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I wouldn\'t bother trying it again. These negative pressure results mean the model\'s produced climate that\'s impossible in the real world due to that combination of inital parameter values. An unstable computer eg too far overclocked can also produce impossible climate. But if you\'re sure the computer\'s running stably, then it means you got an impossible model. It took a long time to freak out.

If you look at its graph, you\'ll see that it\'s only just an outlier, above the usual upper temperatures.

Still, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you took it as far as it could go.

Some of us think that backups made by a ghosting program with boinc running will sometimes turn out to be restorable but not always. I suspect you\'ve had an example of each.

If you exit boinc before backing up the boinc folder, almost 100% of the backups will be perfect. But if you have a number of computers, I appreciate that the hassle of exiting boinc on all the machines may be too time-consuming to be worth while, particularly if your computers rarely crash models. Easier to make frequent backups with boinc running even if the odd one turns out not to run.

It will be interesting to see whether the model crashes again at the same point. If it does, it really will be impossible climate that the model itself has generated. This is probably the most likely outcome but you never know. Let us know what happens.

When a cpdn model\'s complete the graph says 1920 - 2080 (BBC models said - 2081 for some unknown reason). So yours missed the last two trickles.

Are you sure that these auto backups presumably done with boinc and workunit running are really reliably restorable? When you restored the backup, did the model crunch at all? Surely it should have crunched for a little while, even a few minutes, until the negative value was created again. If the restored backup showed 100% complete immediately and without crunching, I wonder whether there was something wrong with the backup. Or was your auto backup scheduled to run after the model had already crashed?

If you are backing up frequently and saving at least the 2 most recent backup copies, what about trying to restore the previous backup of this model?

Some incomplete models are generating Over - Success - Done when they really shouldn\'t, but this is a separate issue.

Your computers are hidden, so we can not look at the model to see if it did indeed finish.

Hello andrew.kingwell and thanks for joining the team. That\'s an awful lot of data you\'ve provided for the project scientists! 8D

Whose post counts most?

Ah, the counter argument! :)

Ian, I have abused nobody and nor have I been unpleasant.

Not only do my boxes run continuously, they were built specifically to support this project. \'With malice aforethought\', eh?

It surely can\'t hurt to spell things out clearly, especially as there are probably loads of people crunching away in splendid isolation, and only occasionally dip into the forums etc, if ever. I think the whole issue has been well and truely discussed now in this thread, and I think on the whole we are all singing from the same hymn sheet.