The CPU count can easily be wacko as I'm finding out now that I'm sneaker netting WUs around to whatever machine I'm on at the moment. WUs can be run off a thumb drive and carried with or left behind on a HD to stop by and pick up later.
I know. I'm constantly trying to go back, and delete work folders, and restarting new work units, every tiime one of my macines gets ghosted, or else, it's going to be spinning wheels for 20 days or so, until the server figures out, that it's a duplicate work unit, and time to issue another.
I just wish, there was something, on Stanford's web site, that would list the active/inactive machines, so someone with a herd of them, could see at a glance, which ones aren't active for whatever reason.