Graham,

The main thing to check is whether the models are crashing with a physics-related error message or with something that suggests the type of thing in DJStarfox's list.

If you look at a task result page - e.g. here - and expand the Stderr field and see the model ending:

Model crashed: ATM_DYN : INVALID THETA DETECTED.

or 'negative pressure' then that's an unviable model. The FAMOUS models are very prone to this and it's expected that many of them will fail.

Three out of five of your models have failed that way. The other two failed with a -185 error, which needs looking into.

Iain

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=11460092

process exited with code 22 (0x16, -234)

Suspended CPDN Monitor - Suspend request from BOINC...

Model crashed: ATM_DYN : INVALID THETA DETECTED.

error

Status shows them all online. I think the keyword in your post is "Timeout". The climateapps2 server is on temporary hardware and had has been difficult to reach at times. Milo is trying to work around the problems.

The usual "solution" when this happens is to try again later and hope for the best. Good luck!

[Edited for typo.]

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And your point is???

Adrian, if this is the model 8377076 running on Q6400 910240, the PC has already run a similar 160 year CM3 model 8099111 from 26 Sep 2008 to 7 Feb 2009, at 2.37 s/TS, using 2729 cpu hours.

The new one is another long 160 year model, your last one took about 4.3 months, so the 9060 hours is perhaps misleading. If the PC is on 24/7 at 2.37 s/TS it should be around 3.7 months.
HTH.