Accelerator can dispatch jobs to taskers
running on Windows hosts. Starting the taskers on Windows hosts,
however, is less automated than on UNIX hosts.
To prepare the Windows host:
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Mount the filesystem with the Accelerator installation on
the Windows machine in the form of a drive letter. For example, assume that the
installation is mounted as
f:\rtda\<version>. Enter the
location depending on your network setup.
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Start a Windows
cmd shell . Initialize it by executing the
vovinit.bat script that is in the installation
directory under win64/bat.
For the example,
use:
% f:\rtda\<version>\win64\bat\vovinit.bat
The
vovinit.bat file adds the Altair Accelerator commands to the PATH and sets other environment variables used by the
software.
You may consider adding the following shortcut to your
desktop to facilitate this operation in the
future:
cmd /k f:\rtda\<version>\win64\bat\vovinit.bat
Refer to the Windows documentation to learn how you can add a shortcut to
the desktop.
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Start the Tasker Server Daemon with:
% vovtsd -user vncadmin
where vncadmin should be replaced by the login name of the
Accelerator administrator who is running the Accelerator
vovserver.
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Mount all other drives required to perform the tasks.
Basically, the Windows host must be capable of performing the tasks that are
about to be dispatched by the Accelerator
vovserver. This means that the filesystem
with the run directory must be mounted at a drive letter, since you may not
change directory to a UNC path.