Hi Ray, While I can comment directly on the Windows Compute Cluster OS, I personally have run mpiBLAST on a heterogenous windows 2000/XP/2003 domain. The biggest problem I encountered in that environment is that windows inexplicably kills all mpich jobs whenever a user logs on or off of one the compute nodes (which are actually just a set of workstations at my former lab). Since we added the ability to resume a crashed or killed mpiblast run, we workaround the problem by running the same mpiblast job repeatedly until it has finished. I have never used MS MPI or the compute cluster OS, so can't comment on whether the same problem crops up. I'm sure there must be some windows API call that would prevent this nasty behavior, but googling and searching the API docs for a few hours didn't turn anything up before I lost patience.
The windows mpiblast 1.4.0 is linked against mpich2, so one would have to recompile with the MS MPI libraries in order to use it instead. Anybody else ever try mpiblast on windows? -Aaron Ray Muirhead wrote: > Hi there, > > May I ask if anyone has experience with running mpiBLAST on Microsoft > Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, either with the MS MPI > implementation or MPICH2? Are there any potential problems that might > occur with such a configuration? > > Thank you for your time. > > Kind Regards, > Ray Muirhead > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Mpiblast-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mpiblast-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mpiblast-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mpiblast-users
