I've been trying to figure out how I'm going to implement a study on Parallel GAs for the GRID - the target of my Advanced AI class. GridSim doesn't seem to go into depth enough to satisfy me, although my professor probably would be indifferent if I were to use it. It doesn't even make an attempt at modeling latency on the Internet - which can be killer for a distributed application. GridSim is quite abstract, it doesn't seem to allow the programmer to go into much detail about the layout of their application... perhaps it will be enough. In any case I have to do _something_, and conquering Globuss is not going to happen by the end of the semester. I am trying to stay focused on the task of implementing the GAs, despite the very strong desire to attempt writing my own Internet topology model for the use in Public Resource Computing models. Perhaps this will happen eventually, but for now I just want to get in the good graces of the professor.
