SLiM

Overview

SLiM is an evolutionary simulation framework that combines a powerful engine for population genetic simulations with the capability of modeling arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios.

Using

Using Use the module name slim to discover versions available and to load the application.

This application comes with the slim and eidos commands.

Multicore

Not Parallel: Referring to page 19 of the manual: “SLiM is designed to fully utilize a single processor; it is not designed to take advantage of multiple processors using multithreading or MPI. A single run of the slim command runs a given model a single time on a single processor; to conduct the many runs that are typically needed, slim will be run many times. This single-threaded design makes it straightforward for the user to run a separate instance of a model on each processor on a multicore machine or a computing cluster.“