I have a job that is nearly complete - it will be close to 1000 hours when it is finished and at the moment is just over 900 hours of job tgime completed with about 126 hours to run left. The deadline for this job to finish is in 2 days on the 22nd of May.

I would like to request an extension so that the job can finish. I know that on other jobs people have requested extensions and the tasks have been able to change the dates that the jobs were due on.

had3cn_zh8j_1880_40_008248187_2 is the specific task ID that I am referring to and my machine ID is 1223920 for the project.

I would hate to lose all this time just because I went over the deadline by just a few hours when its possible that you can change the task deadline for me.

Thank you.

Hi. This project doesn't actually use deadlines (BOINC just requires one) so you should be good to go.

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OK, thankyou then...I as concerned since the deadline is fast approaching that the project would abort and its so close to finishing and all of those hours would be down the drain...

I've started so many tasks for this project and had many of them lost for one reason or another without being able to complete and this one is so close and I'd really like to finish this one successfully!

There will be an ugly message from boinc but please ignore it. As KactionJ mentioned, CPDN doesn't play that game. Your task won't be terminated, you'll get full credit upon completion, and the results will be included in the data base.

Thanks for hanging-in there.

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Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest.

I"m a native of Washington State currently transplanted to the Buckeye state...I hope you are taking good care of my mountains, evergreen trees, the Columbia and Snake River Regions and Puget Sound, the rain forest and the ocean for me...I miss it all! (born in Walla Walla but lived most of my adult life in Vancouver, WA) Its the seeing Mountains on a daily basis that I miss the most...its so darn flat here and the stuff they ski on and call mountaines out here - well my late former father in law used to run John Deere Farm equipment on hills steeper than what they ski on out here back in the Walla Walla Valley.

Take good care of my home state for me!

Tonight as this job reached 1031 hours task time completed, a computation error occured and the job ended. The following shows up in my event log:

5/25/2013 8:40:47 PM | climateprediction.net | Task hadcm3n_zh8j_1880_40_008248187_2 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
5/25/2013 8:40:47 PM | climateprediction.net | If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
5/25/2013 8:40:47 PM | climateprediction.net | Restarting task hadcm3n_zh8j_1880_40_008248187_2 using hadcm3n version 607 in slot 6
5/25/2013 8:44:29 PM | climateprediction.net | Computation for task hadcm3n_zh8j_1880_40_008248187_2 finished
5/25/2013 8:44:29 PM | climateprediction.net | Output file hadcm3n_zh8j_1880_40_008248187_2_4.zip for task hadcm3n_zh8j_1880_40_008248187_2 absent
5/25/2013 8:45:44 PM | climateprediction.net | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
5/25/2013 8:45:44 PM | climateprediction.net | Reporting 1 completed tasks
5/25/2013 8:45:44 PM | climateprediction.net | Not requesting tasks: project is not highest priority
5/25/2013 8:45:47 PM | climateprediction.net | Scheduler request completed

The job obviously is over and done with. Will I get credit for 1031 hours of work done on this task? or have all those hours been lost because of the computation error? Needless to say, I'm quite frustrated at the "output file absent" explanation for why this task ended in an error especially after 1031 hours of computing time.

This project grants credit based on the trickle_up files that are regularly sent back to the project. The credits are yours until you spend them. And if you DO find a way to spend them, a few million other crunchers would like to know how. :)

The "output file absent" explanation isn't.
When the data set was originally sent to you, part of it told BOINC what files to expect, and what to do with them. Also included was information about what files BOINC should expect the model to create, and what to do with those.
So that message is BOINC saying "Hey! I was told to expect file xxxx. But the WU has finished and I can't find this file!!!"

As to WHY the model failed, that info is in the Stderr list on the web page for that model. (The list is collapsed by default to save space. Click on the + to expand the list.)

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