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Hi,<br>
I just played with the new virtualization tool called VirtualBox, made
by Sun. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">http://www.virtualbox.org/</a><br>
<br>
Its has similar functionality as VMWare, but its much lighter weight
(40MB install), its free, and works across Windows, Macs, and Linux
(running in user space, so there is no special requirements from the
underlying OS or even hardware). If Cygwin doesn't work out, why not
try setting up a minimal install of Linux with Swift pre-installed in
Virtual Box? I also think Virtual Box has some nice file sharing
features, so the Linux install can access data from Windows.<br>
<br>
Just another idea to try out.<br>
<br>
Ioan<br>
<br>
Glen Hocky wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:e71fa8ae0910011146m37ccc2f7uc248cfddf3a6f1eb@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I spent a few hours trying to get swift 0.9 to work in
Cygwin w/ Alex
Moore in David Biron's group. We were never successful, so it seems
some especially advanced configuration is necessary.<br>
<br>
Glen<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Altaweel,
Mark R. <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:maltaweel@anl.gov">maltaweel@anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yes,
that's exactly the case. We need to make sure that a variety of users
can run this, including those who simply want to run Repast on single
workstations with multiple processors/cores.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Mark<br>
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From: Michael Wilde [mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:wilde@mcs.anl.gov">wilde@mcs.anl.gov</a>]<br>
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:42 PM<br>
To: Ian Foster<br>
Cc: Altaweel, Mark R.; '<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:swift-user@ci.uchicago.edu">swift-user@ci.uchicago.edu</a>'<br>
Subject: Re: [Swift-user] Using swift for PCs<br>
<br>
Right, in our discussion yesterday we went through all the systems
available, and Mark and Jonathan too have Linus systems and clusters.<br>
<br>
They are just sanity testing how Swift runs on Windows because they
have a large Windows user community.<br>
<br>
- Mike<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 10/1/09 1:30 PM, Ian Foster wrote:<br>
> One option is that we can set them up to log in to a Linux server
and<br>
> run from there?<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Altaweel, Mark R. wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> I just started trying to use swift, and we are investigating
to see<br>
>> if swift can be useful for our applications. Our users apply
windows,<br>
>> mac, and linux/unix environments for their work, so we need to
have<br>
>> swift work on all three platforms. I got it to run on the mac
and<br>
>> linux side of things, but I am having a little trouble running
it on<br>
>> windows.<br>
>><br>
>> First, I am trying to run swift-0.9 through cygwin. I followed
the<br>
>> install instructions for swift and when I tried to run any of
the<br>
>> demos (e.g., first.swift) I get this error:<br>
>><br>
>> SWIFT_HOME is not set, and all attempts at guessing it failed.<br>
>>
---------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
>> ----------------------<br>
>><br>
>> However, I did set SWIFT_HOME in the System. I am not sure
what the<br>
>> problem is. Any hints would be appreciated.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks.<br>
>><br>
>> Mark<br>
>><br>
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