From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Wed Mar 1 10:40:32 2000 Received: from wirehead.arqule.com (email.arqule.com [12.27.160.89]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA04518 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:40:32 -0500 Received: by WIREHEAD with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:35:37 -0500 Message-ID: <6B00FB949906D211A88800104B8AE5200183D473@WIREHEAD> From: "Czerminski, Ryszard" To: "'Gary Strahan'" , Bhupendra Wakankar , CCL_posting Subject: RE: NT parallel cluster Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:35:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" And if you need to use NT functionality you might want to install VMWARE on top of linux (http://www.vmware.com) and NT on top of vmware. Then you can: (1) use all 6 PC as a linux cluster (2) use NT functionality without rebooting while all your heavy-duty-parallel-number-crunching is running happily in the background. (3) kill virtual machine when you are done with your NT task in order to have more CPU for number crunching R Ryszard Czerminski phone: (781)994-0479 ArQule, Inc. email:ryszard@arqule.com 19 Presidential Way http://www.arqule.com Woburn, MA 01801 fax: (781)994-0679 -----Original Message----- From: Gary Strahan [mailto:strahan@outerbanks.umaryland.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 9:55 AM To: Bhupendra Wakankar; CCL_posting Subject: CCL:NT parallel cluster Another option: You should be able to reboot your NT machines using a Linux boot-floppy, and then run calculations on them as part of a Linux cluster. Bhupendra Wakankar wrote: > Subject: CCL:NT parallel cluster > Dear CCLers, > Hi. > > We have 6 computers in our lab (4 running on WINNT and 2 on RedHat 6.0). > I use the Linux PC's for my computations while the 4 NT PC's stay > relatively idle. All these PC's are fairly powerful (> 400MHz > multiprocessor Pentiums) and thus have untapped number crunching power. > I am wondering if it is possible to build a parallel cluster using these > 4 NT PC's (and better still, using all 6 PC's). > > Almost all network of PC clusters that I read about on the web run under > Linux. Is there any particular reason for not choosing NT (lack of > parallel programs perhaps ?). > > I would also like to know if there are any DFT programs (parallel/single > processor, free/commercial) running on Windows NT? > > Thanks in advance, > > Regards, > Bhupendra > > CHEMISTRY@ccl.net -- To Everybody | CHEMISTRY-REQUEST@ccl.net -- To Admins > CHEMISTRY-SEARCH@ccl.net -- archive search | Gopher: gopher.ccl.net 70 > Ftp: ftp.ccl.net | WWW: http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/ | Jan: jkl@ccl.net > > > > >-- End of excerpt from Bhupendra Wakankar -= This is automatically added to each message by mailing script =- CHEMISTRY@ccl.net -- To Everybody | CHEMISTRY-REQUEST@ccl.net -- To Admins MAILSERV@ccl.net -- HELP CHEMISTRY or HELP SEARCH CHEMISTRY-SEARCH@ccl.net -- archive search | Gopher: gopher.ccl.net 70 Ftp: ftp.ccl.net | WWW: http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/ | Jan: jkl@ccl.net