[mpich-discuss] Heterogeneous cluster support?

[Pavan Balaji]

Yes, it's possible and used by many folks. You'll need to use the smpd 
process manager for this; you can configure using:

  $ ./configure --with-pm=smpd --with-pmi=smpd

  -- Pavan

Lubomir Radev wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm wondering whether that's at all possible with MPICH2. By "heterogeneous" I mean not different architectures, but different operating systems. In particular, what I need to do is build a system with GUI-enabled master process running under Windows which spawns childs on a number of Linux boxes for number crunching. 
> 
> Thanks

-- 
Pavan Balaji
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