Re: parallel Swarm

[Russell Standish]

My papers are gzipped on my website, but possibly your web browser
unzipped them, but still left the .gz extension on it. I've heard that
some Windows browsers do that, but have never seen it happen with my
own eyes. I don't intend to break a web standard just because some
popular piece of software does :)


I was at ALife VII - I presented some stuff on Mark Bedau's
evolutionary statistics, and some complexity measurements of Tierra.

I certainly hope to have something published at ALife VIII - depends
if I can complete the necessary research for the May 6th deadline. I
also hope to run a workshop on using High Performance Computing for
Agent Based Simulations, and get some of my group's stuff into
that. This may be of interest to you too... Parallel Swarm is a very
pertinant topic.

                                        Cheers

Marshall, James A R wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> ---
> 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 You may be interested in an unpublished paper of mine "Complex Systems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
> > 
> > ---
> > 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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