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Adapting Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms to Heterogeneous Hardware

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Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIX

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((TCCI,volume 9380))

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Distributed computing environments are nowadays composed of many heterogeneous computers able to work cooperatively. Despite this, the most of the work in parallel metaheuristics assumes a homogeneous hardware as the underlying platform. In this work we provide a methodology that enables a distributed genetic algorithm to be customized for higher efficiency on any available hardware resources with different computing power, all of them collaborating to solve the same problem. We analyze the impact of heterogeneity in the resulting performance of a parallel metaheuristic and also its efficiency in time. Our conclusion is that the solution quality is comparable to that achieved by using a theoretically faster homogeneous platform, the traditional environment to execute this kind of algorithms, but an interesting finding is that those solutions are found with a lower numerical effort and even in lower running times in some cases.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the UNLPam, the ANPCYT, CONICET and PICTO-UNLPam-0278 in Argentina from which Dr. Salto receives regular support. The work of Prof. Alba has been partially funded by the University of Málaga UMA/FEDER FC14-TIC36, programa de fortalecimiento de las capacidades de I+D+I en las universidades 2014–2015, de la Consejería y Economía, Innovación, Ciencia y Empleo, with European FEDER, and also by the UMA Project 8.06/5.47.4142 with the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava (CR). Finally, we acknowledge the funding by the Spanish MINECO project TIN2014-57341-R (http://moveon.lcc.uma.es).

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    Carolina Salto

  2. Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

    Enrique Alba

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Salto, C., Alba, E. (2015). Adapting Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms to Heterogeneous Hardware. In: Nguyen, N., Kowalczyk, R., Xhafa, F. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIX . Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9380. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49017-4_7

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