GameOfLife-COVID19

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COVID-19 Modeling with the Game of Life

title: "COVID-19 Modeling with the Game of Life"
date: 2020-05-05
author: "Daniel Ackermans"

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Click here for project write-up

Testing enviroment setup:

• pull us.csv from NYT github files (https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data)
• "outputs" folder created
• "data" folder created
• set WORLD_POP to current number from:
  • https://www.census.gov/popclock/
• compile with "Makefile"
• run with slurm script:
  • Example slurm script: slurpSpectrum.sh
  • Maximum worldSize = 2,000,0000

Minimun needed directory structure:

• project
  • data/
  • outputs/
  • gol-main.c
  • gol-with-cuda.cu
  • Makefile
  • slurmSpectrum.sh
  • us.csv
  • README.md

Compile line arguments

slurm*.sh:

2 1 3 3 300000 7 128 0

Line items:

1. initialization pattern (0-4)
2. spread pattern (0-3)
3. infection rate (0-100)
4. death rate (0-100)
5. sim. world size ( < 2,000,000)
6. iterations (> 0)
7. number of threads (1-128)
8. output(on/off) (0 or 1)