[Swift-user] Using swift for PCs

[Glen Hocky]

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.

Glen

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Altaweel, Mark R. <maltaweel at anl.gov> wrote:

> 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.
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ----------------------
> >>
> >> 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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