Re: Swarm SFI-Hive Pheromone, October 1998 [repost]

[Jan Kreft]

(this is a repost since it didn't seem to get through yesterday, apologies
if you got this already.)

Dear  all,

though at the moment immersed in experimental work, I'll be soon returning
to Swarm :-) When I do so, I'll try to get serious with BacSim and extend
it to a larger and 3D space. That will probably make paralellization
necessary. So, this is an attempt at pushing parallelizing Swarm up on the
agenda list. I would guess that most people with spatially extended models
will sooner or later need a parallel version rather than interactive
frills. 

Who else thinks the same?

Cheers,

Jan.

Jan Kreft                               Phone +44 (0)1222 876036
Cardiff School of Biosciences           Fax   +44 (0)1222 874305
Cardiff University                      E-mail address@hidden
PO Box 915, Cardiff CF1 3TL, UK

>                    The Swarm SFI-Hive Pheromone
>                         Volume 3, Issue 6
>                          October 23, 1998

> Over the next year:
> 
> The top priority for the Swarm is to reduce the amount of programming 
> knowledge needed in order to develop a useful simulation.  To facilitate this,
> the Swarm team at SFI will be developing interactive activity browsers and 
> integrating with popular visual programming environments.  The multi-language
> capability will provide the ability to write agent models in languages other
> than just Objective C.  In order to support large and complex models in a
> scalable and transparent way, the Swarm team will add object distribution
> and parallelism features using the existing logical Swarm model.
> This will complete the original design of Swarm as a usable and efficient 
> fine-grained simulation system.



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