[Gate-users] Re : GATE on Windows XP

[Chris Reynolds]

There may be some additional value in porting GATE via cygwin; namely
that "embarrassingly parallel/coarse grained" simulations can be pushed
out over a desktop grid, for example via BOINC where worker clients tend
to be windows machines.

At the University of Westminster we're interested in supporting such
applications across our desktop grid comprising 1600 windows machines
(we already have some experience of "desktop gridifying" biomedical
applications). 

We could make a concerted effort to port GATE to windows providing there
is interest from researchers in using the application in this way?


On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 06:54 +0000, Samuel BURG wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> The easiest way to run GATE in Windows is to install ... linux ...
> What I want to say is that you should consider installing QEMU /
> VirtualBox / VMware or an other vitualisation software, then create a
> linux virtual machine, install a Linux OS (you should use Ubuntu 8.4
> +, x86) and then install GATE.
> 
> This work if you have at least 1GB Ram, so in fact any recent (or even
> not so recent) computer.
> The perormace lost is about ... 1-5% ... not so much, an realy less
> than cigwin or thinks like that.
>  
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Samuel Burg
> 
> Mail : <samuel_burg at yahoo.fr>
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> Apparently everyone. 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> De : Nicholas Forwood <nforwood at stvincents.com.au>
> À : gate-users at lists.healthgrid.org
> Envoyé le : Lundi, 6 Juillet 2009, 8h04mn 06s
> Objet : [Gate-users] GATE on Windows XP
> 
> I noticed in the users survey that 8% of users are on Windows XP. Is
> anyone on
> this list able to say concretely which steps they followed to get GATE
> working on
> Windows XP?
> 
> Thus far I have successfully setup GEANT4 9.1.p03 through CYGWIN and
> Visual c++
> (as per the instructions on the GEANT4 website) but I am having
> trouble compiling
> GATE. I have tried without and without ROOT and LMF installed but I
> still get
> compile errors relating to a variable "M_PI" and a function "stricmp"
> or something
> like that. Since it is improbable that the authors of this software
> made the
> simple error of not declaring something and I alone have spotted it,
> it would seem
> that I have done something more fundamentally wrong. 
> 
> If someone has had a positive experience of using GATE on Window XP it
> would be
> great if you could share it.
> 
> Thankyou
> 
> Nicholas Forwood
> 
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