Re: [Swarm-Modelling] ABMs on Graphical Processor Units

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Russell Standish wrote:
> I think the most useful outcome of this work would be a library of
> data structures and algorithms with a C language interface (with a JNI
> Java interface a relatively trivial proposition on top of that) that
> provides useful building blocks for ABMs. 
What blocks would be useful?

How about a library to manage agents and messages?   One might imagine 
objects being handed out by the library and all messages would be sent 
via remote procedure calls.  In this way, the logical model could be 
mapped to physical resources much as a queuing system load balances 
jobs.   In particular, messaging frequency could be used to migrate 
agents to nearby memory.  Since all the objects would be tracked, there 
would also be the possibility of using smart pointers / GC in the target 
language(s).

Marcus