ANNOUNCE: Drone 1.0 batch simulation tool

[Theodore C. Belding]

Drone is a tool for automatically running batch jobs of a simulation
program. It allows sweeps over arbitrary sets of parameters, as well as
multiple runs for each parameter set, with a separate random seed for
each run.  The runs may be executed either on a single computer or over
the Internet on a set of remote hosts.  Drone is written in Expect (an
extension to the Tcl scripting language) and runs under Unix.  It was
originally designed for use with the Swarm agent-based simulation
framework, but Drone can be used with any simulation program that reads
parameters from the command line or from an input file.  This is free 
software; you can redistribute and modify it under the terms of the 
GNU General Public License. 

The Drone 1.0 distribution is available on the Web, along with more 
information, at:
<http://pscs.physics.lsa.umich.edu/Software/Drone/>

Expect is available at:
<http://expect.nist.gov/>

You can get information on Swarm at:
<http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/>
-- 
Ted Belding                      <mailto:address@hidden>
University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems
<http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~streak/>