Maybe they are regrouping in order to die.
I never crunched this project but I had the idea it had the same purpose as Asteroids. In fact that is BOINC problem, in my point of view, having more than a project to the same problem and sometimes with the same method of research.
Science had enough of vanity between his own members creating delays and sometimes being a powerful motivational, leading science to the next level. Behind a big man (or woman) is always a big EGO.