Hi there,
I just started using GR a few weeks ago, and just today found out that WCG is a separate site and service — just wondering if I "already have an account there" since I added their service via GR? Or should I create a "new" account there, and hope that it somehow sees my GR/WCG stats?
Thanks,
-Eric
Hi Eric,
If you did not have a World Community Grid (WCG) account before joining GridRepublic and you successfully added the WCG project on GridRepublic (success meaning you recieved work and see some points for that project in your account). Then yes you have an account now at the WCG. This is also true for all projects as GridRepublic acts as an intermediary only and does not run the projects.
While we do not yet have automatic login you can login to their site with your email and password from GridRepublic. If that does not work you should be able to recover your WCG account login information.
We would like to make this all as seamless as possible... in time.
Hmm, it's not working for some reason — the WCG grid site doesn't recognize my email address.
Any other suggestions?
Sorry about that Eric, I gave the wrong information.
World Community Grid uses usernames not emails.
I meant to say if the account was created by GridRepublic you would use the name that appears under the My Accoung tab on gridrepublic.org when you are logged in. Or the username that you created on World Community Grid if you joined that before joining GridRepublic.
Try that and it should work.
Glad to hear it is working for you. WCG is the only project that has the username quirk for login. The rest use the email and password.