Dr. Luke,

But does it allow for distributed memory computations? One instance of Mason
running on multiple nodes? With agents / objects possibly moving /
communicating from node to node?

Regards

Maciek

On Dec 6, 2007 9:23 PM, Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> My approach is much more complex:
>
> Shell scripts and rsh.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Maciej M. Latek wrote:
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> > 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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