I am just curious. Has a SUN platform ever been tried on AG? Al Kraft
> Both platforms have globus, Windows and Linux. How else would a > personal node work? :) > Chris is right, all combinations work. Python and C are cross-platform > languages. In theory even Mac OS-X would work too, using the unix AG source. > > Derek > > Natalia Costas Lago wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Do people involved in Grid projects agree with that?. Does Win globus > > support have the same functionality as Linux one? I think I recalled that > > some months ago I realised that there werent the same globus files in > > windows than in Linux, and I asked our system guys and they said that there > > was no globus for windows... > > > > Regards, > > Natalia. > > > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Osland, CD (Chris)" > >> <c.d.osl...@rl.ac.uk> > >> To: "AG-TECH list" <ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov> > >> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 10:49 AM > >> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] multinode? > >> > >> > >>> I totally agree; all-Windows, all-Linux, mixed: all work. I don't > >>> know the status of AG on Macs these days because we don't use them. > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> > >>> Chris > >>> > >>> ____________________________________________________________________ > >>> Chris Osland Office > >>> tel: +44 > >>> (0) 1235 446565 > >>> Digital Media and Access Grid Medialab tel: > >>> +44 (0) > >>> 1235 446459 > >>> BIT Department Access Grid room > >>> tel: +44 > >>> (0) 1235 445666 > >>> e-mail: c.d.osl...@rl.ac.uk > >>> Fax: +44 > >>> (0) 1235 445597 > >>> CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Bldg. R18) > >>> Chilton, DIDCOT, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK > >>> [The contents of this email are confidential and are for the use of the > >>> intended recipient only. > >>> If you are not the intended recipient do not take any action on it or > >>> show > >>> it to anyone else, > >>> but return this email to the sender and delete your copy of it.] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov]On > >>>> Behalf Of Christoph Willing > >>>> Sent: 19 November 2004 03:43 > >>>> To: Natalia Costas Lago > >>>> Cc: AG-TECH list > >>>> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] multinode? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 19/11/2004, at 3:48 AM, Natalia Costas Lago wrote: > >>>> > > >>>> > mmm... r u sure? I thought the reason of the linux nodes was the > >>>> > possibility of accessing the grid by means of globus. > >>>> > Am I wrong?? > >>>> > > >>>> > >>>> The globus stuff exists in the Windows version of the AG2 toolkit too. > >>>> > >>>> While the answers below to the original question are strictly correct, > >>>> one can also ask/respond: > >>>> > >>>> Can a multisystem node use linux as all three computers? > >>>> yes > >>>> What is the purpose of windows .... do I need it? > >>>> no > >>>> > >>>> > > Can a multisystem node use winXP as all three computers? > >>>> > > >>>> > yes > >>>> > > >>>> > > What is the purpose of the linux .... do I need it? > >>>> > > >>>> > no > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Christoph Willing Ph: +61 7 3365 8350 > >>>> QPSF Access Grid Manager > >>>> University of Queensland > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Derek Piper - dcpi...@indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111 > IRI 323, School of Informatics > Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana >
