Hi Dirk, On 10/24/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > > 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.
Had come across PGAPack some time back, did not spend much time with it though. But after I am through with some of the theoretical aspects of both Genetic algorithms, parallel genetic algorithms. I shall definitely start off with PGAPack By the way, if time permits could you kindly point me to some relevant resources you may know of, though I shall turn to Google soon. Will get back to you after I have started looking at PGAPack. Thanks, Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha *NetBeans Community Docs Contribution Coordinator* me blogs@ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com URL:http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com
