%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Validating Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Grids
%+ Department of Computer Science
%+ Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy [Troy]
%+ Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley] (SSL)
%A Desell, Travis
%A Magdon-Ismail, Malik
%A Szymanski, Boleslaw
%A Varela, Carlos A.
%A Newberg, Heidi
%A Anderson, David P.
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 10th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) / Held as part of International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec)
%C Amsterdam, Netherlands
%Y Frank Eliassen; Rüdiger Kapitza
%I Springer
%3 Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
%V LNCS-6115
%P 29-41
%8 2010-06-07
%D 2010
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-13645-0_3
%K Evolutionary Algorithms
%K Validation
%K Volunteer Computing
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL]Conference papers
%X Computational science is placing new demands on distributed computing systems as the rate of data acquisition is far outpacing the improvements in processor speed. Evolutionary algorithms provide efficient means of optimizing the increasingly complex models required by different scientific projects, which can have very complex search spaces with many local minima. This work describes different validation strategies used by MilkyWay@Home, a volunteer computing project created to address the extreme computational demands of 3-dimensionally modeling the Milky Way galaxy, which currently consists of over 27,000 highly heterogeneous and volatile computing hosts, which provide a combined computing power of over 1.55 petaflops. The validation strategies presented form a foundation for efficiently validating evolutionary algorithms on unreliable or even partially malicious computing systems, and have significantly reduced the time taken to obtain good fits of MilkyWay@Home's astronomical models.
%G English
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01061080/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01061080/file/desell_dais_2010.pdf
%L hal-01061080
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01061080
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