Re: [Swarm-Support] Proposal: Parallel Parameter Sweeps on Grids

[Ed Baskerville]

Hi again,

I just received word that Google has accepted my Summer of Code  
application for GridSweeper--thanks much to those of you that gave me  
feedback on the outline.

For those of you that are interested, I'll be tracking the project's  
development on a blog, bug-tracker, and Subversion repository hosted  
here:

http://code.edbaskerville.com/

--Ed

On Apr 25, 2006, at 2:05 AM, Ed Baskerville wrote:

> 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