Building a Parallel Computer System for \$18,000 that Performs a Half Peta-Flop per Day

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@InProceedings{bennett:1999:BPCSPHPD,

• author = "Forrest H {Bennett III} and John R. Koza and James Shipman and Oscar Stiffelman",
• title = "Building a Parallel Computer System for \$18,000 that Performs a Half Peta-Flop per Day",
• booktitle = "Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference",
• year = "1999",
• editor = "Wolfgang Banzhaf and Jason Daida and Agoston E. Eiben and Max H. Garzon and Vasant Honavar and Mark Jakiela and Robert E. Smith",
• volume = "2",
• pages = "1484--1490",
• address = "Orlando, Florida, USA",
• publisher_address = "San Francisco, CA 94104, USA",
• month = "13-17 " # jul,
• publisher = "Morgan Kaufmann",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, real world applications, parallel computing",
• ISBN = "1-55860-611-4",
• URL = "http://www.genetic-programming.com/jkpdf/gecco1999beowulf.pdf",
• URL = "http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gecco1999/RW-788.pdf",
• URL = "http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gecco1999/RW-788.ps",
• abstract = "Techniques of evolutionary computation generally require significant computational resources to solve non-trivial problems of interest. Increases in computing power can be realized either by using a faster computer or by parallelizing the application. Techniques of evolutionary computation are especially amenable to parallelization. This paper describes how to build a 10-node Beowulf-style parallel computer system for $18,000 that delivers about a half peta-flop (1015 floating-point operations) per day on runs of genetic programming. Each of the 10 nodes of the system contains a 533 MHz Alpha processor and runs with the Linux operating system. This amount of computational power is sufficient to yield solutions (within a couple of days per problem) to 14 published problems where genetic programming has produced results that are competitive with human-produced results.",
• notes = "GECCO-99 A joint meeting of the eighth international conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-99) and the fourth annual genetic programming conference (GP-99)",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Forrest Bennett John Koza James Shipman Oscar Stiffelman

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