ranga@uceng.UC.EDU (Dr. Ranga R. Vemuri) (09/28/89)
Are there any simulators, perferably on a vector or parallel processor, of cellular automata ? I am looking for refereces for actual performance of the simulators (how fast they are, what machines they run on etc...). Can someone help ? Thanks Ranga. ranga@uceng.uc.edu
hiebeler@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Dave Hiebeler) (09/29/89)
In article <6610@hubcap.clemson.edu> ranga@uceng.UC.EDU (Dr. Ranga R. Vemuri) writes: > Are there any simulators, perferably on a vector or parallel processor, > of cellular automata ? I am looking for refereces for actual > performance of the simulators (how fast they are, what machines they > run on etc...). Can someone help ? I am working on the latest version of Cellsim (a SunView-based cellular automata simulator), which is a public-domain package. Hopefully, by the end of December or so, I will have a version which lets you attach to a Connection Machine to do the actual array-updates. I'm not going to spend a great deal of optimizing it, but since each it simply uses the table-lookup method, updating a cell only takes a few instructions, and the thing is fairly efficient. In working with cellular automata the past few years, I don't recall seeing articles about performance issues on parallel machines, but then I wasn't really looking. Perhaps you should also try asking in the comp.theory.cell-automata newsgroup. -- Dave Hiebeler hiebeler@turing.cs.rpi.edu Computer Science Dept. hiebeler@cardinal.lanl.gov Amos Eaton Bldg. "xue zai shao" -- Huang Ying Ying Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Troy, NY 12180-3590