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Questions and Answers :
Wish list :
more info on our models
(Message 31406)
Posted 16 Nov 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Hi, everyone. As long as you are asking for our wish list, here mine. I would like to see a screen that keep track of the CO2 and other environmental variables and the average temp of the Earth in our models. It would be nice if it also kept a running tally of how much thes conditions have changed since the model began. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
time to finish seems to not really change now.
(Message 31242)
Posted 1 Nov 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Two of the three models that have crashed in that work unit never got started; the third crashed with a problem with the PC. So there\'s every chance that the model you\'re running will complete successfully. Frequent backups really do pay off. I learned this the hard way. Before I got into the habit of making daily backups I lost several models in various states of completion. Before I saw the light (about making frequent backups) I never got beyond 30% or 40%. My models still crash, but, now I just restore and go on. I had to do a restore just yesterday. Somehow my model got crashed while I was installing an update from Microsoft. I don’t know why, I had exited before I started, but, after the restart the model was crashed. A simple restore turned a potential disaster in a minor glitch. All I lost was 20 hours of CPU time. My model is now at 87.5% and crunching happily. |
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Message boards :
Cafe CPDN :
The Far Future
(Message 31063)
Posted 22 Oct 2007 by old_user195056 Post: I believe that both London and New York are at risk from sea level rise. Am I right in thinking that parts of the NY subway already flood sometimes? Hi, this is Jim. Yes the Subways have flooded twice in the last 4 months, but, that seem to be due mostly to poor drainage system in the tunnels during heavy rain. But you are right about New York City and Long Island being very vulnerable to sea level rise. A rise of only 3 feet would flood parts of lower Manhattan. The South Shore of Long Island is also vulnerable. Sea level rise will greatly increase the pace of storm erosion. My house should be safe enough for as long as I need it. According to Google Earth it is 131 feet above sea level. |
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Cafe CPDN :
The Far Future
(Message 31016)
Posted 19 Oct 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Yesterday I saw one of my models reach my 100th birthday - more likely to be celebrated in my absence by my children as the 100th anniversary of my birth. Exactly the same thoughts and intimations of mortality crossed my mind, but I can\'t say it makes me feel depressed. It does help to place our lifespan and what we do during it within a wider historical context. The whole-world graphics perhaps also help us take a global view of what\'s happening instead of being limited to a local or national perspective. Hi, this is Jim. I do try to keep a global perspective on this issue. I hope that on the 100 anniversary of my birth the World will be a better (or at least not a worse) place. I have been an environmentalist since the first Earth Day back in the 1970s. One of the reasons that I am taking part in the Climateprediction project is the hope that in some very small way I can help stop the ruinous change in our climate. I live on Long Island, only seven miles from the ocean. It would be best if our decedents didn’t have to live in coastal cities surrounded by levees. The people of New Orleans learned the hard way the consequences of living in a city that is below sea level. |
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Cafe CPDN :
The Far Future
(Message 31010)
Posted 19 Oct 2007 by old_user195056 Post: I realize this isn\'t really important, but, I was just wondering if anyone else feels the way I do. My model just reached 2050. As I was looking at the date, I realized that I probably won’t live to see that day. I was born in 1950. In 2050 I will be 100 years old. I certainly won’t live to see 2080. I supposed that some of the younger people running the model can confidently expect to live to see 2080, but, I won’t. It makes me feel a little depressed. Does it make anyone else out there feel the same? |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Model resets when restarting on Vista
(Message 30966)
Posted 15 Oct 2007 by old_user195056 Post: I have identified part of the cause of my reset problem. If I shut down or restart Vista without exiting BOINC first, it resets to zero with a new model name. However, if I exit first it carries on where it left off on the next startup. I have restarted many times without a problem, reaching 18% completion, but today forgot to exit befor shutting down and it has now started a new model at 0%. This is very frustrating, but I have not seen any other similar queries. Could there be a permanent fix to this error? Dear Andrew: I have been running the model on Vista since last May.(79% complete this morening)I don’t know why you loose the model every time you shutdown without exiting. My model usually survives a running shutdown. Maybe your computer shuts down faster than mine. Mine seems to take forever sometimes. The solution to your problem is simple. First, click “No New Tasks†so that you do not keep getting new WUs every time that you forget to exit before rebooting. Second, make very frequent backups. I make one every 0.5%. I know this may sound extreme, but, it works. Once you do it a few times it becomes second nature and you can do it in your sleep. Whenever you forget to exit you can just restore from the backup. It only takes a couple of minutes. I know I have done it a least a dozen times. Hope this helps. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Servers down message...
(Message 30515)
Posted 16 Sep 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Hi, Hi. I’m running Vista Home Premium also. If you are really serious about fixing it so that you don’t need to OK boinc after every reboot then turn off “User Account Control.†Be aware that this will make it more likely that a virus or other rogue program can download and setup on your machine. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Servers down message...
(Message 30514)
Posted 16 Sep 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Hi, |
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Message boards :
climateprediction.net Science :
server meltdown?
(Message 29294)
Posted 26 Jun 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Now that your back, what the hell happened? Five days offline. |
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Message boards :
Cafe CPDN :
MILESTONE
(Message 29252)
Posted 14 Jun 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Jim Hi Les, this is Jim, aka, PUDDIN TAME. The problem my be that I am registered twice. Could it have anything to do with the fact that I was running XP when I downloaded the WU, but have since upgraded to Vista? Is it really that important as long as the program is running normally and sending trickles. My most recent trickle message is displayed below: 6/14/2007 3:49:19 AM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message 6/14/2007 3:49:19 AM|climateprediction.net|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks) 6/14/2007 3:49:24 AM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] I don’t really care about the credits as long as the model will upload the results properly at the end. |
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Message boards :
Cafe CPDN :
MILESTONE
(Message 29246)
Posted 14 Jun 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Jim, I can\'t see any recent trickles for any model on you server web pages. Which model are you crunching? I am running the HadCM3 coupled model experiement 5.15. The program sends a trikles every dec. 4 and the server acknowledges the messages. |
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Message boards :
Cafe CPDN :
MILESTONE
(Message 29228)
Posted 12 Jun 2007 by old_user195056 Post: MY MODEL HIT 20% TOADY. HIP, HIP, HOORAY! |
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Message boards :
Cafe CPDN :
NO TEAM STATS?
(Message 29177)
Posted 6 Jun 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Hi, everyone. I don’t know if this is the right place to post this but here it is. A few weeks ago I joined team USA. For some reason my name and stats never appeared on the team webpage. With an RAC of 203 I should be somewhere around 60th place. I know that it’s the climate science not the standings and RACs are truly important, but, I do like to see how high I can get using only a lower end laptop. I tried resigning and joining again, but no joy. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
RETURNING A WU?
(Message 29046)
Posted 29 May 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Hi, everyone. I was wondering if there is any way to return an unneeded WU. I accidentally downloaded a second climateprediction WU due to a model crash. The manager automatically downloaded a replacement for the crashed unit. (I forgot to click “no new tasks.â€Â) The problem is that I didn’t need the new WU because I had a backup copy for the first WU and was able to restore it. I now have the second WU stored as a backup copy. Is there some way that I can return it so that someone else can run it? If I restored it and then aborted it would BOINC then give it to someone else? I ask because at the rate the work is going the first WU won’t be finished for 4 or 5 months yet. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Boinc running on vista ultimate not running smooth
(Message 28144)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by old_user195056 Post: If your computer is running short of memory under Vista you might want to try the ready boost feature contained in Vista. My laptop has 1 GB of Ram installed. When I installed Vista Home Premium I noticed that my computer was slower to open things than under XP and was falling back on virtual memory. I added a 4GB flash drive and it solved the problem. The speed is back up and Vista is no longer thrashing the HD. It even seems to be running climateprediction faster than XP. Hope this helps |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Advertising crawl in Graphics
(Message 26288)
Posted 22 Jan 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Hi, everyone. Does anyone know how to get rid of the advertising crawl for the program on BBC 1 that is still running in my model graphics. The show was yesterday, but, the ad is still running. Did the BBC slip a bit of adware in the program? I hope not. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
WU SIZE
(Message 26017)
Posted 14 Jan 2007 by old_user195056 Post: Hi, everyone. I am running the BBC model and I have been wondering about a seeming discrepancy in the size of the climate prediction WU. The BOINC manager says that it takes up 474.70 MB’s of disc space, but, when I make a backup the file size is about 1.88 GB. Where does the extra bulk come from in the backup file? |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
LOST WU?
(Message 25775)
Posted 30 Dec 2006 by old_user195056 Post: HELP! My WU crashed. I restored it from the backup file. I got it running again, but, every time it reaches the point were it trickles it crashes again. The server seems to have written the WU off. I still have the backup file, is there some way to save it. When it crashes I get the message below. 12/29/2006 10:30:55 PM|climateprediction.net|Computation for task hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1 finished 12/29/2006 10:30:56 PM|climateprediction.net|Unrecoverable error for result hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1 (<file_xfer_error> <file_name>hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1_3.zip</file_name> <error_code>-161</error_code></file_xfer_error><file_xfer_error> <file_name>hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1_4.zip</file_name> <error_code>-161</error_code></file_xfer_error><file_xfer_error> <file_name>hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1_5.zip</file_name> <error_code>-161</error_code></file_xfer_error><file_xfer_error> <file_name>hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1_6.zip</file_name> <error_code>-161</error_code></file_xfer_error><file_xfer_error> <file_name>hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1_7.zip</file_name> <error_code>-161</error_code></file_xfer_error><file_xfer_error> <file_name>hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1_8.zip</file_name> <error_code>-161</error_code></file_xfer_error><file_xfer_error> <file_name>hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1_9.zip</file_name> <error_code>-161</error_code></file_xfer_error><file_xfer_error> <file_name>hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1_10.zip</file_name> <erro 12/29/2006 10:30:56 PM|climateprediction.net|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds 12/29/2006 10:31:58 PM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 12/29/2006 10:31:58 PM|climateprediction.net|Reason: To report completed tasks 12/29/2006 10:31:58 PM|climateprediction.net|Reporting 1 tasks 12/29/2006 10:32:02 PM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request succeeded 12/29/2006 10:32:02 PM|climateprediction.net|Message from server: Completed result hadcm3ohc_1git_05616428_1 refused: result already reported as error The operative phrase here would seem to be \"refused: result already reported as error\". Is there any way to get it back? Please help. |
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Message boards :
Cafe CPDN :
backups
(Message 25594)
Posted 14 Dec 2006 by old_user195056 Post: Hi, everyone. I was just making a backup for the BBC climate prediction model. I began wondering about the boinc/climateprediction program. There are 67 files and folders. Each backup consumes 1.87GB of hard drive space. That’s on top of the 1.87GB being used by the model that is actually running. Ever since I have been wondering if anyone out there understands if it is necessary to make a new copy of all of these folders and files each time. Do all of them change as the model progresses, or only some. I assume that the loose files are the calculating machinery of the model, while the folders store the results of the calculations. If only a few of them change with time then it might be possible to burn the non-changing ones onto a DVD and only make copies of the parts of the program that change over time. When I compared the folders from 2 backups (6.5% complete and 8.5%) I found that the “projects†and “slots†folders increased in size while the other 4 folders stayed the same. The “Projects†folder at 1.17% is enormous. If it was possible to identify which files changed as the model runs and which remain the same then it would be possible to make serial copies of only the files that change The unchanging files could be stored on a DVD freeing up hard drive space. If a restore is ever needed, the changing files could be plugged in to the DVD copy of the unchanging files and reinstalled. This would be possible to save a lot of hard drive space. Ok, this is probably a ridiculous idea, but, it seems like it could work. If anyone out there knows why it couldn’t work please tell me. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
PROGRAM CONFLICT WARNING!
(Message 24508)
Posted 3 Oct 2006 by old_user195056 Post: Warning! Conflict Alert! Anyone running the climateprediction model should be very careful about installing the AOL free Xdrive remote file backup. I installed the Xdrive desktop and while trying to backup my files the Xdrive crashed the model. The WU was only 37% complete. Now suddenly is it is saying that it is 100% complete and ready to report. |
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