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Sarahdata
Sarahdata

Reputation: 339

How much RAM does my netlogo model needs?

I'm building a model based on a very large GIS map. I'm building it on a smaller portion of the map because the shapefile won't even load in Netlogo installed on my computer (I already modified the space needed in the JVM settings).

I have access to a large calculation platform which is a cluster of processor. (I understood that one model is running on one processor only) To be able to use the cluster, I must evaluate how much RAM and time the model would need.

  1. how can I monitor the RAM usage in netlogo as we monitor the time ?

  2. would you have advices/rule of thumbs about the extrapolation of RAM and time from a small simulated dataset to a larger one ? I believe that I should do it procedures by procedures, and depending on the commands, "multiplying by the number of extra patches".

For the background, I'm not a computing engineer, I'm a researcher in agronomy/hydrology that do modeling. Thanks for your time !

Upvotes: 2

Views: 158

Answers (2)

Bart de Bruin
Bart de Bruin

Reputation: 21

Maybe this package made by Gary Polhill might work for you. By using mgr:mem and mgr:cpu-time during a behaviorspace run you can test the distribution of cpu_time and memory used across different behavior-space runs.

https://github.com/garypolhill/netlogo-jvmgr

Upvotes: 0

Sarahdata
Sarahdata

Reputation: 339

From the netlogo-users google group, I got the answer that I should just use the "Task Manager" tool from Windows and monitor the specific memory usage of netlogo when running the model.

Upvotes: 1

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