I just started using Climateprediction.net on my BOINC application on my MacBook and was wondering when my tasks for climateprediction.net finish, how do I archive and delete the CPDN files so if they are ever needed, I have them. Thanks in advance, I have not been able to find this anywhere. If it makes any difference, I an using Leopard (10.5.7) on a MacBook, with a 2.4 GHz processor and 2.5 GB of HD space that BOINC is allowed to use.

Hi Shelby. Welcome to the project.

Only the original type of model, known as a "slab ocean" type, don't clean up after themselves.
And ALL types when they fail before finishing.

To delete these, you need to look in the manager (gui), and make a note of the models currently running.
Then look under .....\projects\climateprediction.net\ for folder names that look similar, but which are different. (The old, failed models.)
Delete these folders.

As for saving a copy at any time, this is linked in my sig below, under backups.
Note that all of this applies to Windows, as I know next to nothing about Macs.

Climate models differ from the work units of other projects (except QCN), in that data is returned regularly, at fixed points in the models, and that it's also these "trickles" as they're called that are used to grant credit.
There are several types of trickle; some just indicate to the server that the model is still alive at that point in time, and others also contain climate data. (It depends on the model type.)

Some of the models (e.g. 'slabs' & 'Coupled Ocean') return a zip file at intervals during the processing, others only return a zip (or several) at the end of the model.
The hadam3ps that you're running are the latter; 3 zips at the end.
(Approx size: 50 Mb, 35 Mb, & 530Kb)

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Backups: Here

Hi Shelby. Welcome to the project.

Only the original type of model, known as a "slab ocean" type, don't clean up after themselves.
And ALL types when they fail before finishing.

To delete these, you need to look in the manager (gui), and make a note of the models currently running.
Then look under .....projectsclimateprediction.net for folder names that look similar, but which are different. (The old, failed models.)
Delete these folders.

As for saving a copy at any time, this is linked in my sig below, under backups.
Note that all of this applies to Windows, as I know next to nothing about Macs.

Climate models differ from the work units of other projects (except QCN), in that data is returned regularly, at fixed points in the models, and that it's also these "trickles" as they're called that are used to grant credit.
There are several types of trickle; some just indicate to the server that the model is still alive at that point in time, and others also contain climate data. (It depends on the model type.)

Some of the models (e.g. 'slabs' & 'Coupled Ocean') return a zip file at intervals during the processing, others only return a zip (or several) at the end of the model.
The hadam3ps that you're running are the latter; 3 zips at the end.
(Approx size: 50 Mb, 35 Mb, & 530Kb)

Thank you, but that does not seem to apply to the Mac. when you say all projects except the original slap ocean projects clean up after themselves, are you saying that they delete the data once they are done, or what? Thanks!

... are you saying that they delete the data once they are done ...

Yes.
There's nothing left to save.

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Backups: Here