Netlogo High performance Computing

Question

Are there any high performance computing facilites available for running NetLogo behavior space like R servers. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use headless mode to run batches of experiments on a cluster/cloud computing platform. This involves simply running an executable so should be compatible with most setups. If you don't have access to a cluster through an institution, I know people use AWS and Google compute. You probably want an instance with many cores, since that allows a single instance of BehaviorSpace to automatically distribute the runs involved in an experiment across multiple processes. Higher processing power of course helps too. You shouldn't need much memory. The n1-highcpu-16 or n1-standard-16 instance types in Google compute looks pretty ideal to me.