troubles using threadpool on amachine with linux

[dellacpa]

Hi,
I have written a program that runs on multiple threads. I wrote the program using NetBeans 7.0.1. When I run the program from NetBeans I get the following error

0 [main] INFO fish  - There are 8 simulations to execute.
0 [main] INFO fish  - 8 Simulations ready to run.
0 [main] INFO fish  - Running with a thread pool of size = 1
16 [pool-1-thread-1] INFO [Repetition 0]  - method run() in simulation started
Exception in thread "main" java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$AbortPolicy.rejectedExecution(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1768)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.reject(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:767)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:658)
        at java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(AbstractExecutorService.java:78)
        at fishmodel.Main.run(Main.java:76)
        at fishmodel.Main.main(Main.java:53)

If I use a threadpool of size 1, the code works fine (despite the errror message), but if I select more threads the program just never starts (it does not crash/exit/fail/quit, it just sits there and does nothing. Below is is my Main.java class.
Any help would be very very welcomed!

public class Main {
  // Logger for IO
  static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("fish");

  public static void main(String[] args) throws java.io.IOException
    {
      CmdLineOptions options = new CmdLineOptions();
      CmdLineParser parser = new CmdLineParser(options);
      parser.setUsageWidth(80);

      BasicConfigurator.configure();

      // Logger levels:
      // WARN - almost nothing
      // INFO - a bit more
      // DEBUG - more
      // TRACE - everything
      logger.setLevel(Level.INFO);

      try {
        parser.parseArgument(args);
      } catch (CmdLineException e) {
        logger.error(e.getMessage());
        logger.error("java -jar FishModel.jar [options...] arguments...");
        parser.printUsage(System.err);
        System.exit(1);
      }
      Main main = new Main();
      main.run(options);
    }

    public void run(CmdLineOptions options) throws java.io.IOException
    {
        // create the ArrayList<SimulationParameters>
        // this ArrayList has all informations that are necessary to run a simulation
        // all things such a s locations and names of input/output files
        // and model's rules for each simulation (e.g. mating random or non-random)
        ArrayList<SimulationParameters> mySimulationParameters = createSimulationToRun(options);

        logger.info(mySimulationParameters.size() + " Simulations ready to run.");

        // this sets how many simulations can be run simultaneously (one thread per processor)
        logger.info("Running with a thread pool of size = " + options.threads);
        ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(options.threads);

        // for every line of the ArrayList<SimulationParameters>, run the given simulation
        for(int i = 0; i < mySimulationParameters.size(); i++) {
            SimulationParameters params = mySimulationParameters.get(i);
            for (int j = 0; j < params.numberOfRepetitions; j++) {
                logger.trace("Submitting new simulation for execution.");
                try {
                    pool.submit(new Simulation(params, j));
                } catch (CloneNotSupportedException ex) {
                    java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
                }
            }
            pool.shutdown();
        }        
    }

    public ArrayList<SimulationParameters> createSimulationToRun(CmdLineOptions options) throws java.io.IOException
    {
      ArrayList<SimulationParameters> sims = createSimulationFromOptions(options);

      if (options.simFileLocation != null) {
            try {
                sims.addAll(ExcelFile.readSimulationFile(options.simFileLocation));
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            }
      } else {
        logger.warn("No simulation file was specified.");
      }

      logger.info("There are " + sims.size() + " simulations to execute.");

      return sims;
    }

    public ArrayList<SimulationParameters> createSimulationFromOptions(CmdLineOptions options) throws java.io.IOException
    {
      ArrayList<SimulationParameters> sims = new ArrayList<SimulationParameters>();
      SimulationParameters sim = new SimulationParameters();

      sim.simulationGroupID                 = options.simulationGroup;
      sim.startSimulationYear               = options.startSimulationYear;
      sim.endSimulationYear                 = options.endSimulationYear;
      sim.numberOfRepetitions               = options.numberOfRepetitions;      
      sim.randomSeed                        = options.randomSeed;
      
      sim.populationID                      = options.populationID;
      sim.stockingDescription               = options.stockingDescription;
      sim.needOfSpecialFish                 = options.needOfSpecialFish;
      sim.initialFishFileLocation           = options.initialFishFileLocation;
      sim.stockedFishFileLocation           = options.stockedFishFileLocation;
            
      sim.maxAge                            = options.maxAge;
      sim.maturityAge                       = options.maturityAge;
      sim.diagnosticLoci                    = options.diagnosticLoci;
      sim.populationAmongGrounds            = options.populationAmongGrounds;
      sim.populationStructureRule           = options.populationStructureRule;
      sim.differenceController              = options.differenceController;
      
      sim.networkID                         = options.networkID;
      sim.multipleSpGrndPresent             = options.multipleSpGrnd;
      sim.nodesAndFishFileLocation          = options.nodesAndFishFileLocation;
      sim.linksFileLocation                 = options.linksFileLocation;
      
      sim.generalOutputFileLocation         = options.generalOutputFileLocation;
      sim.alleleOutputFileLocation          = options.alleleOutputFileLocation;
      sim.offspringIntrogressionfileLocation = options.offspringIntrogressionfileLocation;
      sim.ychOutputFileLocation             = options.ychOutputFileLocation;


      // This seems like funny behavior but it helps clean things up
      if (options.simFileLocation == null) {
        sims.add(sim);
      }

      return sims;
    }
}