I&#39;ve run MASON on a number of different combos. I&#39;ve found it runs slowest on a Mac, and the fastest I&#39;ve had is on a machine with Ubuntu and Java 6 (had to override the crappy linux version of Java). I don&#39;t know if it was significantly faster than Windows, and obviously it depends on the machine. Hope that helps. <div>


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<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Matthew Berryman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1006%26L%3DMASON-INTEREST-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D23027%26B%3D--0016e68ee0030e52b60489b5731e%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:</div>


<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
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Anyone with any experience running large simulations using MASON on different OS/JVM combinations?<br>
My gut instinct tells me an X-less Linux box running a recent Sun JVM would be my best bet for speed, but I&#39;m an OS agnostic.<br>
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To date the largest ABM I have helped build runs in Repast 3 (not my choice, I might add ;) and it&#39;s only possible to test it on Windows. There are Java benchmarks out there I know, but none that I can see based around (GUI-less) MASON ABMs.<br>



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