[Swift-user] Using swift for PCs

[Glen Hocky]

I'm also a big fan of VirtualBox and one advantage of this would be that
VirtualBox runs great on all 3 platforms (i've tested) so you could have
everyone running the same virtual image, so configuration on all hosts would
be equivalent.

Glen

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Ioan Raicu <iraicu at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:

>  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>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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