Matt,
Thank you for your efforts!
(I can give you remote access to my Win XP hosts if you want...)

I appreciate your efforts

Thank you for explaining why you are doing what you are doing and I personally greatly appreciate you letting us use windows XP for another year.
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Thank you for explaining why you are doing what you are doing and I personally greatly appreciate you letting us use windows XP for another year.

Good to know. I actually obtained a copy of WinXP specifically for GPUGrid. I was going to try to create a dual-boot machine. Doesn't seem worth it to put the resources into building a new rig now. I'll just build onto what I've got.

Regarding the recent WannaCrypt attacks, Microsoft has released a vulnerability patch for older operating systems as well.
This update won't download automatically, as it has not been put into Windows Update.
You can find the original technet blogpost here (but it throws a runtime error right now).
There's a lot of links in that post to the patches for older operating systems.
However I can provide a direct download link for Windows XP x64 / Windows Server 2003 x64 (English only)
You can also do a search for kb4012598 on the web.
You can select the appropriate patch for your os from the Microsoft Update Catalog.

Regarding the recent WannaCrypt attacks, Microsoft has released a vulnerability patch for older operating systems as well.
This update won't download automatically, as it has not been put into Windows Update.
You can find the original technet blogpost here (but it throws a runtime error right now).
There's a lot of links in that post to the patches for older operating systems.
However I can provide a direct download link for Windows XP x64 / Windows Server 2003 x64 (English only)
You can also do a search for kb4012598 on the web.
You can select the appropriate patch for your os from the Microsoft Update Catalog.

Thank you Zoltan! I appreciate it!

Chapeau!
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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

Stefan wrote:

Matt has effectively left our team so now we have hired a new person to work on Acemd and it's replacement in Acemd3.

Stefan wrote:

Matt has effectively left our team so now we have hired a new person to work on Acemd and it's replacement in Acemd3.

As you may remember, last April Matt announced that Windows XP support will definitely be stopped in April 2018.
I strongly had the feeling that this was a decision made by himself, as he probably planned not take his time to put together another crunching software for XP.

Now that Matt has left GPUGRID, I hope that the team and the new person see the situation differently, and that the crunchers who still use Windows XP for good reason will get a crunching software beyond April 2018.

Regarding the recent WannaCrypt attacks, Microsoft has released a vulnerability patch for older operating systems as well.
This update won't download automatically, as it has not been put into Windows Update.
You can find the original technet blogpost here (but it throws a runtime error right now).
There's a lot of links in that post to the patches for older operating systems.
However I can provide a direct download link for Windows XP x64 / Windows Server 2003 x64 (English only)
You can also do a search for kb4012598 on the web.
You can select the appropriate patch for your os from the Microsoft Update Catalog.

I agree that support should continue for xp as long as the video cards that it supports are still relevant to the project.

Here is an example of an obsolete computer, running an obsolete operating system, with an obsolete video driver in the top 10 in the performance tab:

Rank User name Avg (h) Total GPU description of fastest setup 1 Phil 5.08235 17 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (4095MB) driver: 384.94 2 Retvari Zoltan 6.03388 121 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (4095MB) driver: 358.50 3 PappaLitto 6.10000 54 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (4095MB) driver: 385.41 4 Bedrich Hajek 6.13636 11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (4095MB) driver: 355.82 5 Thurgwood 6.22727 11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (4095MB) driver: 382.33 6 Tobi 6.35294 17 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (4095MB) driver: 385.41 7 bcavnaugh 6.45224 67 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (4095MB) driver: 378.92 8 Trotador 6.57273 22 [2] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (4095MB) driver: 370.28 9 Jackal 6.67368 38 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (4095MB) driver: 385.28 10 Drallin 6.74375 16 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (4095MB) driver: 385.41

It's actually number 4 right now, ahead of a few (not all) pascals, but still relevant.

Did they hire the new technical people, yet?

I agree that support should continue for xp as long as the video cards that it supports are still relevant to the project.

Did they hire the new technical people, yet?

There's no sign of that.

Xp will stop as announced. The number of Xp hosts is very small compared to the rest. If you can please update to Win10.

gdf

Xp will stop as announced. The number of Xp hosts is very small compared to the rest.

I mean, we will compile under Windows10 and make no tests on WindowsXP. If it works, then ok.
gdf

Well... on the bright side we still have until April at least!

Also, there's always Ubuntu (Linux) which definitely uses more GPU usage than windows 10 does! Not as good and steady as XP but it's a good route to take after April, in my opinion.

Besides that I suggest everyone sell their old gpu's and go to the 10 series considering they are so much faster and power efficient. You won't regret it. My 1060 performs faster on windows 10 with WDDM by a few hours at least compared to my 960 being at 99% usage without WDDM .
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Cruncher/Learner in progress.

Ubuntu uses like 7% of my CPU by the time tasks are done.

Ubuntu uses like 7% of my CPU by the time tasks are done.

"The GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 support Windows 7 and above. There are no plans to add driver support Windows XP."

Xp will stop as announced. The number of Xp hosts is very small compared to the rest.

This is bad news, indeed :-(

Xp will stop as announced. The number of Xp hosts is very small compared to the rest.

This is bad news, indeed :-(

This is normal, in 2018.

A lot of sw house and hw manufacturer dropped out xp time ago.

"The GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 support Windows 7 and above. There are no plans to add driver support Windows XP."

Manuel Guzman, Nvidia Customer Care, November 2016.

Ubuntu uses like 7% of my CPU by the time tasks are done.

and this is exactly the bad thing: since no SWAN_SYNC is possible with Linux, the CPU usage of GPUGRID computations is far away from what it could be :-(

Hence, Linux is not a full replacement for Windows XP :-(

Linux IS the perfect replacement for XP whether CPU usage or not, it still uses more of your GPU power compared to windows 7/10. Is it sad XP support is stopped? Yeah it is. But it's time to move on. Like I said, Linux is a good replacement for after April.
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Cruncher/Learner in progress.

Any estimate of the date when this is going to happen?

The 1st of April or the last? or somewhere in between?

It's already happened, of course you will not notice anything until the next generation of GpuGrid Apps are released because current Apps support XP.

It's already happened, of course you will not notice anything until the next generation of GpuGrid Apps are released because current Apps support XP.

It's already happened, of course you will not notice anything until the next generation of GpuGrid Apps are released because current Apps support XP.

No. Windows XP users will notice that the present CUDA6.5 app (v8.49) will not work any longer at all after x April 2018.
The question is the exact date (x) when it will happen, as it was not declared in the original post and ever since.

It's already happened, of course you will not notice anything until the next generation of GpuGrid Apps are released because current Apps support XP.

No. Windows XP users will notice that the present CUDA6.5 app (v8.49) will not work any longer at all after x April 2018.
The question is the exact date (x) when it will happen, as it was not declared in the original post and ever since.

yea, would be great if the GPUGRID people would let us know the exact date beforehand.

It's already happened, of course you will not notice anything until the next generation of GpuGrid Apps are released because current Apps support XP.

No. Windows XP users will notice that the present CUDA6.5 app (v8.49) will not work any longer at all after x April 2018.
The question is the exact date (x) when it will happen, as it was not declared in the original post and ever since.

I can't see any reason to withdraw the Cuda 6.5 App until new generation of Apps are released. Wouldn't that mean that CC3.0 cards won't work on any OS?

The problem is to do with software licensing: the app will simply refuse to run without any new 'sabotage' by anyone.

The problem is to do with software licensing

Seriously?
XP is dead, time to move on. Devs dont have time to deal with ten combinations of OSes, drivers, app or CUDA versions.
If you are advanced enough to make real use of XP you should be able to use linux. Free, fast and able to crunch QM app as well.

I recommend Lubuntu 17.10. It worked always for me with BOINC. As a user wrote in the forums over in SETI:
"The reason for Lubuntu is to provide a lightweight OS that works well with 'lightweight' hardware. It has an XP like Task Bar and start Menu which should make it a big hit with all those XP & Win 7 holdovers 'cause we know from Win 8 that all 90% of Windoze users care about is their Start Menu.

You can read about it here, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu
Hmmm, an XP Start Menu with the ability to run the latest nVidia GPUs, what more could an XP fanboy wish for?"

I recommend Lubuntu 17.10. It worked always for me with BOINC. As a user wrote in the forums over in SETI:
"The reason for Lubuntu is to provide a lightweight OS that works well with 'lightweight' hardware. It has an XP like Task Bar and start Menu which should make it a big hit with all those XP & Win 7 holdovers 'cause we know from Win 8 that all 90% of Windoze users care about is their Start Menu.

it would still be great if someone from GPUGRID could give us the information at which exact date XP support will be stopped

"The GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 support Windows 7 and above. There are no plans to add driver support Windows XP."

Manuel Guzman, Nvidia Customer Care, November 2016.

FYI: at the release of GTX 1080, I've successfully "hacked" the then-fresh NV driver (with CUDA 8.0) for Windows XP (x64), and used my GTX 1080 under Windows XP (x64) for crunching Einstein@home tasks. It doesn't worked with GPUGrid though. So there's no "physical" obstacle of using the GTX 10 series under Windows XP it just made up by NVidia.

Windows XP users will notice that the present CUDA6.5 app (v8.49) will not work any longer at all after x April 2018.
The question is the exact date (x) when it will happen, as it was not declared in the original post and ever since.

The largest possible value for x is 17, because that's the date that app was deployed for the public to use.

In fact, it will be x-t, where t is the time used for internal testing between licensing and building the new app, and making it available to the public. From what I remember, that was pretty quick.