F@H & Cygwin
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alpha754293
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F@H & Cygwin
Has anybody here tried the Linux SMP client in cygwin?
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DanGe
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Re: F@H & Cygwin
Tried it once to configure the client, but not actually run it, out of curiosity to see what would happen. Cygwin wouldn't make much of a performance difference, though; it runs the FAH executable as any plain WIn32 executable, which would still use the same slower Windows libraries rather than the more optimized Linux ones.
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alpha754293
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Re: F@H & Cygwin
I'm just wondering if that might be a way to coax Windows into running the Linux a2 core.DanGe wrote:Tried it once to configure the client, but not actually run it, out of curiosity to see what would happen. Cygwin wouldn't make much of a performance difference, though; it runs the FAH executable as any plain WIn32 executable, which would still use the same slower Windows libraries rather than the more optimized Linux ones.
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DanGe
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Re: F@H & Cygwin
Perhaps you could somehow set up the Linux SMP client on WIndows and running via Cygwin. Though I highly doubt such a set up would work or be worth it though because Cygwin is pretty much a Linux emulator that probably would not be able to run highly optimized MPI libraries. Now I actually don't know what would happen since I'm not much of a Cygwin user, but those are my thoughts on what would happen.