A feature I would like to see on climateprediction.net at some point is the ability to tell CPDN when a workunit will never be resumed. I had some less stable machines at work that couldn\'t handle CPDN, plus I had a few problems with the client at home and had to reinstall the client.

That left a few CPDN workloads unfinished. CPDN shows several of those workloads as still \"In Progress\". In reality, only the job assigned to my account last night is actually running; the rest were aborted and/or lost. All other workloads could be reassigned to another CPDN member.

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I believe there is a setting that if a trickle is not received in a certain period of time, it does automatically expire the WU and pass it on to someone else. What I am unsure is what that length of time is. Something rings in my ear about 60 days, but I could be wrong.

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I\'m not sure about that, but eventually the CPDN load will expire if that\'s what you mean. It generally allows for about a year before they expire, and in fact, some of mine are coming up on that expiration date in just a couple months. Just seems like there ought to be a way to mark a workload as, \"you\'re never going to get another trickle report, so move along\". If there is a 60 day thing in there, maybe since the machine is still active, doing anothe workload, CPDN is confused as to the status of those other work units, originally assigned to the same machine.

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Because the Sulphur ones are no longer needed, so those do not need to be rescheduled.

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I read somewhere a couple of years ago, that if a model isn\'t heard of for 6 weeks, that it was marked for possible re-issue.
Which doesn\'t mean that YOU can\'t continue with it if you like. It just means, that if it IS re-issued, then there will be two people working on it.

The expiry date is set by the project. It was one year, but I\'ve read that it\'s now 18 months. This is when your \'lost\' models will get a change in status. So this only affects the appearance of your account.

Models that are Aborted will be marked for re-issue on receipt of this notification to the server, which is, in effect what you asked for as a feature.