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Found the error, as usual simple foolishness on my part. parallel sequence does work like a charm! Some text forthcoming about my project and publications in response to your proposal note. Thanks! Steve > Parallel sequences should work like a charm: for example MASON's > HeatBugs example uses one. > > We recently had some discussion on the list about making sure that the > parallel sequence's threads are properly gathered by simulation's end, > but that shouldn't affect you at all. > > The entire of a parallel sequence will be executed in one step. So > for example if you want all your fish to gather read-only (be > threadsafe remember) information about their world, and have four CPUs > on your machine, you could create a ParallelSequence which holds four > Sequences, and load your fish, roughly balanced, into those four > Sequences. Each time the schedule steps, all the fish will be stepped > once. > > Some possible places where you might be making an error: any chance > you're rescheduling your fish agents rather than rescheduling the > ParallelSequence? And don't use a RandomSequence inside a > ParallelSequence. > > Sean > > On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Steven Saul wrote: > >> Hi Sean, >> >> Quick question: should a parallel sequence work when running my >> simulation using the GUI? I use the GUI just to de-bug and make >> sure I >> coded something correctly. With the parallel sequence, the simulation >> seems to go from start right to the end without stepping anything. It >> runs fine on the command line. I assume this is a coding error on my >> side, but just wanted to make sure. >> Otherwise, I nearly have the whole sim parallelized including events >> that >> don't happen each time step such as initialziation of objects and >> recuitment events. >> >> Thanks, >> Steve >> >> >> -- >> Steven Saul, M.A. >> Graduate Assistant, Marine Biology and Fisheries >> Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies >> Cooperative Unit for Fisheries Education and Research >> University of Miami - RSMAS >> 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. >> Miami, Florida 33149 >> + 1 305-421-4831 >> http://cufer.rsmas.miami.edu > -- Steven Saul, M.A. Graduate Assistant, Marine Biology and Fisheries Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Cooperative Unit for Fisheries Education and Research University of Miami - RSMAS 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami, Florida 33149 + 1 305-421-4831 http://cufer.rsmas.miami.edu