A version of BUGS would be great.
Some friends have reported good success running BUGS under wine, the
windows emulator. They say that BUGS runs faster and recovery from a run
that stops for some reason is possible.
Anne
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Wayne E Thogmartin wrote:
> Here at the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center we are evaluating
> the potential for developing a Linux-based BUGS. Our interest is in
> speeding up processing from what currently takes nearly 3 days per run
> (with final models historically averaging nearly one month of development
> time). We hope that by creating "LinBUGS" we might be able to implement a
> clustered-processing approach whereby we share the simulations across a
> number of computers. A simplistic approach would be running single chains
> on individual computers and then combining them post hoc. Another approach
> might be to actually split some of the processing within chains across
> multiple computers; it is this latter approach that would harness the power
> of clustered computing. Before we go off on some goose chase, I would like
> to hear from the BUGS community about this issue. If you have previously
> considered or implemented a clustered-computing approach for BUGS, please
> contact me. Also, I'm rather interested in whether others feel processing
> time currently constrains the questions one might ask. We currently run
> our models on machines (1 gb RAM, 1.80 GHz processing speed) that aren't
> puny; each iteration takes on the order of 17 seconds. Because convergence
> on most of the spatial models I'm working with doesn't occur until
> somewhere around 18,000 iterations, that's 2.8 days in a single run.
>
> Thanks for any discussion this might generate,
>
> Wayne E. Thogmartin, PhD
> Statistician (Biology)
> USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
> 2630 Fanta Reed Road
> La Crosse, WI 54603
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