Sorry, it's the first I've heard of it. Looks interesting, though. --Doug
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, russell standish <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 06:13:37AM -0600, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > Hi, Russ. > > > > As you might suspect from my previous comments, I have spent many years > > building models, most of them ABMs, many of them large distributed ones. > > What I have found over the years is that each problem domain is > > significantly different from other domains, meaning there there is very > > little generic agent behavior or functionality that could realistically > be > > captured and reused in an "ABM framework". > > > > There is some, however, and in fact I have built my own very lightweight > > framework (in C++) that uses it. I chose C++ because it is a language > that > > is well-supported in HPC environments. > > > > Doug, did you ever take a look at EcoLab? (http://ecolab.sf.net) It is > a C++ ABM framework that I've worked on that addresses similar issues > to yours. One of its key features is adding automatic reflection to > C++ making it extremely easy to migrate agents between processors. A > couple of years ago, I did a 13.5 million agent simulation running on > 8 processors, which worked like a charm. > > Anyway, given your experience, I'd be interested in your honest > opinion on it. > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Mathematics > UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] > Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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