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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: > > > 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: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > 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. > > > > - -- > > glen e. p. ropella, 971-219-3846, http://tempusdictum.com > > The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done. -- > > George W. > > Bush > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFHWJrpZeB+vOTnLkoRArGkAJ9EW+WG54QD+LMh5gvObwqC7YodkQCeMDBm > > BqymZ5mlZmxgugwz0pqPOX4= > > =WTjs > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >