[Swarm-Support] Announcement: Xdrone 0.1

[Ed Baskerville]

To all the Mac OS X users out there,

I am pleased to announce a preview release of Xdrone, an plug-in for 
Apple's Xgrid grid computing solution. Xdrone lets you distribute batch 
runs of agent-based models across your "Xgrid"--any local network of 
Mac OS X computers. For those of you that are familiar with Ted 
Belding's Drone, Xdrone is exactly what it sounds like: Drone for 
Xgrid.

Xgrid itself is still only a "technology preview," so I am going to 
wait and see what happens with the final version of Xgrid before 
putting the finishing touches on Xdrone 1.0. Still, please email me any 
suggestions you have about this initial version.

One technical note for Swarm users: before running a batch, be sure 
that the --batch command-line option is specified and that the HOME 
environment variable to . (dot) under 1. Configure Model > Input and 
Environment.

You can get Xdrone 0.1 here:

http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~ebaskerv/xdrone

Enjoy!

--Ed