On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:08:20PM +0200, Costas Dokolas spake thusly: > So the question is, if I wanted to run some simulations how would I go about > doing it? How was it done initially? Can it be done in Java? Is there > something built for this purpose already? If there is nothing available,
I have pondered using something like User Mode Linux, creating maybe a hundred instances with maybe a gig of ds each (easy with 200G IDE disks nowadays) and seeing what happens. Cpu speed, RAM, and disk IO would be the problems but at least this would eliminate network bandwidth issues. But there may not even be a need to run each fred in its own kernel instances. Since it runs on random ports etc it seems like maybe a lot could be run in parallel as long as they don't step on each other too much resource-wise. > could something be done in Java, or is it not practical for some reason > (like speed, or capacity)? <troll> Java is not practical for reasons like speed or capacity but who's gonna let that stop them from trying? ;) </troll> <snip lots of good simulation ideas> What sort of simulation efforts have been attempted already? Seems like I recall Ian or someone writing code to simulate certain situations but that was more of a mathematical analysis, not a simulation running a bunch of actual nodes. -- Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org
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