Re: Cygnus, drone, etc... (was Re: drone and windows NT. Any success stories?

[Catherine Dibble]

Actually... you don't need Drone at all under Cygnus or
under Linux/Unix.  A simple Unix shell script works fine
in either environment.  It runs my GUI jobs and logs my
text and *.png files just fine.  I've done hundreds of
runs this way so far -- sometimes for days at a time.

Another advantage is that the parameter sweeps can be
set arbitrarily, i.e. do x for 5 10 25 100
in order to do 4 runs using x at 5 10 25 and 100 respectively.
Obviously, the loops can also be nested arbitrarily deep -
all you need is the CPU time to do the runs.  :)

I'm in transit to the east coast at the moment, but will
post the shell script soon if anyone is interested.

Catherine Dibble
address@hidden
http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~cath

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