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Yes, it is actually possible to run Tablix on Windows XP!

The binary in the screenshot was compiled with GCC under Cygwin, but once it is built does not require a Cygwin installation.

You have to make some moderate changes to the Tablix source before it will compile cleanly on Windows. (Some of the changes are documented in the Wiki). Autotools (automake, autoconf, libtool, ...) fail spectacularly on Cygwin so also a new set of Makefiles is required.

PVM is horribly broken on Microsoft's systems, so Windows machines can't be a part of the cluster. After some testing it turned out that Tablix can solve problems of moderate size quite efficiently even in debug mode (i. e. genetic algorithm with a single population without using PVM), but you have to do some tweaking of the genetic algorithm parameters.