Windows native executable on Linux?
I have a bit of experience in dealing with cross platform applications and emulators. I have a windows executable (a program we received as a "gift" from a mathematics professor, who later disappeared) and ssh access to a linux based supercomputing facility where I would like to run it to cut down our computing time (which right now is 3 days!). Are there any ideas I can use? WINE may not be able to serve the purpose since (1) I am not sure if my supercomputer account allows me to install software - perhaps it does or is already installed (2) WINE memory management will definitely fail on this job - it is fairly RAM intensive.
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You don’t have oodles of options here. Aside from WINE, you can run a virtualization environment, like Xen or VMWare. As long as you are trying to run a windows native executable on a Linux system, you’ll hit some kind of overhead.
You were only provided an executable, and not source? That’s pretty bad. At least you could try recompiling the source to take advantage of optimizations in a certain processor, like the SSE2+3 extensions. Or profile and rewrite critical sections of the code.