Publication detail

Parallel Genetic Algorithm Solving 0/1 Knapsack Problem Running on the GPU

POSPÍCHAL, P. SCHWARZ, J. JAROŠ, J.

Original Title

Parallel Genetic Algorithm Solving 0/1 Knapsack Problem Running on the GPU

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

In this work, we show that consumer-level $100 GPU can be used to significantly speed-up optimization of 0/1 Knapsack problem. We identify strong and weak points of GPU architecture and propose our parallel genetic algorithm model implemented in CUDA running entirely on the GPU. We show that GPU must be utilized for sufficiently long time in order to obtain reasonable program speedup. Then we compare results quality and speed of our model with single-threaded CPU code implemented using Galib. Peak speedup of GPU GA execution performance is 1340x resp. 134x for 4-bit resp. 40-bit problem instances while maintaining reasonable results quality.

Keywords

massively parallel, genetic algorithm, island model, CUDA, GPU, 0/1 Knapsack problem

Authors

POSPÍCHAL, P.; SCHWARZ, J.; JAROŠ, J.

RIV year

2010

Released

13. 7. 2010

Publisher

Brno University of Technology

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-4120-0

Book

16th International Conference on Soft Computing MENDEL 2010

Pages from

64

Pages to

70

Pages count

7

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/9253/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT34660,
  author="Petr {Pospíchal} and Josef {Schwarz} and Jiří {Jaroš}",
  title="Parallel Genetic Algorithm Solving 0/1 Knapsack Problem Running on the GPU",
  booktitle="16th International Conference on Soft Computing MENDEL 2010",
  year="2010",
  pages="64--70",
  publisher="Brno University of Technology",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-214-4120-0",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/9253/"
}

Documents

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