Proposal to investigate and develop a GPGPU based ABM library

by Arjun Ravi Narayan for Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Univ of Michigan

This proposal is to work on the new project under consideration at CSCS@UMichigan, Developing Libraries for GPGPU Agent-Based Models. I wish to begin developing a library of GPGPU tools based on a reimplementation of the ABM in "Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Change" (originally implemented in REPAST in Java) by Dr. Elizabeth Bruch. I am flexible on the exact ABM chosen, but envision developing the model in either CUDA or PyCUDA, as OpenCL is not yet an available alternative.