Chris Cason wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> I don't understand what you mean. Access is all by batch, a gui on that 
>> machine is out of the question.
> 
> if you mean 'gui' as in 'interactive access', yes I understand that -
> however there must be a staging system where cross-compilation or otherwise
> preparation of binaries are done. specifically, the ability to be able to
> run tests (even if by batch) and recompile the binary to see where
> optimizations may be made would be handy - though of course there is the
> issue that probably installation of such binary would have to be done by an
> admin (I presume).
> 
The system apparently runs linux and there is another much simpler 
system with 4 processors or so that is used for testing and compilation. 
If it all works you place the job in a batch and when enough resources 
become available the jub is run on the big machine. The good news is 
that my collague has enough time on the machine and good enough contacts 
with the sysadmins that compiling POV on that machine and running a 
benchmark may be possible. Especially if we can find a good enough 
explanation why it would be useful for our research. ;)

Post a reply to this message