[Gate-users] Running and validating GATE on a cluster

[Jan De Beenhouwer]

Hi,

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 20:38 +0200, Hannes Hofmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I successfully installed gate_3.1.1 on a compute cluster. After running
> the SPECT benchmark on a single node I was able to validate the spectra
> against the freshly released reference values.
> 
> However I am a bit lost with the validation of the output of
> benchmark_projections. Is there some tool I can use?
> 
> Then I wondered how to validate a cluster installation, because the file
> merger can only merge ROOT output, but the C programs use the ASCII
> files. At least I found out that benchSPECT.C computes all the values
> that benchmark_spectra computes and can be used for that part of the
> validation at least.
> 
> Btw: What is the future of file merger? Are there plans on supporting
> other output formats or will it be only ROOT in the short- and mid-term?
> 

Expect only ROOT support in the short- and mid-term, as there are
currently no plans to extend the functionality of the merger.

Regards,

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