new generations of Intel/AMD processors.

Please stop whinging and get on with the crunching. WCG is doing the best it can at this time. If you think that WCG is bad, maybe you should have tried Grid.org at it's worst. Maybe you did, I don't know. Either way, give WCG time to sort out the problems etc.