[gmx-users] Gromacs on Windows

[Anton Feenstra]

David van der Spoel wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 12:33, Paul Barrett wrote:
> > (Sorry: cant find anything in the Archives on this obvious question.
> > Perhaps someone could point me in the right direction.)
> >
> > Whilst I use a LINUX machine, 15 of my colleagues run Windows XP.
> >
> > If I could execute mdrun on windows I could quadruple my processing
> > power by using their unused clock cycles. (If I can persuade them to let
> > me...!)
> >
> > Is there a straightforward way to do this?
> you can build gromacs under windows,

There is a (unsupported) windows distribution on www.gromacs.org
Download and install, and you're ready. You can generate .tpr files
anywhere, and feed them to mdrun on the MS-win machines.

> the only problem is that you will have to access their machines through
> the network.

You can enable the telnet client (called 'service' in NT or win2k), but 
be sure to shield outsider access! (telnet isn't particularly secure, and 
I would definitely not trust the MS implementation), so you might want 
e.g. a firewall to stop telnet access from outside your own network).


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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