I run BOINC on my linux PC as a daemon, i.e. it starts when I boot and it stops during shutdown. For the rest it is out of the way. A small script keeps me up-to-date while logged on. By now I have clocked up 42 years and see that I have a cold WU (see here.

One drawback of running CPDN (and others) as a daemon is that I never see how my earth looks by now. With older I could visualise this with a standalone program; I think I read somewhere that standalone visualisation is no longer possible with the coupled models, but I have not been able to find an absolute statement on that.

Anybody who can either confirm my suspicion or point me in the right direction? Running the model from the boinc client is not (really) an option; boinc runs under a separate user which has a locked down account.

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