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Old Jul 16, 2009, 10:08 PM   #2580
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World Community Grid (WCG) which we call "crunching" for short for some reason is a program that runs many different tasks.
"Number crunching," no idea where it originated in terms of being applied to WCG.

I refer to the work as "tasks" (what they are labeled in BOINC). A task is synonymous with "work unit" in F@H. It is a set of operations to be executed and, upon completion, returned.

My computers are processing 16 tasks right now.
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