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The Master-Slave Architecture for Evolutionary Computations Revisited
Christian Gagné, Marc Parizeau, and Marc Dubreuil
Laboratoire de Vision et Systèmes Numériques (LVSN)
Département de Génie Électrique et de Génie Informatique
Université Laval
Québec (QC), Canada, G1K 7P4
{cgagne,parizeau,dubreuil}@gel.ulaval.ca
Abstract. The recent availability of cheap Beowulf clusters has generated much interest for Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Computations (PDEC) [1]. 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 [1].
LNCS 2724, p. 1578 ff.
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