Re: parallel Swarm

[Russell Standish]

You may be interested in an unpublished paper of mine "Complex Systems
Research on Parallel Computers"
(http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/parcomplex or
http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/ps/parcomplex.ps.gz) 

I have been successful in parallelising an evolutionary ecology model
over a spatial grid
(http://life.csu.edu.au/complex/ci/vol6/standisha/standisha.html) 
however, the more general problem of parallelising distributed agents
has not been solved to my knowledge. My group is having a push at
doing this very thing this year, withing the Ecolab framework. We hope
to integrate the C++ code with the Swarm framework at the same time -
something like a parallel distributed heatbugs is being planned for
Alife VIII.

I would be very intested to hear of your experiences, or even
collaborating should it suit our mutual interests.

                                                Cheers

Marshall, James A R wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>   as part of my project I am likely to have to develop a version of our
> simulation for a parallel computer (a Fujitsu AP3000 with UltraSparc
> processors, with the MPI library for developing parallel programs). I intend
> to use Java and Swarm for developing the simulation, and would like to hear
> from people who have been succesful or otherwise with this kind of thing
> before I actually start implementation.
>       James
> 
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> James A R Marshall
> Container World Project -
> http://www.ese.ic.ac.uk/research/containerworld/index.htm
> Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College, London
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