Posts by old_user162591

1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Time to Completion and Sulphur Model (Message 23212) Posted 18 Jun 2006 by old_user162591 Post: \'Sulphur\' models were a short, 4-6 months, project, starting in about October last year, to get values of sulphates for starting the Coupled Ocean models. Which is why the early sulphur models had a very short deadline. The coupled Ocean models started on February 14th, as TCMs, Transient Coupled Models. Whether or not people wish to continue processing sulphur models is up to them. As you are running very slowly on a laptop, it may not be worth it. Phase one was set up to return extra data, which is/was valuable, and your first model has successfully passed this point. Moderators are no more knowledgable in this matter than other crunchers, but Carl said in the \'spinup\' project that the people running spinup, (a special project to get more values to start TCM), should move to TCM when they finished. Thanks, Les. It looks as though I should cut my losses and start with another project.
2) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Time to Completion and Sulphur Model (Message 23195) Posted 18 Jun 2006 by old_user162591 Post: Thanks, Mike. That\'s very helpful on the first issue, but I\'m not inclined to let my PC whirr away for months on a project that won\'t be of real value, so I\'d be grateful for a moderator\'s definitive answer on that one.
3) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Time to Completion and Sulphur Model (Message 23192) Posted 18 Jun 2006 by old_user162591 Post: I\'ve clocked up 665 hours (27.50%)under sulphur model sulphur_i36h_200843929_0 in application sulphur_cycle 4.22. Yesterday, there were 2380 hours to completion. I have two queries: 1. Why, this morning, with the program suspended overnight, has the time to completion increased to 2,648 hours (percentage completed remains at 27.50)? 2. By chance, I\'ve read on your message board that the sulphur model is obsolete, so am I wasting my time and is there no way that this fact could have been communicated direct to me? Should I now delete the project? Thanks.