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An Implementation of Evolutionary Computation Operators in OpenCL

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Intelligent Distributed Computing V

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We discuss the parallel implementation of Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategy on General-Purpose Graphical Units, using the OpenCL framework. Multiple evolutionary operators are tested (tournament, roulette wheel selection, uniform and Gaussian mutation, crossover, recombination), as well as different approaches for parallelism, for small and large problem sizes. We use the Island Model of Parallel GA, with random migration. Performance is measured using two graphic cards: NVidia GeForce GTX 560Ti and AMD Radeon 6950. Tests are performed in a distributed grid, using the Java Parallel Processing Framework.

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  1. Electronics and Computers Department, Transylvania University, Braşov, Romania

    István Lőrentz & Răzvan Andonie

  2. Computer Science Department, Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA, USA

    Răzvan Andonie

  3. Computer Science Department, Saint Anselm College Manchester, NH, USA

    Mihaela Maliţa

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  1. Faculty of Technology,Policy andManagement, Intelligent Interactive Dynamic Systems, Section Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    F. M. T. Brazier

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  3. Faculty of Technology,Policy andManagement, Section Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

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  4. Faculty of Automatics, Computers and Electronics, Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Bvd. Decebal Nr. 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania

    Costin Badica

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Lőrentz, I., Andonie, R., Maliţa, M. (2011). An Implementation of Evolutionary Computation Operators in OpenCL. In: Brazier, F.M.T., Nieuwenhuis, K., Pavlin, G., Warnier, M., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing V. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24013-3_11

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