[SWLUG] BBC climate model

[brent]

Hi James,
 thanks for responding.

I'm pleased to hear that it ran without problems albeit rather slowly.  Can 
you recall if you ran the model through the transition end of Feb beyond 
beginning of March. In each case my model failed at the start of the month.
Also you did not give me your system profile (Linux distro, kernel, kde, 
hardware)

It was much the same for me I have been running the model 24/7 since 10 March 
on my machine it progresses by about 1% every 25hrs - that is at best 3 
months to completion at that rate. And no way was I likely to continue at 
that rate.  The indicated completion date by the manager application itself 
reported Feb, 2007. 

Makes you wonder what auntie beeb is playing at, doesn't it?

Brent


> 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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