WINE and Parallel Processing

[tlillys]

Hi - new to this forum.

I have a design problem for a Simulation/Optimization software package that will run (hopefully) on a cluster of CentOS boxes. The idea is to have a master node run the Optimization process making decisions about what simulations to run, and available slave nodes would run the Simulation(s) of a physical process as directed by the master node; communications are handled via message passing interface (MPI). The goal is have everything run natively, however, a component of the Optimization software is not ready for Linux yet (we don't own it).

The temporary work around I had in mind was to run the Optimizer as a Windows console program using WINE and make calls to native processes on the slave nodes. So, my question is, is this work around even feasible?

TIA
Ted

[wodencafe]

You won't know until you try.