RE: parallel Swarm

[Marshall, James A R]

Hi Russell,
  thanks for responding to me. I'll look at your paper with interest. By the
way I tried to unzip the postscript version of the paper with both WinZip
and gunzip, then realised that despite the .gz extension it is actually not
zipped but is an uncompressed PostScript file. Perhaps you should change
this?
  I'll also be having a look at your parallelised model. You intend to
publish something at ALife VIII... were you at ALifeVII? Perhaps we will be
able to have some form of exchange, although the implementation of our model
is only just beginning and a distributed version is some way off...
        James

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James A R Marshall
Container World Project - http://www.ese.ic.ac.uk/research/containerworld/
Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College, London
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7493
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-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Standish [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 19 March 2002 22:52
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: parallel Swarm


You may be interested in an unpublished paper of mine "Complex Systems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
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7493
> Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 7444
> 
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