[Gate-users] Gate on a condor cluster

[David Roberts]

Hello,

I'm setting up Gate to work on our condor cluster and wanted to check
which is the best way (or only way) to implement this.  At present our
BEAMnrc/EGSnrc simulations are submitted to our condor cluster using the
vanilla universe. All executables, libraries, data files etc. are
transferred to the remote computers by condor.  Therefore the remote
computers DO NOT need BEAMnrc/EGSnrc installed or require access to any
shared drives.  This enables additional computers to be added easily.

Questions:

1. Is the above possible with Gate?  Looking at the cluster tools, all
this seems to do is split the simulation up and provide different random
seeds.

2. If not.  Does Gate therefore have to be installed on each remote
computer?

3. If some of the remote computers are the same (same architecture, same
OS) could I just do an NFS share to the geant4/gate install directories?
 This might not be ideal if the I/O between remote computers is high
during the simulations (note that half of our cluster is physically
separated from the other and therefore communicate over the
college/hospital network)

Many Thanks
Dave

David Roberts

Radiotherapy PhD Student
Joint Physics Department
Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Trust
Downs Road,
Sutton, Surrey
UK, SM2 5PT
Tel : 020 8661 3490


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