Dear Glen,

I've been working on distributed simulation of agent-based systems for 
some time.
If you're interested in the general issues (not specifically MASON, Grid 
etc) there is plenty of literature, I can pass you some if you are.

I should point out that cluster and grid computing are quite different 
and have different benefits and drawbacks.

If you're interested in the latter then I have actually developed a 
bacteria simulation using MASON which uses HLA and Globus(Grid) to run 
in both WAN and LAN environments. If you're interested you can find out 
more here...

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~bsl/papers/Lees++:07b.pdf
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~bsl/papers/Logan++:06a.pdf

If you have some specific/general questions I'd be happy to try and help

-Mike


Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
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> What toolchains do y'all use for parallelizing your MASON simulations?
> Note that I'm not talking about multi-processor machines but clusters or
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