General Question about the 'Best' Platform for NONMEM
In reply to Gasparini's question:
>
> I know that some of you run NONMEM on UNIX and I would like to know more about
> your experience on installation on specific machines (Silicon Graphics, SUN,
> DEC-ULTIRX....). Are there things to consider before and during installation ?
> Our company tends to choose an HP, but this should not be a fixed choice.
I can only say that I am a satisfied HP-UX user. I have used an HP730
for 2 years and have just upgraded to an HP735/125 and HP-UX 9.05. Very
reliable and fast FORTRAN has made it a good machine for NONMEM. There
are a couple of small issues about the HP-UX+f77 that you might want to use
- e.g. to return an exit error code from NMTRAN you need the following
in CFILEX in the declaration section:
$ALIAS exit="exit" (%VAL)
and to flush the output buffer from ZXMIN1 in NONMEM put the following
in the declaration section:
INTEGER UNITID
EXTERNAL FFLUSH
and the following two lines after the line with the label 6011:
6011 FORMAT (' NUMSIGDIG:',10(8X,F4.1)/(11X,10(8X,F4.1)))
UNITID=FSTREAM(6)
CALL FFLUSH(%VAL(UNITID))
You may also wish to create a shared code library for most of the NONMEM
routines so that when you run multiple instances of NONMEM executables
there need be only one common copy of this code in memory. I can give
you details of doing that if you want.
Response/question from: (gelfring@intnet.upj.com) - 28 Nov 1994
I would be interested in finding out if anyone has done ant front-end work
with NONMEM in the IBM/CMS environment that makes the access to NONMEM
easier for inexperienced mainframe users.