- author = "Dylan Sherry and Kalyan Veeramachaneni and James McDermott and Una-May O'Reilly",
- title = "Flex-GP: Genetic Programming on the Cloud",
- booktitle = "Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoApplications 2012: EvoCOMNET, EvoCOMPLEX, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoNUM, EvoPAR, EvoRISK, EvoSTIM, EvoSTOC",
- year = "2011",
- month = "11-13 " # apr,
- editor = "Cecilia {Di Chio} and Alexandros Agapitos and Stefano Cagnoni and Carlos Cotta and F. {Fernandez de Vega} and Gianni A. {Di Caro} and Rolf Drechsler and Aniko Ekart and Anna I Esparcia-Alcazar and Muddassar Farooq and William B. Langdon and Juan J. Merelo and Mike Preuss and Hendrik Richter and Sara Silva and Anabela Simoes and Giovanni Squillero and Ernesto Tarantino and Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi and Julian Togelius and Neil Urquhart and A. Sima Uyar and Georgios N. Yannakakis",
- series = "LNCS",
- volume = "7248",
- publisher = "Springer Verlag",
- address = "Malaga, Spain",
- publisher_address = "Berlin",
- pages = "477--486",
- organisation = "EvoStar",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- isbn13 = "978-3-642-29177-7",
-
URL = "
http://www.dylansherry.com/papers/sherry_2012_flexgp.pdf",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_48",
- size = "10 pages",
- abstract = "We describe FlexGP, which we believe to be the first large-scale genetic programming cloud computing system. We took advantage of existing software and selected a socket-based, client-server architecture and an island-based distribution model. We developed core components required for deployment on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Scaling the system to hundreds of nodes presented several unexpected challenges and required the development of software for automatically managing deployment, reporting, and error handling. The system's performance was evaluated on two metrics, performance and speed, on a difficult symbolic regression problem. Our largest successful FlexGP runs reached 350 nodes and taught us valuable lessons for the next phase of scaling.",
-
notes = "ECJ java. Distributed Island model, each with a
population of 3000, max pop > 1million. (cf
\cite{langdon:2008:SC} ). non-toriodal four node
(square) grid used to pass 40 emigrants every 4th
generation. (Up to 100 generations). Amazon Linux AMI
micro instance insufficient, used small sized instances
instead. Amazon AMI boot takes variable time (up to
several minutes). Need to add 'controller' and
'LogServer' on top of ECJ and Amazon (Python Bota, also
twisted and nmap, all 3 open source).
EvoPAR Part of \cite{DiChio:2012:EvoApps} EvoApplications2012 held in conjunction with EuroGP2012, EvoCOP2012, EvoBio'2012 and EvoMusArt2012",
