... the problem is a recurring one ...

indeed it is.
What I am wondering is that obviously no one keeps track of the expiration dates of the various licenses :-(

I am surprised it is taking this long to fix the issue...

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I am surprised it is taking this long to fix the issue...

Holidays, weekends, too few people.

I am surprised it is taking this long to fix the issue...

Holidays, weekends, too few people.

Oh, c'mon. We know that there are too few people on workdays too.

Maybe just too few people interested.

They by their own admission have few people who understand BOINC, the very platform that gives them 2.5 Pflops/sec of free computing power.
I think if someone donated that much computing power to me at no cost I would have made sure I had people that understood BOINC on hand and paid attention to very simple issues like licensing.
But apparently it's not as important as they keep saying or they would look after the resource much better than they do.

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As far as I know a new app was uploaded but still not working. Licensing is not related to BOINC.

The problem with BOINC is that it runs the apps in an almost opaque environment, so when things go wrong there is no useful indication on the direction to take to a speedy fix.

Licensing is not related to BOINC.

I didn't say it was but it is related to your project and App.

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@betting slip

for some reason your host 171874 is the only one where the app is still working.

I turned the system clock back to before the time the license expired which allowed the Windows App to work but then someone deprecated the App thus I couldn't do that any longer.

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I turned the system clock back to before the time the license expired ...

hm, how did you know in advance ?

The problem with BOINC is that it runs the apps in an almost opaque environment, so when things go wrong there is no useful indication on the direction to take to a speedy fix.

did you ever consider to come up with your own application, indipendent of BOINC (similar to what FAH is doing)?

Yes but it's a huge development effort. Admittedly once done you have full control but we don't have the resources to do this.

This may be incredibly ignorant of me but why not release the old windows app with a different version number and renewed license.
Everything works again...no?

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I had been running the Windows App on my fastest system successfully after the 14th July license problems (which occur annually but seem to take you by surprise every time) by turning my system time back.

If your running other projects other than GPUGrid, I would strongly recommend that you don't set your clock back, you could get validation errors or WU's canceled because of deadline over-run.

I would like to add that setting of the system clock back in time will break Windows Update and the update automation of many antivirus products, so this is highly not recommended thus could serve only as a temporary measure and do it only at your own risk.

I will be switching all of my crunching systems to Linux as I don't see this will be fixed anytime soon.

I will be a patient donator, and my systems will gladly do work when the admins have had enough time to fix the problems. Some of you guys get upset too easily, and your knee-jerk reactions are a bit rude.

I will be a patient donator, and my systems will gladly do work when the admins have had enough time to fix the problems. Some of you guys get upset too easily, and your knee-jerk reactions are a bit rude.

Well their data still needs to be processed at the end of the day, and if we wait around and don't adapt to the situation the simulations will still be sitting there waiting to be processed and we will be that much further away from a cure.

I will be a patient donator, and my systems will gladly do work when the admins have had enough time to fix the problems

+1

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I will be a patient donator, and my systems will gladly do work when the admins have had enough time to fix the problems. Some of you guys get upset too easily, and your knee-jerk reactions are a bit rude.

Well their data still needs to be processed at the end of the day, and if we wait around and don't adapt to the situation the simulations will still be sitting there waiting to be processed and we will be that much further away from a cure.

I will be switching all of my crunching systems to Linux as I don't see this will be fixed anytime soon.

+1
I've swapped my GTX 1080 Ti from my main rig and installed Linux to my 3 online hosts on the last weekend.
I wanted to do it anyway to get rid of WDDM.
I'd like to have SWAN_SYNC in the Linux app too.

...I wanted to do it anyway to get rid of WDDM.
I'd like to have SWAN_SYNC in the Linux app too.

good point.
Just out of interest, my question is: what slows up GPUGRID crunching more: the Windows WDDM or the missing Swan_sync with Linux?