Building a Parallel Computer System for \$18,000 that Performs a Half Peta-Flop per Day
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author = "Forrest H {Bennett III} and John R. Koza and
James Shipman and Oscar Stiffelman",
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title = "Building a Parallel Computer System for \$18,000 that
Performs a Half Peta-Flop per Day",
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booktitle = "Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conference",
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year = "1999",
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editor = "Wolfgang Banzhaf and Jason Daida and
Agoston E. Eiben and Max H. Garzon and Vasant Honavar and
Mark Jakiela and Robert E. Smith",
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volume = "2",
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pages = "1484--1490",
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address = "Orlando, Florida, USA",
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publisher_address = "San Francisco, CA 94104, USA",
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month = "13-17 " # jul,
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publisher = "Morgan Kaufmann",
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keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, real world
applications, parallel computing",
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ISBN = "1-55860-611-4",
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URL = "http://www.genetic-programming.com/jkpdf/gecco1999beowulf.pdf",
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URL = "http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gecco1999/RW-788.pdf",
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URL = "http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gecco1999/RW-788.ps",
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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.",
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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)",
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Genetic Programming entries for
Forrest Bennett
John Koza
James Shipman
Oscar Stiffelman
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