-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maciej M. Latek on 12/06/2007 05:48 PM: > 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 > [...] > What scale of simulation are we talking about that a decent 8 core desktop > with plenty of RAM is not enough? Thanks for the lead to Proactive. I'll take a look at it. Most of my work these days is in biological modeling, which means ~100s of thousands of relatively homogenous agents per simulation. Coarse grained simulation (the kind manageable by "shell scripts and rsh", though I prefer MPI) has worked for me so far. But, I'm about to embark on a project that might require a much more fine granularity, or more accurately multi-grain hierarchical agents. I'm just looking for an evolutionary path to bridge from the current grain to the finer grain. - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-219-3846, http://tempusdictum.com Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. -- Malcolm X -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHWLfZZeB+vOTnLkoRAuIxAKCg8oGqUfo881AJTeinTVTh3Zb27wCeKgAe KnGoFIT4rxU2C00bXKS70UQ= =8x99 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----