DGenesis:

DGenesis is a distributed implementation of a Parallel GA. It is based on Genesis 5.0. It runs on a network of UNIX workstations. It has been tested with DECstations, microVAXes, Sun Workstations and PCs running 386BSD 0.1. Each subpopulation is handled by a UNIX process and the communication between them is accomplished using Berkeley sockets. The system is programmed in C and is available free of charge by anonymous FTP from ftp://lamport.rhon.itam.mx:/ and from ftp://ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil/pub/galist/src/ga/dgenesis-1.0.tar.Z

DGenesis allows the user to set the MIGRATION interval, the migration rate and the topology between the SUB-POPULATIONs. There has not been much work investigating the effect of the topology on the PERFORMANCE of the GA, DGenesis was written specifically to encourage experimentation in this area. It still needs many refinements, but some may find it useful.

Contact Erick Cantu-Paz <ecantu@lamport.rhon.itam.mx> at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)