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You could create a cc_config.xml file, and change the <ncpus>N</ncpus>-setting. This can be used to fool the client into thinking your computer has more cores than actually available. This setting is intended for testing and, I think, will result in N models running. When you have downloaded enough models I, therefore recommend changing this setting back or deleting/renaming the cc_config.xml file. For more info on this config file, click this link: cc_config.xml

I\'d advise a connection about every 5 weeks if you can do it.

You\'d have to make sure the computer has plenty of work in advance to get on with. If this is likely to be a problem let us know because there may still be a way to edit a file to trick the server into thinking the machine has more cores than in reality. This makes the server send extra work, way above usual. (Not advisable of course for most circumstances.)

If the computer that now has extra memory processes another HadAM in future it will be interesting to see whether the crunching is faster.

It looks like it has finished Iain. I wont be in to the office until after it reports. Does that mean the cpdn files wont be saved for it?

The trickles are already on the Web site and the temperature/precipitation graphs too. So the model looks like a conventional success - and no evidence of an iceworld from the graphs, just the same cool and dry climate reported by the other finisher in the work unit.

I\'m not sure at exactly what point the \'.cpdn\' files are tidied up, but they will certainly have been done by the time the model gets to report. It is a bit of a problem having to know that an iceworld is coming before turning the recording on: I try to download new models as far ahead of time as possible (the BOINC maximum is ten days), so that someone else can get ahead of me. Otherwise, the best method is to wait for an iceworld and then re-run it from backup with the recording switched on some time before the freeze (but I know that\'s a bit of a hassle).

Thanks for looking at that, Rick.

The complete model in that work unit is showing a marked decline in precipitation (here) but has a complete set of temperature and precipitation data and doesn\'t slow down. So, I\'d bet that your model will finish OK, though it would appear to have an odd climate.

Tell us how it develops. Even if it finishes successfully, you could treat this model as a dry run (no pun intended) for an iceworld - see if you can find where the plaback \'.cpdn\' files are stored: there should be thousands by now. They\'re cleaned up when the model finishes.

Iain

If the computer that now has extra memory processes another HadAM in future it will be interesting to see whether the crunching is faster.

check to make sure it\'s not cheaper just to get 2 one GB sticks and using just those instead of getting 3 more identical 512 MB sticks.

It\'s hadam3 that supposedly needs 1.5 GB of RAM, not hadam3p. But hadam3p is the 2nd most memory intensive of all the models, and I could see troubles with running out of memory with it, especially if running in tandem with any other model. With only 500 MB of RAM, running even 2 hadsm3/hadsm3mh models at the same time might get kind of iffy if that PC does anything else.

But you should be able to finish the hadam3p, just maybe not when running another model type as well.

It does work for me, but only when I enabled email notification in the Community Preferences section of my account.

Hi, Everyone:

I have been running Windows 7 (first the beta and now the release candidate) since they first became available and I’ve noticed something. The models seem much more stable under Windows 7 than they did using Vista.

When I was using Vista I hardly ever got through a model with it crashing and being restored at least once. The only thing that saved me was lots of backups. Since installing Windows 7 I have had hardly a crash. The computer hardware hasn’t changed. This increased stability seems to hold true regardless of the type of WU. While most of the models that I have benn running have been HadAM3p’s, I also finished a HadCM3 and a HadSMmh. Both seemed more stable.

Has anyone else noticed this? I also wonder if Intel chips running HadSM’s on Windows 7 are less likely to produce ice worlds????

A recent discussion in another projects forums discussed alternative projects and the question came up about CPDN Model Dates displayed in the screensavers. ie; 1976 - 1978 or 1996-1998. Im currently running a HADAM3P with the latter dates. The discussion questioned why past dates are used if were predicting future climates? The theories, mine included, surmized that in order to produce viable future data that models may be used to compare historical actuals thereby validating the models abilities to predict future scenarios. Or are they dates just picked out of thin air to produce a theoretical timeline?

I'd like to add Cheers to Les & M.O.V. as well for their input.