The standard operating system on the cluster is Redhat linux. However, another operating system can be run on the cluster using virtual images. For example, It is possible to run windows OS and windows based application on Griffith HPC. The following HowTo will outline the steps involved. There are some limitations which will be mentioned at the end.

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Submit an interactive PBS job with -X option and Queue qweek_s.

e.g:

qsub -I -X X -q qweek_s -l l walltime=01100:00:00 -l select=1:ncpus=4:mem=12g:mpiprocs=4

There would be a wait time especially if enough resouces are not available. You will get a meesage like below when the job is successfull and would be taken to the compute time for the period of the walltime.

>>>>>>
qsub: job 4260247.pbsserver ready

########################### Execution Started #############################
JobId:4260247.pbsserver
UserName:s1234567
GroupName:1234567
ExecutionHost:n048
WorkingDir:/var/spool/PBS/mom_priv
###############################################################################


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On the execution node, please type:

module load virtualbox/win7

Creating the Virtual Machine

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