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F@H & Cygwin
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:15 am
by alpha754293
Has anybody here tried the Linux SMP client in cygwin?
Re: F@H & Cygwin
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:04 am
by DanGe
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.
Re: F@H & Cygwin
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:05 am
by alpha754293
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.
I'm just wondering if that might be a way to coax Windows into running the Linux a2 core.
Re: F@H & Cygwin
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:21 am
by DanGe
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.