On 10/24/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@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.