Re: Distributed Simulations with Swarm

[Theodore C. Belding]

On 12 Oct 2000, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> You might also be interested in a package called Drone that can be
> used to distribute whole model runs to different computers.  Drone has
> features for parameter sweeks, etc.  

http://drone.sourceforge.net/

Note that you can wrap the C API of the new (unstable) version of Drone
(2.90.0) inside Objective C/Swarm objects. So you could have a top-level
Swarm object farm out Swarm runs to multiple computers over the Internet,
do parameter sweeps, and act on the results. Or you can use the Drone
application to do this instead of a Swarm object, just like in the old
version (1.03), or customize your own Drone application using the API. 
-Ted

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