On 24 October 2007 at 01:01, Amit Kumar Saha wrote: | Hello all! | | After some background research, I am soon going to start working on | "Parallel Genetic Algorithms". When I reach the point of practical | implementation, I am going to use Open MPI for the purpose. | | Has anyone here worked on similar things? It would be nice if you could | share some views/comments.
Yes. PGAPACK, developend in the mid-1990s by David Levine while at Argonne, works perfectly well in parallel under various MPI implementations. I have been in contact with David and Argonne to coordinate a re-release under a newer license [1], but we're not quite there yet, and I have been the one holding this up. Hopefully more news 'soon' but I've been mumbling that all summer while I kept busy... You may want to look at PGAPACK and study it for possible extensions and refactorings, rather than to start again from scratch. Cheers, Dirk [1] The original license is more restrictive than it needs to be, and everybody is in agreement that a more liberal and understood license would be beneficial. The MPICH license, suggested by Argonne, works for everybody, and is the most likely outcome. | Regards, | Amit | -- | Amit Kumar Saha | *NetBeans Community Docs | Contribution Coordinator* | me blogs@ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com | URL:http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com | Hello all!<br><br>After some background research, I am soon going to start working on "Parallel Genetic Algorithms". When I reach the point of practical implementation, I am going to use Open MPI for the purpose. | <br><br>Has anyone here worked on similar things? It would be nice if you could share some views/comments.<br><br>Regards,<br>Amit<br>-- <br>Amit Kumar Saha<br>*NetBeans Community Docs <br>Contribution Coordinator*<br>me blogs@ | <a href="http://amitksaha.blogspot.com";>http://amitksaha.blogspot.com</a><br>URL:<a href="http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com";>http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com</a> | _______________________________________________ | users mailing list | us...@open-mpi.org | http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
