Re: ObjectLoader & batch processing

[Rick Riolo]

daring to speak for ted...

I think drone will be released within a week.
(we've been using it and making changes based on our
experience....we made some recent changes and after we exercise
them a bit in the next few days, and get the doc caught up
to those changes, I think its ready to go.)

Re. Sven's other question about not using run time parameters:

Sven, I'm not sure I understand how you were thinking of doing
things like sweep over some values for a parameter (or more).
Were you thinking to have a separate file to load for each case?

Drone's approach is to have one file with the
"basic" parameter settings, and then uses command line arguments
to override those during a sweep of parameters.

One reason for this approach is so that drone doesn't have
to worry about the structure of the parameter settings file
for any particular program used with it.  Your parameter file
can be whatever your program needs, from simple swarm objectsave/load
format to whatever complexity you need.   
It also means drone will work with non-swarm programs.

 - r

Rick Riolo                       address@hidden
Program for Study of Complex Systems (PSCS)
1061 Randall Lab     University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1120
http://pscs.physics.lsa.umich.edu/PEOPLE/rlr-home.html

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Manor Askenazi wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:55:24 -0700
> From: Manor Askenazi <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: ObjectLoader & batch processing
> 
> 
>    Boy, that was a bummer.
> 
> I know.
> 
>    Well, on to the next question: do you see it as a reasonable thing to do 
>    (or even a possible thing to do) to allow the Swarm app to execute a 
>    number of runs itself (resetting simTime to 0, killing and re-generating 
>    swarms & objects, etc between runs)
> 
> Roger might have some guidelines on this... This seems quite difficult.
> 
>    or is it preferable to do it Ted's way with a script external to Swarm 
>    invoking the app a number of times with different parameters?
> 
> Ted's way works. Hopefully he will soon release his framework, and then
> it won't just work, it'll work on many machines at once!!!
> 
> Manor.
>