A simulation of an ecological network using concurrency distributed on a network.
You need an installation of rebar to successfully fetch dependencies and compile the project.
It is avaiable here: https://github.com/rebar/rebar
or for unix users:
sudo apt-get install rebar
Secondly a version of erlang needs to be installed, preferably OTP 20, otherwise
new dependencies might not work properly. If you do not have a current version you can
get it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get purge erlang uninstalling old version
sudo apt-get install esl-erlang=1:20.1 install new version
All commands are supposed to be executed in the top level directory of the project.
Pay attention that the project folder has the same name as the project.
To run the project you need to fetch all dependencies first.
rebar get-deps fetches all necessary dependencies.
Once done, compile the project with rebar compile.
Then you can run it using the script ./run_local.sh.
To look at the current simulation state open localhost:8080 on your browser.
Results can also be examined as CSV. The simulation writes all changes to the file simulation_results.txt. A ruby script for the conversion to CSV-format is provided (txt2csv.rb). For this to work ruby has to be installed.
In the run_local.sh script you can change the size of the simulation in the master:start() call.
There is a Makefile included which compiles just the project files without
dependencies.
To just test the server without the simulation you can run ./test_server.sh This lets you
examine the interface, but the server will crash when you try to send commands for the
simulation.
