Re: Multithreading question

[Matteo Morini]

Dear Greg,

you bet I'll be in ND, especially now I know about the terrific keynote 
speech you've arranged!!!
I'd like very much to say something about multithreading Swarm models 
(multitasking, to say the truth, since I've experimented only with 
fork(), not clone() till now).

I had in mind to talk about how Project Penelope has progressed, its 
core model going more and more generic and able to work on weaving mills 
besides spinning mills, about Gigi Ferraris' new GA implementation 
(Golem) which I've promptly adopted and a few news about Swarm-based 
Supply Chains Management.

But... after all the developement of the project sooner or later will 
head towards parallelizing the model and going multi-something 
(multiprocessor pcs? cluster of pcs?) processing (it's all in my head 
only by now), so I might also say a little something about my works in 
progress in parallel Swarm coding, also keeping in mind the many 
suggestions that appeared in this thread (thanks a lot Marcus for your 
idea of a client/server architecture processing individuals in big 
batches, I really hadn't an idea of the costs of communicating over a 
network in terms of time wasted).

---Matteo

Gregory R Madey wrote:

> Matteo,
>
> Any chance we will see you in Notre Dame this spring?
>
> I've arranged for John Holland to be the keynote speaker!
>
> http://www.nd.edu/~swarm03/
>
> Would you be interested in giving a talk on multi-theading Swarm
> simulations?
>
> Grg
>
>  

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