Repeating Simulations: Drone or what?

[Paul Johnson]

I'm just for the past few months very interested in making simulations
repeat and I was excited to learn there is this thing called DRONE
discussed in Sven's and Rick's recent notes.

I know it is possible to rewrite a batchswarm to make simulations repeat
themselves (simpleExerBug) and a perl script can do it.  Drone is new to me, or
if I knew I had forgotten...

Here's what I wonder. In the swarm community, how are most people replicating
experiments?  Are there other approaches I've never heard of?

Should replication be part of swarm itself? At Swarmfest, Roger described
the possibility of writing swarm to allow a "reset", so simulations could be
restarted without quitting.  It seems a small step from that to a repetition.

It just seems to me that the ability to repeat an exeriment ought not be 
an "optional added extra" in the simulation package design. Rather, it
ought to be integral to it.

Now some shameless advertising! I prepared RPMs and SRPMs for libffi, 
BLT (your choice: version 2.4e or 8.0-unofficial!) and swarm 1.3. They
work on both of  my computers and I'm intersted to know if they work on yours.
I'm interested to know of anyone tries to rebuild the RPMS on SPARC or Alpha
versions of Redhat too.  

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm


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Dept. of Political Science           http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
University of Kansas                 Office: (913) 864-9086
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