NetLogo BehaviorSpace on the Cloud

[Bruce Edmonds]

I am collecting the names of researchers interested in running NetLogo models in a BehaviorSpece-like way on the cloud. Both those would would like easy ways of doing this as well as those who have done so in various ways.

Please email me, Bruce Edmonds <br...@edmonds.name>.

Thanks

[Arthur Hjorth]

Hi Bruce,

When I was still a PhD student in the CCL we had a bash script that made it easy to run BehaviorSpace experiments on the headless version of NetLogo, specifying the number of threads, amount of RAM etc that we needed. We used this to run experiments on our supercomputer cluster at Northwestern. I never actually looked at the bash script, but I am guessing it interacted with a script or some sort of API that the people who rant he  supercomputer cluster at NU had written.

I don't know if this counts as running "in the cloud", but it was quite easy, and very useful. 

Best,

Arthur

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[Miguel Pais]

I've used google cloud platform to run behaviorsearch on a 24-core instance, but it was pretty painful to learn how to install everything remotely on Linux and then send in the inputs and collect the outputs... In the end I did it, but the learning curve was pretty steep...

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Hi Miguel Pais,

Great to hear that you did it on Linux. I am struggling with running RNetLogo on Linux. Specifically, I tried to run my NetLogo model from R using the package RNetLogo on Linux; however, inside R, it seems struggling to start NetLogo and the memory usage keeps increasing till the job is killed (NetLogo could not be started). However, I could run the same NetLogo model in the same way on windows successfully (i.e., run NetLogo model using RNetLogo).  On Linux, I can run the NetLogo model using NetLogo with GUI successfully; however, when I tried to run the NetLogo model using RNetLogo, it failed. In other words, on Linux, both R and NetLogo can work, separately; however, it seems RNetLogo does not work. 

On Linux, I found when I loaded R, I loaded one version of Java (jdk/1.8.0); however, when the RNetLogo was installed, it used a different version of Java (jre1.8.0_221).  This means that R uses a different Java with RNetLogo and NetLogo. Does it matter? Might it be the reason why the RNetLogo can't work on Linux? Is there anything special I need to pay attention to when I try to run RNetLogo on Linux?

Thank you so much.

在 2019年7月4日星期四 UTC-6下午7:41:09，Miguel Pais写道：