Re: [Swarm-Support] huge memory allocation

[Russell Standish]

I'm sceptical this scale of computation can be handled in Swarm. This
sort of computation is feasible in Ecolab (cf the supplied jellyfish
model, which ran effectively with 10^6 agents), but you will need to
have a cluster handy to achieve reasonable simulation times.

BTW - it is vital that you perform spatial binning, regardless of your
simulation platform. This reduces interaction complexity from O(N^2)
to something like O((N/nbins)^2).

                                        Cheers

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 06:14:32PM +0100, Rouilly, Vincent wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First I would like to thank the people who are involved in Swarm for the
> work that has been done. The platform is great and it is really helpful
> in my research.
> 
> My question:
> 
> For my perfect simulation, I would like to create a 5000x5000 Grid2d
> space + 3 Discrete2D planes.
> 
> Within this space, I would like to insert up to 750000 agents .... (huge
> I know, and all as to be instantiated at the same time and for the same
> amount of time). 
> 
> Of course I have memory allocation problems at the moment.
> 
> How could I handle such a simulation ? Is there a way to increase the
> memory allocation capacity of Swarm (or my computer) ? Are they any
> limitations within swarm I should be aware of ? Using a cluster with
> Swarm is possible ?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Vincent
> 

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