Rick, on looking at your results I find that 3 of your past/crashed models show -161 errors. These probably happened because of some incident/event on your computer. Have you tried to identify from Mike\'s top post in this thread what the problem(s) may have been?

4 of your past models, including the one that\'s just gone down, crashed with -107 codes. This usually indicates a graphics problem, momentary or longstanding, on your computer. Have you gone to the link Mike provides in his second post up above? Have you, as Thyme Lawn explains in the link, updated your graphics card driver (free download from the web a bit like Windows updates)?

We advise everyone to back up their climate models. The models take upwards of 4 months to complete (up to a year on my computer), running 24/7. It is fairly likely that something will go wrong on the computer during such a long period. So these long workunits/simulations are only suitable for committed members willing to make regular backups.

Tobie: Excellent, hope it continues to run :-)

Rick: Have you tried Prime95\'s torture test for a day or so? This will let you confirm that the hardware is OK under stress. The model is pretty much the most stressful software the PC will ever run.

Perhaps you should send a copy of your complaints to the UK Met office.
After all, it IS their code, and they run it daily on their supercomputers for weather and climate forecasting. So the sooner they know how terrible it is the better.