I've run MASON on a number of different combos. I've found it runs slowest
on a Mac, and the fastest I've had is on a machine with Ubuntu and Java 6
(had to override the crappy linux version of Java). I don't know if it was
significantly faster than Windows, and obviously it depends on the machine.
Hope that helps.

-Paul

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Paul Smaldino, M.A.
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis



On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Matthew Berryman <
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> Hi,
>
> Anyone with any experience running large simulations using MASON on
> different OS/JVM combinations?
> My gut instinct tells me an X-less Linux box running a recent Sun JVM would
> be my best bet for speed, but I'm an OS agnostic.
>
> To date the largest ABM I have helped build runs in Repast 3 (not my
> choice, I might add ;) and it's only possible to test it on Windows. There
> are Java benchmarks out there I know, but none that I can see based around
> (GUI-less) MASON ABMs.
>
> Regards,
> Dr Matthew Berryman
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