Title
Heterogeneous Parallelization of the Linkmap Program
Abstract
Sequential genetic algorithms have many successful applications in very different domains, but they have a main drawback in their utilization. Evaluations are very time-consuming, e.g., a pedigree consisting of fifty-five nodes takes about seventy minutes on a DEC-Alpha processor and about two hundred and seventy minutes on a 166 MHz Pentium for certain likelihood calculations. This time increases exponentially with the increase in the size of the pedigree. In order to solve these shortcomings and to study new models of higher efficiency, parallel platforms are being used for genetic programs. LINKAGE is a software package for performing genetic likelihood calculations; FASTLINK is an improved, faster version of it. This paper provides a parallel implementation of the `Linkmap' program (one of the four programs in LINKAGE/FASTLINK) for a heterogeneous environment, using a static and a dynamic strategy for task allocation. It was found that the increased performance by the dynamic strategy was close to the estimated maximum speedup
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/ICPPW.2000.869139
ICPP Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
dec-alpha processor,linkmap program,parallel implementation,genetic program,certain likelihood calculation,genetic likelihood calculation,sequential genetic algorithm,seventy minute,heterogeneous parallelization,different domain,parallel platform,dynamic strategy,parallel programming,computer science,couplings,information analysis,distributed computing,genetic algorithms,concurrent computing,genetic algorithm,packaging,genetics,application software
Drawback,Computer science,Parallel computing,Software,Pentium,Genetic algorithm,Speedup
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-2016
0-7695-0771-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A Rai161.20
N Lopez-Benitez2235.66
J D Hargis361.20
S E Poduslo4101.84