[Swift-user] Using swift for PCs

[Ioan Raicu]

Hi,
I just played with the new virtualization tool called VirtualBox, made 
by Sun.
http://www.virtualbox.org/

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.

Just another idea to try out.

Ioan

Glen Hocky wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <mailto: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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