Re: simulating large models

[Andy Cleary]

Let me second this request for information: is there a paper or other 
reference that summarizes scaling issues with Swarm (or more generally with 
individually-based models), e.g., what has been done, what are the current 
limits, what is the need for larger simulations, what are the blockers to 
larger simulations, what are the plans (if any) for dealing with those 
blockers, or any subset of the above? We are considering a project in the 
area of looking at and addressing scalability issues in individually-based 
modelling (particularly on parallel computers) but frankly it's a little 
hard to get a good idea of where things are now...

Cheers,
Andy Cleary

Computational Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Labs

At 03:35 PM 6/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone have experience with simulating large models with swarm?
> Is swarm prepared to distributed simulations across several
> processors/machines?
> We're  thinking of large market models which may include hundreds (or even
> thousands) of customers (agents) and
> we foresee scalability problems.
> Perhaps we should use some high performance simulator, but we're not sure
> about it.
> Any hint or suggestion will be welcome.
> Thanks.
>
>
> Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, PhD
> Senior Researcher
> iSOCO, S. A.
> http://www.isoco.com
>
>
>
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