[SWLUG] bbc climate model

[James]

I was running it, but after looking at its progress after 3 weeks and 
only seeing 6%, I closed it, and deleted it. Id much rather have seen an 
option for it to make more use of the resources - instead it just 
toddled along extremely slow as if I was busy on the pc all day.  Then 
again, I cant help wondering whether its just an over-bloated system 
(remind me never to tick all software packages when installing). That, 
and amarok was always running (albeit, not actually playing anything).

Another problem is that the climate models deadline is in May. That 
leaves one month to get 100% done (unless May is just when results are 
shown on the news).

brent wrote:

>Hi,
>is anyone running the bbc climate model?
>
>I am finding it problematic.  Its failed twice now, the first time after a few 
>days and again after running for about 3 weeks reporting a SIGSEG fault. I 
>have reported it to the BBC message board and it looks like their not sure 
>either.  It would be of interest to me to know how many people are running 
>this and if they have had problems.
>
>Aparently it may affect motherboards equipped with NVidia based graphics, it 
>may be associated with the client software which runs the model, it may be 
>library incompatablity issues. 
>
>I thought I would poll the group to see how many are running the model and 
>what system configurations they are using to help track down the problem. 
> 
>regards,
>Brent
>
>I use Mandrake 10.1 (red hat based) running KDE 3.2.3. on ABit NF7 m/board 
>with NVidia graphics built.-in fitted with AMD 2000 Athlon
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