My approach is much more complex:

Shell scripts and rsh.

Sean


On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Maciej M. Latek wrote:

> Glen,
>
> That is very interesting issue you raise. I understand you are  
> interested in fine-grained distributed memory applications: I have  
> experimented recently with Proactive.  While learning curve might  
> be steep (which is not helped by rather unresponsive mailing list  
> for Proactive), after you work out initial problems with deployment  
> it is great fun to work with. The only draw back is that after you  
> transform your agents into Proactive ActiveObjects and create  
> environment based on Proactive Domains, there is no Mason left  
> (Proactive takes care of scheduling). It is possible to have large  
> scale simulation deployed to cluster based on Proactive and small  
> scale desktop Mason one that share 90% of code, in particular you  
> won't have to change neither your agent code or environment code,  
> just things that deal with instantiation and visualization.
>
> Proactive comes bundled with tool called IC2D (Interactive Control  
> and Debugging of Distribution), which is great help when you want  
> to monitor or improve performance of your simulation.  I have heard  
> good things about Network Attached Memory solutions like  
> Terracotta, but have not yet tried them out: they look interesting  
> though. Check out proceedings of last AGENT conference, there are  
> some papers that talk about those issues..
>
> What scale of simulation are we talking about that a decent 8 core  
> desktop with plenty of RAM is not enough?
>
> Regards
>
> Maciek
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2007 7:59 PM, Glen E. P. Ropella < [log in to unmask]>  
> 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
> loose collections of networked machines.
>
> - --
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