The trickle-up worked fine but BOINC will not upload the ten year file. Message trace as follows:

16/10/2008 20:09:12||Starting BOINC client version 5.8.16 for windows_intelx86
16/10/2008 20:09:12||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
16/10/2008 20:09:12||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3
16/10/2008 20:09:12||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC
16/10/2008 20:09:12||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.50GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7] [fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx]
16/10/2008 20:09:12||Memory: 1.25 GB physical, 2.98 GB virtual
16/10/2008 20:09:12||Disk: 48.83 GB total, 15.60 GB free
16/10/2008 20:09:12|climateprediction.net|URL: http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID: 808998; location: home; project prefs: default
16/10/2008 20:09:12||General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2007-07-18 23:41:38)
16/10/2008 20:09:12||Host location: home
16/10/2008 20:09:12||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
16/10/2008 20:09:12||Suspending network activity - user request
16/10/2008 20:09:12|climateprediction.net|Restarting task hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1 using hadcm3i version 544
16/10/2008 20:10:21||Resuming network activity
16/10/2008 20:10:22|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message
16/10/2008 20:10:22|climateprediction.net|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
16/10/2008 20:10:23|climateprediction.net|[file_xfer] Started upload of file hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1_2.zip
16/10/2008 20:10:27||A new version of BOINC (6.2.19) is available for your computer
16/10/2008 20:10:27||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php to get it.
16/10/2008 20:10:37|climateprediction.net|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
16/10/2008 20:15:38||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
16/10/2008 20:15:38|climateprediction.net|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1_2.zip: http error
16/10/2008 20:15:38|climateprediction.net|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of file hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1_2.zip
16/10/2008 20:15:56||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
16/10/2008 20:16:38|climateprediction.net|[file_xfer] Started upload of file hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1_2.zip
16/10/2008 20:21:40||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
16/10/2008 20:21:40|climateprediction.net|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1_2.zip: http error
16/10/2008 20:21:40|climateprediction.net|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of file hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1_2.zip
16/10/2008 20:21:58||Access to reference site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration.
16/10/2008 20:22:30||Suspending network activity - user request

The trickle-up worked fine but BOINC will not upload the ten year file.

Sorry, stupid firewall ;-)

But strangely the file uploaded very quickly. More messages:

16/10/2008 22:08:24||Starting BOINC client version 5.8.16 for windows_intelx86
16/10/2008 22:08:24||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
16/10/2008 22:08:24||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3
16/10/2008 22:08:24||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC
16/10/2008 22:08:24||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.50GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7] [fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx]
16/10/2008 22:08:24||Memory: 1.25 GB physical, 2.98 GB virtual
16/10/2008 22:08:24||Disk: 48.83 GB total, 15.58 GB free
16/10/2008 22:08:24|climateprediction.net|URL: http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID: 808998; location: home; project prefs: default
16/10/2008 22:08:24||General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2007-07-18 23:41:38)
16/10/2008 22:08:24||Host location: home
16/10/2008 22:08:24||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
16/10/2008 22:08:24||Suspending network activity - user request
16/10/2008 22:08:25|climateprediction.net|Restarting task hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1 using hadcm3i version 544
16/10/2008 22:09:31||Resuming network activity
16/10/2008 22:09:32|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message
16/10/2008 22:09:32|climateprediction.net|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
16/10/2008 22:09:33|climateprediction.net|[file_xfer] Started upload of file hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1_2.zip
16/10/2008 22:09:37||A new version of BOINC (6.2.19) is available for your computer
16/10/2008 22:09:37||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php to get it.
16/10/2008 22:09:41|climateprediction.net|[file_xfer] Finished upload of file hadcm3istd_16xe_1920_160_05996223_1_2.zip
16/10/2008 22:09:41|climateprediction.net|[file_xfer] Throughput 39 bytes/sec
16/10/2008 22:09:52|climateprediction.net|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
16/10/2008 22:10:13||Suspending network activity - user request

Hi Moon Rock, welcome to the forum.

You were very sharp to notice that abnormally quick file upload and it\'s a good thing you did. I\'ve looked at the model\'s graphs on its web page. They aren\'t normal for the first few years. I selected different graphs from the drop-down menu and none I looked at seemed normal. The graphs have improved after the first crazy five years, but the quick decadal upload suggests to me that the file was probably smaller than it should be.

Your model may not be processing all the data. If you complete it, it will probably be rejected by quality control. Abort it and get another. You\'ll keep your credits for all the work you\'ve done on this model. Remember that in your CPDN preferences in your account you can choose the type of model you want to run next.

Before you abort this model could you please look at its graphics and tell us whether you see the normal range of colours or the globe is all one colour.

I\'ll now look at how the other models in the same workunit are progressing.

Edit: The other models in that workunit are doing fine so far.
Moon Rock, I\'ve looked at your previous model that crashed and its graphs weren\'t normal either:

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?field=gm_pr&resultid=7897303&phase=1

The other models in this previous workunit all produced normal graphs from the beginning.

Moon Rock, is there anything on your computer that could be causing it to run slightly unstably? Does it ever restart itself or turn itself off? Is it overclocked to speed it up? Any of its settings altered for any reason?

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Hi Moon Rock, welcome to the forum.

Before you abort this model could you please look at its graphics and tell us whether you see the normal range of colours or the globe is all one colour.

The graphic is showing the normal range of colours across the globe.

Moon Rock, is there anything on your computer that could be causing it to run slightly unstably? Does it ever restart itself or turn itself off? Is it overclocked to speed it up? Any of its settings altered for any reason?

I don\'t think there is any reason to think it is unstable. It rarely crashes and is not overclocked. The CPU temperature is currently 47 degrees C as reported by aida32.

Thanks for investigating, mo.v

That\'s a good temperature, enviable even. A small proportion of models do turn out to be flawed. In such cases they usually misbehave or crash on all the computers running them, or on all the computers with a particular OS. However, there have been previous cases where a model from a workunit has become abnormal on one computer only, while continuing normally on the other computers.

We\'ve seen abnormal graphs similar to the ones for your two models before.

The same thing happening to two models in short succession could be an unlucky coincidence. If I were you, every two or three days I\'d keep an eye on the graphics and graphs of future models. If most develop normally then you have nothing to worry about. If more models produce bizarre results you\'d need to think about investigating the computer\'s stability.

If you\'re running the screensaver you could disable it. You\'d still be able to view the model\'s graphics using the button in BOINC manager.

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