One thread that has run through much of Carl Hewitt's writing on
Actors is the concept of a sponsor for a computation. This can be
used to control things like execution of multiple independent
solutions to the same problem so that alternatives can be terminated
when any one of them finds a
The Linux C library (probably most *nixes) has a time() function that can
return, amongst others, the actual time that the CPU dedicated to the
calling process, as opposed to simple elapsed time. Unfortunately, I don't
think it can be made to report on thread level, which is probably what you'd
Russ: could you say more about the ABM?
Is it distributed? Cloud (AWS or GAE)? What language? GIS/Location Aware?
Browser capable? Graphically intense (i.e. openGL/GLES/webgl or vanilla 2D)?
GPU based? Scale (single system or cluster; how many agents)? .. and about
another billion
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:40:16PM +0200, Rikus Combrinck wrote:
The Linux C library (probably most *nixes) has a time() function that can
return, amongst others, the actual time that the CPU dedicated to the
calling process, as opposed to simple elapsed time. Unfortunately, I don't
think it
Thanks, that's good to know! --Rikus
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 23:22, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.auwrote:
Yes it does, although in typical Microsoft fashion, the details differ:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683223(v=vs.85).aspx
(I had cause to look into this recently
I'm considering the development of an ABM in which the agents are charged
for the computations they do. But I can't think of a language that
facilitates that. I know that in most languages one can look at the
real-time clock, but I can't think of a language in which one can look at a
dynamic
Interesting idea. Most Common Lisp implementations compile to native machine
code, so it might not be too hard to instrument the generated code to do some
kind of bookeeping. There are quite a few open source implementations out
there, e.g. Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.sbcl.org) or Clozure
Hey Russ,
You might look at how Google App Engine tries to get a handle on this
when charging for CPU:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html
Josh has pointed out that there's some weird interpretations. For
instance, they quote $0.10 per cpu hour but don't specify the CPU. Is
it
Thanks, Stephen. How come you only post announcements to Friam?
About Google, they have an advantage over my situation. They can start and
stop the clock when they start and stop the application. I don't know that I
can do that for agents. Also, I have no control over whether something else
runs
