[FRIAM] FW: Distribution / Parallelization of ABM's

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Douglas Roberts wrote:
> This type of parallel application is almost by definition *not* an 
> agent based simulation. In reality most if not all distributed agent 
> based simulations are MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data) 
> asynchronous applications when implemented in an HPC environment.
Software Transactional Memory might be one way to make multithreaded 
ABMs easier to program and more scalable...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory