hi,

we had the same problems initially with dual processors; that's why we've
settled on the Openmash version of vic (as well as for doing both transmit and
receive at the same time).

we haven't had any problems with the dual boot configuration, but then
we're not depending on the standard configuration of the virtual venues
software.

obviously, this is not a standard configuration according to the specs.
the virtual venues software is only partially "fooled" by renaming our
vic to what it expects; and we start up the second version of vic and
the rat manually.

i suppose we could make this more automated and transparent but it works
for us for now. besides, we keep experimenting with new configurations
so the configuration is a moving target. 

-gurcharan

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Gurcharan S. Khanna
Associate Director
Research Computing
Dartmouth College
gkhanna@dartmouth.edu
office: 603-646-1644
http://research.dartmouth.edu/
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gkhanna


--- "Nolan, Kevin [NCSUS]" wrote:
These are interesting Spec's.  In our research we found that a dual-boot
machine with Windows and Linux was bad - eventually the builds and drives
would fail.  In addition we have not gotten a single version of VIC to stay
functional for more then an hour with dual processors.  Have you worked
around this?  What version of VIC?  

-----Original Message-----
From: Gurcharan.S.Khanna@Dartmouth.EDU
[mailto:Gurcharan.S.Khanna@Dartmouth.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 3:05 AM
To: jcj@acl.lanl.gov; ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Single Machine Node


hi Josh,

you can view our current configuration of a single box windows AG Node at
http://research.dartmouth.edu/collab/accessgrid/.

while we have operated quite a few variations of this configuration, and we
continue to experiment with different elements of it, we have been very
stable with this particular configuration for many months now.

note: this box is dual bootable as a linux box but we default to windows
both for enabling native powerpoint and because it seemed to have better
display performance under windows.

fyi,

-gurcharan
===========================
Gurcharan S. Khanna
Associate Director
Research Computing
Dartmouth College
gkhanna@dartmouth.edu
office: 603-646-1644
http://research.dartmouth.edu/
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gkhanna

--- Joshua Jenks wrote:
I was wondering if anybody had any specs on a single machine AG node.  We
have a very rough setup now, but Cindy told me that someone was working on
specs or a tutorial for one.  Thanks for any help.

Josh




Joshua Jenks
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Undergraduate Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Advanced Computing Laboratory
CCS-1
jcj@lanl.gov
Purdue University
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
jenksjc@purdue.edu

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