[Gate-users] VMware virtual machine

[Marc Verderi]

Hello,

Please find below some information from Sebastien Incerti (G4 member, 
head of lowEM package, and familiar with VMWare).

Cheers,
Marc

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Dear Marc,

In order to use of 2 processor machines with VMware :

-make sure to use VMware player 2.5
-edit the *.vmx file with a text editor
-add the option :
numvcpus="2"
-look at the VMware forums...

could you forward this to your GATE user ?

thanks
seb

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Alan Green a écrit :
> I am running Gate on the VMware Player version (Scientific Linux) of
> Geant4 on an XP PC with two dual core processors. I have tried running
> one or two simultaneous Gate simulations; whatever I do the XP Task
> Manager reports ~25% CPU usage; allowing for setup overhead the two
> processes take about twice the time the single process takes. Has anyone
> managed to get the VMware version to run faster with multiple
> processors?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Alan
>
> Dr Alan J Green
> Senior Lecturer
> UCL Cancer Institute
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