%0 Conference Paper %1 Gagne:2003:gecco %A Gagne, Christian %A Parizeau, Marc %A Dubreuil, Marc %B Genetic and Evolutionary Computation -- GECCO-2003 %C Chicago %D 2003 %E Cantú-Paz, E. %E Foster, J. A. %E Deb, K. %E Davis, D. %E Roy, R. %E O'Reilly, U.-M. %E Beyer, H.-G. %E Standish, R. %E Kendall, G. %E Wilson, S. %E Harman, M. %E Wegener, J. %E Dasgupta, D. %E Potter, M. A. %E Schultz, A. C. %E Dowsland, K. %E Jonoska, N. %E Miller, J. %I Springer-Verlag %K algorithms, genetic poster programming, %P 1578--1579 %T The Master-Slave Architecture for Evolutionary Computations Revisited %U http://vision.gel.ulaval.ca/en/publications/Id_440/PublDetails.php %V 2724 %X The recent availability of cheap Beowulf clusters has generated much interest for Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Computations (PDEC). Another often neglected source of CPU power for PDEC are networks of PCs, in many case very powerful workstations, that run idle each day for long periods of time. To exploit efficiently both Beowulfs and networks of heterogeneous workstations we argue that the classic master-slave distribution model is superior to the currently more popular island-model. Results obtained with a plausible deployment scenario demonstrate that system performance degrades gracefully when failures occurred, while still achieving near linear speedup in the ideal case. %@ 3-540-40603-4

@inproceedings{Gagne:2003:gecco, abstract = {The recent availability of cheap Beowulf clusters has generated much interest for Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Computations (PDEC). Another often neglected source of CPU power for PDEC are networks of PCs, in many case very powerful workstations, that run idle each day for long periods of time. To exploit efficiently both Beowulfs and networks of heterogeneous workstations we argue that the classic master-slave distribution model is superior to the currently more popular island-model. Results obtained with a plausible deployment scenario demonstrate that system performance degrades gracefully when failures occurred, while still achieving near linear speedup in the ideal case.}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, address = {Chicago}, author = {Gagne, Christian and Parizeau, Marc and Dubreuil, Marc}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c37b7e251e7ef37a2bcc0f06a32fa421/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {Genetic and Evolutionary Computation -- GECCO-2003}, editor = {Cant{\'u}-Paz, E. and Foster, J. A. and Deb, K. and Davis, D. and Roy, R. and O'Reilly, U.-M. and Beyer, H.-G. and Standish, R. and Kendall, G. and Wilson, S. and Harman, M. and Wegener, J. and Dasgupta, D. and Potter, M. A. and Schultz, A. C. and Dowsland, K. and Jonoska, N. and Miller, J.}, interhash = {19165b7144b6415072f843e31a423d36}, intrahash = {c37b7e251e7ef37a2bcc0f06a32fa421}, isbn = {3-540-40603-4}, keywords = {algorithms, genetic poster programming,}, month = {12-16 July}, notes = {GECCO-2003. A joint meeting of the twelfth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2003) and the eights Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2003) BEAGLE}, pages = {1578--1579}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, publisher_address = {Berlin}, series = {LNCS}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:39:59.000+0200}, title = {The Master-Slave Architecture for Evolutionary Computations Revisited}, url = {http://vision.gel.ulaval.ca/en/publications/Id_440/PublDetails.php}, volume = 2724, year = 2003 }