On Sep 28, 2006, at 6:20 AM, Günther Greindl wrote:



> One more thing: what I certainly intend to do is distribute the  

> simulation

> in a second step (long term goal); if I use cognitive agents, there  

> will be no

> other way to do simulation sensibly - does MASON lend itself easily  

> to this?



MASON, like RePast and Swarm, was designed as a single-process  

simulation toolkit.  We use MASON primarily in a parallel experiment  

context -- running hundreds of parallel MASON runs on a back-end  

server for optimization.  MASON does not have built-in support for  

distribution of a single experiment over multiple processors with  

message-passing or whatnot.  It *does* have built-in support for SIMD  

multiprocessing, that is, multiple threads in shared memory spread  

over multiple processors.  The relevant items are the  

AsynchronousSteppable and ParallelSequence objects.





> I know that you can add distributed support to Repast Models quite  

> easily.



Gunther, could you elaborate on this?



Sean