Abstract
The focus of this paper is on the development and implementation of a genetic algorithm (GA)-based software system using message passing interface (MPI) protocol and library. A customized form of simple GA used in previous research [1-4] is parallelized. This MPI-enabled version is used to find the solution to finite element based design optimization problems. Results show that an almost linear speedup is obtained on homogenous hardware cluster and, with proper reworking of the software, on heterogeneous hardware cluster.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 155-165 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 2-3 |
| State | Published - Oct 21 2004 |
Keywords
- Genetic algorithm
- MPI
- Parallel processing
- Structural optimization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mechanics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science Applications