From owner-nwchem-users@emsl.pnl.gov Fri Dec 17 22:03:50 2004 Received: from odyssey.emsl.pnl.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by odyssey.emsl.pnl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBI63oPg010341 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:03:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by odyssey.emsl.pnl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id iBI63oZt010340 for nwchem-users-outgoing; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:03:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:03:46 -0800 From: "Nieplocha, Jarek" Subject: Re: Running 1 nwchem job on multiple Mac OS X machines To: rkanters@richmond.edu Cc: nwchem-users@emsl.pnl.gov Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thread-Topic: Running 1 nwchem job on multiple Mac OS X machines Thread-Index: AcTkx1Yey1GuRYGLRSyGm4VD++HWwg== Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Dec 2004 06:03:47.0344 (UTC) FILETIME=[56766100:01C4E4C7] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by odyssey.emsl.pnl.gov id iBI63lPg010337 Sender: owner-nwchem-users@emsl.pnl.gov Precedence: bulk Rene, If you are interested in running NWChem distributed over a grid (wide-area distributed and heterogenous) environment, this is not supported and probably never will. However, you should be able to use a cluster of Mac machines providing that they have the same OS version installed, that you build and link nwchem with an appropriate version of MPI, and that your cluster allows standard tcp/ip socket based communication. Jarek (Sent from my wireless RIM Blackberry PDA)