Fw: [AG-TECH] multinode?

[Derek Piper]

	Both platforms have globus, Windows and Linux. How else would a 
personal node work? :)
	Chris is right, all combinations work. Python and C are cross-platform 
languages. In theory even Mac OS-X would work too, using the unix AG source.

	Derek

Natalia Costas Lago wrote:
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> Do people involved in Grid projects agree with that?. Does Win globus
> support have the same functionality as Linux one? I think I recalled that
> some months ago I realised that there werent the same globus files in
> windows than in Linux, and I asked our system guys and they said that there
> was no globus for windows...
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> Regards,
> Natalia.
> 
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Osland, CD (Chris)" 
>> <C.D.Osland at rl.ac.uk>
>> To: "AG-TECH list" <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 10:49 AM
>> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] multinode?
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>>> I totally agree; all-Windows, all-Linux, mixed: all work.  I don't
>>> know the status of AG on Macs these days because we don't use them.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Chris
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
>>>> Behalf Of Christoph Willing
>>>> Sent: 19 November 2004 03:43
>>>> To: Natalia Costas Lago
>>>> Cc: AG-TECH list
>>>> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] multinode?
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>>>> On 19/11/2004, at 3:48 AM, Natalia Costas Lago wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > mmm... r u sure? I thought the reason of the linux nodes was the
>>>> > possibility of accessing the grid by means of globus.
>>>> > Am I wrong??
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> The globus stuff exists in the Windows version of the AG2 toolkit too.
>>>>
>>>> While the answers below to the original question are strictly correct,
>>>> one can also ask/respond:
>>>>
>>>> Can a multisystem node use linux as all three computers?
>>>> yes
>>>> What is the purpose of windows .... do I need it?
>>>> no
>>>>
>>>> > >  Can a multisystem node use winXP as all three computers?
>>>> >
>>>> > yes
>>>> >
>>>> > > What is the purpose of the linux .... do I need it?
>>>> >
>>>> > no
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christoph Willing                        Ph: +61 7 3365 8350
>>>> QPSF Access Grid Manager
>>>> University of Queensland
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Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana