Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Question

[Miles Parker]

Wow, its always a little nerve-racking to see something like this  
because you wonder if you've been wasting your time. ;) OTOH, it is  
exciting and somewhat of a relief to see that the ideas are not  
completely out to lunch! Parallel evolution in action.

There seems to be some strong theoretical/foundational work which  
could be extremely helpful. Naturally there are some sharp technical/ 
implementation differences and I'm not sure what the license is...  
apparently one has to get an email approval back for access. A Windows  
front-end as Bill mentions -- not sure I'm ready to load BootCamp..  
OTOH if it is mostly low-level c it might not be too hard to port.

In any case, one of the really cool aspects of meta modeling is that  
meta-models can be derived from one another very easily -- at least  
relative to deriving code from another implementation! For example, I  
must say that I think the UI aspects of metaABM are very strong, but  
OTOH if this tool already has useful targets for clusters one could  
actually generate code for FLAME from a metaABM representation and get  
access to that for 'free'. One could also go the other way, though  
part of that would be hard to automate as there does appear to be  
explicit C code in the xml representation which one would need to parse.


Miles T. Parker
Principal
Metascape, LLC
"Extraordinary Tools for Extraordinary Science"
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On Mar 19, 2008, at 6:18 AM, Roshan D'Souza wrote:

> Group,
>
> It is similar to MetaABM. Looks like the system is built to run on  
> conventional parallel architecture i.e, cluster based computing.   
> They will have problems with scalability. We can perhaps take the  
> front end and stick it on to a GPU engine.
>
> -Roshan
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:02 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with Flame http://www.flame.ac.uk/ ?   
> I'm a bit familiar with the Epitheliome project, which seems to be  
> its precursor.  It looks very interesting, and seems like it might  
> be similar to MetaABM.  Its also interesting that it looks like it  
> can run on parallel machines.  Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Gary An
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