Re: parallel processing models

[Jan Kreft]

Hi Steve,

You are welcome to use my model (BacSim) to test how hard it would be to
parallelize it ;-) Quite serious, actually. Current runs are a few days
and I would like to go to 3D, which at current speed is out of the
question.

Cheers, Jan.

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Steve Brophy wrote:

> Hello Swarm developers,
> 
> We are looking at an internal project to explore how hard it would be to use
> a clustering technology like Beowulf or PVM to run large simulations using
> parallel processing (currently building the models in swarm).
> 
> >From the previous messages on a multi-processor swarm, it sounds like a big
> job for the swarm general case.  But that there were discussions and a plan
> for what would be needed, even though implementation is not a priority now.
> 
> Our question:  is the plan defined to enough detail that it would give us a
> place to start, and also might have some small enough pieces that we could
> develop and contribute?  Or are we better off looking to examples of how
> people have done model-specific parallization?
> 
> thanks, Steve
> 
> (Still planning to get that SDG membership, need to corral the right budget
> person)
> 
> Steve Brophy     ERIM, Ann Arbor MI
> 
> 
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