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From: | Ed Baskerville |
Subject: | [Swarm-Support] Proposal: Parallel Parameter Sweeps on Grids |
Date: | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:05:53 -0700 |
Hello Swarmers,There has been talk before on this list about harnessing a network-- yes, a grid--of machines to do ABM parameter sweeps in parallel. (I even built something for Apple's Xgrid a couple years back, only to have them change the API just as I got distracted by other things.) After some discussions with Rick Riolo, I'm trying to get going on a general system for integrating ABM parameter sweeps with modern grid systems--not just Xgrid, but Sun Grid Engine, etc.
This effort is only going to get off the ground if I can pay my rent at the same time, so I'm planning to submit a proposal to Google as part of their Summer of Code, wherein they fund current or (as in my case) returning students to work on open-source software projects.
In order to put together the best proposal I can, and in order to jumpstart community involvement, I've posted a draft outline on my new software development blog in the hopes of getting feedback from you all:
http://code.edbaskerville.com/2006/04/25/gridsweeper-proposal/If you have any thoughts about this project, please leave them in the comments section on the blog post. I hope this will be useful to a lot of people.
Thanks in advance, Ed
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