Just wondering if CPDN is going to fix the problem of duplicate computer names like SETI did.

I know it is just a trivial thing but it would be a nice thing to be able to merge the duplicate hosts. Some little glitch has changed the way the proccesor is identified or so it appears to me.

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With the projects one and only programmer so busy with the science part, it is unlikely that problems such as this will be even thought about anytime soon.

The 'glitch' was a change in the way that BOINC checks the processors internal type info and 'publishes' it. I think it was an attempt to fix an earlier problem with extracting the data, and it has created another problem.

Les

> With the projects one and only programmer so busy with the science part, it is
> unlikely that problems such as this will be even thought about anytime soon.
>
> The 'glitch' was a change in the way that BOINC checks the processors internal
> type info and 'publishes' it. I think it was an attempt to fix an earlier
> problem with extracting the data, and it has created another problem.

CPDN has an additional problem that didn't show up on the other projects. I changed CPUs in one of my machines and was able to merge it back with the old host on LHC (and I think on all the projects except CPDN, will confirm). It doesn't seem to want to merge "AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+" and "AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm)" even though everything else is the same.