It's been quite awhile since I have done any sort of serious grid computing using BOINC. I haven't had the best computers for doing it throughout my life and I did do a little bit in the past on a weaker laptop (but I suppose even doing one work unit at a time is still helping more than zero).
Now that I have a much more powerful laptop I've found myself getting back into the thick of things. I used to do World Community Grid back a few years ago and I guess since then IBM let it go and some other organizaiton took it over and even more recently they had to do a full transition over to new software which ended up not going so good and their estimated transfer over was supposed to be short, but it seems like its been over 2 months and still facing issues.
I ended up signing up for both Einstein@Home and World Community Grid a few days ago and I was mostly getting Einstein@Home work units until yesterday when I started getting work units for WCG.
I don't have it going full blast since I have other things to do on my laptop, but I have BOINC set to run at 25% CPU for 100% CPU time on a 8 core/16 thread Ryzen CPU (so it will run 4 concurrent work units at time split between the two projects).
It's not much compared to some others that run literal dedicated servers that can push out like 100 work units at the same time, but I am doing what I can to contribute to science and the cause.
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