[Swift-user] Using swift for PCs

[Altaweel, Mark R.]

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.

Mark 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Wilde [mailto:wilde at mcs.anl.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:42 PM
To: Ian Foster
Cc: Altaweel, Mark R.; 'swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu'
Subject: Re: [Swift-user] Using swift for PCs

Right, in our discussion yesterday we went through all the systems available, and Mark and Jonathan too have Linus systems and clusters.

They are just sanity testing how Swift runs on Windows because they have a large Windows user community.

- Mike




On 10/1/09 1:30 PM, Ian Foster wrote:
> One option is that we can set them up to log in to a Linux server and 
> run from there?
> 
> 
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Altaweel, Mark R. wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I just started trying to use swift, and we are investigating to see 
>> if swift can be useful for our applications. Our users apply windows, 
>> mac, and linux/unix environments for their work, so we need to have 
>> swift work on all three platforms. I got it to run on the mac and 
>> linux side of things, but I am having a little trouble running it on 
>> windows.
>>  
>> First, I am trying to run swift-0.9 through cygwin. I followed the 
>> install instructions for swift and when I tried to run any of the 
>> demos (e.g., first.swift) I get this error:
>>  
>> SWIFT_HOME is not set, and all attempts at guessing it failed.
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>>  
>> However, I did set SWIFT_HOME in the System. I am not sure what the 
>> problem is. Any hints would be appreciated.
>>  
>> Thanks.
>>  
>> Mark
>>  
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