Hello Sean,



Sean Luke wrote:

> I *thought* that "easily" might not be the right term.  :-) :-)

Indeed :-)



> So, long story short, you *could* do a distributed thing in MASON (I

> might look at JavaSpaces rather than MPI),

Thanks for the tip, I will look at that.

>

> Here's the SMD support MASON has right now:

>     - MASON's model core is self-contained.  This means you can run

> simultaneous, independent MASON simulations in parallel in separate

> threads on the same process.  We do that a lot.

>     - MASON's model serializability allows us to build a model on one

> processor, then ship it to a remote machine to be processed, then ship

> it back.

>     - MASON has synchronous multithreaded agents: a Steppable can

> subdivide itself into several Steppables, running each in parallel,

> then gathering them at the end.  See ParallelSequence.

>     - MASON has asynchronous agents: A Steppable can be fired off to

> work independently of the Schedule, and be gathered at a later time

> (or not at all).  See AsynchronousSteppable.

Thanks for the overview. I may not even need model parallelism, but

somehow I'm fascinated

with the concept ;-)



Best Regards,

Günther