JuliaDynamics/Agents.jl

Extend to GPUs

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#70 opened on Nov 24, 2019

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Description

To consider much larger ABMs, it would be great if we can extend Agents.jl to handle GPUs.

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Research direction
Investigate GPU support in Julia via packages like CUDA.jl and understand the Agents.jl internal design for potential parallelization.
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Feature
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4
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Over 1 week
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Active
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Mostly clear
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Julia
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20