Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Something Glen said

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Another direction, more for the SDG, is to simply demonstrate 
> techniques for ABM using other up and coming tools.  For example, IBM 
> has a new auto-parallelizing Java-like language in development called 
> X10 that is in many ways like the Swarm feature set.
>
> http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/x10.index.html 
Btw, there is considerable funding for this project (announced today): 

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1115743.html
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1115742.html

Cray has a similar language in development called Chapel, but it has 
fewer direct similarities to Swarm.
Incidentally, check out this new massively multithreaded system from Cray:

http://www.cray.com/downloads/Cray_XMT_Datasheet.pdf

"purpose-built for parallel applications that are dynamically changing, 
require random access to shared memory"
Kind of sounds like they built it for ABM, eh?  :-)