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= History (past work) =
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http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/History_Max_Manfrin
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= Plan (future work) =
  
= Plan (future work) =
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* Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization
  
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== Milestone I: Jan - Mar 2006==
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* Acquire practical experience in explicit parallelization on ACO algorithms
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** Start from sequential ACOTSP and implement various MPI variants
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*** Sync
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**** Multicolony - fully-connected
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***** colony 0 identifies the best colony; best colony broadcast its bsf solution
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***** colony 0 identifies the best colony and the worst colony; best colony send its bsf solution to worst colony
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**** Multicolony - ring
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***** unidirectional ring
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**** Multicolony - hypercube
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***** 3D hypercube
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**** Single colony, multi local search
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*** Async
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**** Multicolony - completly-connected
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***** colony 0 identifies the best colony; best colony broadcast its bsf solution
  +
***** colony 0 identifies the best colony and the worst colony; best colony send its bsf solution to worst colony
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**** Multicolony - ring
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***** unidirectional ring
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**** Multicolony - hypercube
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***** 3D hypercube
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* Paper submission to ANTS 2006 of "explicit parallelization of ACOTSP"
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* By end of March decision if and how to extend the paper for possible Journal article
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* By end of March decision if proceed with MPI version of ILK-H + ACOTSP
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* Find the sentence that explain what the PhD thesis is about (what is the contribution of this thesis?)
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** 1. Parallelization of ACO on multi-core architectures ?
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** 2. Parallelization of ACO on collection of interesting problems?
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==Milestone II: Apr - Jun 2006==
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* Development and empirical test of different communication schemes among colonies
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<pre>
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The i.a.k identify how often we do communication among colonies.
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The law used to generate the periods is SQRT[(10)^(i+1)], so
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i = 1 --> T = 10
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i = 2 --> T = 31
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i = 3 --> T = 100
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i = 4 --> T = 316
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i = 5 --> T = 1000
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i = 6 --> T = 3162
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i = 7 --> T = 10000
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i = 8 --> T = 31622
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i = 9 --> T = 100000
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The jth exchange happens at iteration
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T * (1 - 0.a^j)/(1 - 0.a) IF (int)[x_j - x_(j-1)] > k
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x_j =
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k OTHERWISE
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</pre>
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* Start from sequential ACOTSP and implement various MPI variants
  +
** Sync
  +
*** Multicolony - ring
  +
**** unidirectional ring
  +
***** 4.8.10
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***** 4.9.10
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***** 5.8.10
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***** 5.9.10
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***** 6.8.10
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***** 6.9.10
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***** 7.6.10
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***** 7.7.10
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* Transfer the knowledge and experience on TSP to other problems
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** Collaboration with Marco Caserta on parallel ACO for Set Covering Problem
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*** he doesn't use ACO for SCP, but I've helped him anyway to parallelize his own primal-dual algorithm
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** Collaboration with Daniele Catanzaro on parallel ACO for phylogeny reconstruction
  +
*** Start from sequential ACO algorithm and implemented MPI variant
  +
**** Sync
  +
***** Multicolony - fully-connected
  +
****** colony 0 identifies the best colony; best colony broadcast its bsf solution
  +
** Identify possible problems for which IRIDIA has expertise and state-of-the-art ACO algo as starting points (Scheduling: Blum, QAP: Thomas)
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*** QAP: start from sequential MMASQAP and implement various MPI variants (in total we consider 72 algo)
  +
**** Factor 1: Connection topology
  +
***** Multicolony - fully-connected
  +
****** colony 0 identifies the best colony; best colony broadcast its bsf solution
  +
****** colony 0 identifies the best colony and the worst colony; best colony send its bsf solution to worst colony
  +
***** Multicolony - ring
  +
****** unidirectional ring
  +
***** Multicolony - hypercube
  +
****** 3D hypercube
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**** Factor 2: Communication schema
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***** Sync
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****** 1.x.10 (constant gap of 10 iterations)
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****** 2.9.10
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****** 2.8.10
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****** 2.7.10
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****** 2.6.10
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****** 3.9.10
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****** 3.8.10
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****** 3.7.10
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****** 3.6.10
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**** Factor 3: Local Search
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***** 2-opt
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***** tabu search
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==Milestone III: Jul - Sep 2006==
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* Tech Report on TSP and QAP experiments
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** decision if and how to extend the paper for possible journal article
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* Literature survey on parallel ACO algorithms (version 3)
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* Acquire practical experience in implicit parallelization on ACO algorithms
  +
** Start from sequential ACOTSP and implement various OpenMP variants
  +
*** Sync ( i.e. implicit barrier in for directives)
  +
*** Async (i.e use of the nowait clause)
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* ? Paper on "implicit vs explicit parallelization of ACOTSP"
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==Milestone IV: Oct - Dec 2006==
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==Milestone V: Jan - Mar 2007==
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==Milestone VI: Apr - Jun 2007==
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==Milestone VII: Jul - Sep 2007==
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* Write PhD thesis
   
 
= Goals =
  
= Goals =
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* Investigate the effects of parallelization on ACO algorithms
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* Investigate the effect of parallelization on Ant Colony Optimization algorithms
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* Acquire practical experience in parallelization on ACO algorithms (both explicit and implicit parallelism)
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* Implicit parallelism is the new trend (multi core CPUs), not much work has been done on them yet
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= Things to do =
  
= Things to do =
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! Description !! Start date !! Deadline !! Time required !! status
  
! Description !! Start date !! Deadline !! Time required !! status
 
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| Process-level parallelization of ACOTSP using OpenMPI|| Nov 14, 2005 || Dec 4, 2005 || ~3 weeks || In progress
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| Study OpenMP || Jan 9, 2005 || || ongoing process || In progress
 
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| '''Implicit parallelization of ACOTSP using OpenMP''' || - || - || - || Need a compiler
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| Experiments on large instances of ParACOTSP|| Dec 4, 2005 || Dec 11, 2005 || ~1 weeks || Not yet started
  
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|-
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| Parallel ACO survey v3 || Jul 1, 2006 || Aug 31, 2006 || ||
 
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| Thread-level parallelization of ACOTSP using OpenMP|| Dec 4, 2005 || Dec 25, 2005 || ~3 weeks || Not yet started
  
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== Weekly planning ==
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{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2
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! Description !! Start date !! Deadline !! Completion date !! status !! Note
 
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| Experiments on large instances of ParACOTSP|| Dec 27, 2005 || Dec 30, 2005 || ~1 weeks || Not yet started
  
 
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= Seminars participation =
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! Title !! Author !! Location !! Dates
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| IRIDIA Optimization meeting ||Ch. 4 of the book to present || || Apr 27, 2006
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= Events participation =
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{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2
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! Event !! Location !! Dates
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= Papers to write =
  
= Papers to write =
   
 
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! Title !! Journal/Conference targeted !! Start date !! Submission deadline
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! Title !! Journal/Conference targeted !! Submission deadline
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|-
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| A Survey of Parallel ACO algorithms || N.A. || N.A.
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|-
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| Thread-level parallelization of ACOTSP || N.A. || N.A.
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|}
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= Referee activities =
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== International journals ==
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{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2
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! Journal !! # papers !! paper received on !! review to submit before
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== International conferences ==
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{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2
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! Conference !! # papers !! paper received on !! review to submit before
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= IRIDIA chores =
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! Chore !! assigned !! status
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| Update Dorigo website with Master, DEA, and PhD thesis data || Feb 2, 2006 || done
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|-
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| Create a Wiki page with list of all the software we have for the Mac with #licenses and where they are installed || Apr 21, 2006 ||
 
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| A Survey of Parallel ACO algorithms || N.A. || N.A. || N.A.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 21:38, 6 July 2006

History (past work)

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/History_Max_Manfrin


Plan (future work)

Milestone I: Jan - Mar 2006

  • Acquire practical experience in explicit parallelization on ACO algorithms
    • Start from sequential ACOTSP and implement various MPI variants
      • Sync
        • Multicolony - fully-connected
          • colony 0 identifies the best colony; best colony broadcast its bsf solution
          • colony 0 identifies the best colony and the worst colony; best colony send its bsf solution to worst colony
        • Multicolony - ring
          • unidirectional ring
        • Multicolony - hypercube
          • 3D hypercube
        • Single colony, multi local search
      • Async
        • Multicolony - completly-connected
          • colony 0 identifies the best colony; best colony broadcast its bsf solution
          • colony 0 identifies the best colony and the worst colony; best colony send its bsf solution to worst colony
        • Multicolony - ring
          • unidirectional ring
        • Multicolony - hypercube
          • 3D hypercube
  • Paper submission to ANTS 2006 of "explicit parallelization of ACOTSP"
  • By end of March decision if and how to extend the paper for possible Journal article
  • By end of March decision if proceed with MPI version of ILK-H + ACOTSP
  • Find the sentence that explain what the PhD thesis is about (what is the contribution of this thesis?)
    • 1. Parallelization of ACO on multi-core architectures ?
    • 2. Parallelization of ACO on collection of interesting problems?


Milestone II: Apr - Jun 2006

  • Development and empirical test of different communication schemes among colonies
The i.a.k identify how often we do communication among colonies. 

The law used to generate the periods is SQRT[(10)^(i+1)], so
i = 1 --> T = 10
i = 2 --> T = 31
i = 3 --> T = 100
i = 4 --> T = 316
i = 5 --> T = 1000
i = 6 --> T = 3162
i = 7 --> T = 10000
i = 8 --> T = 31622
i = 9 --> T = 100000

The jth exchange happens at iteration


      T * (1 - 0.a^j)/(1 - 0.a)  IF (int)[x_j - x_(j-1)] > k
x_j = 
      k                          OTHERWISE
  • Start from sequential ACOTSP and implement various MPI variants
    • Sync
      • Multicolony - ring
        • unidirectional ring
          • 4.8.10
          • 4.9.10
          • 5.8.10
          • 5.9.10
          • 6.8.10
          • 6.9.10
          • 7.6.10
          • 7.7.10
  • Transfer the knowledge and experience on TSP to other problems
    • Collaboration with Marco Caserta on parallel ACO for Set Covering Problem
      • he doesn't use ACO for SCP, but I've helped him anyway to parallelize his own primal-dual algorithm
    • Collaboration with Daniele Catanzaro on parallel ACO for phylogeny reconstruction
      • Start from sequential ACO algorithm and implemented MPI variant
        • Sync
          • Multicolony - fully-connected
            • colony 0 identifies the best colony; best colony broadcast its bsf solution
    • Identify possible problems for which IRIDIA has expertise and state-of-the-art ACO algo as starting points (Scheduling: Blum, QAP: Thomas)
      • QAP: start from sequential MMASQAP and implement various MPI variants (in total we consider 72 algo)
        • Factor 1: Connection topology
          • Multicolony - fully-connected
            • colony 0 identifies the best colony; best colony broadcast its bsf solution
            • colony 0 identifies the best colony and the worst colony; best colony send its bsf solution to worst colony
          • Multicolony - ring
            • unidirectional ring
          • Multicolony - hypercube
            • 3D hypercube
        • Factor 2: Communication schema
          • Sync
            • 1.x.10 (constant gap of 10 iterations)
            • 2.9.10
            • 2.8.10
            • 2.7.10
            • 2.6.10
            • 3.9.10
            • 3.8.10
            • 3.7.10
            • 3.6.10
        • Factor 3: Local Search
          • 2-opt
          • tabu search

Milestone III: Jul - Sep 2006

  • Tech Report on TSP and QAP experiments
    • decision if and how to extend the paper for possible journal article
  • Literature survey on parallel ACO algorithms (version 3)
  • Acquire practical experience in implicit parallelization on ACO algorithms
    • Start from sequential ACOTSP and implement various OpenMP variants
      • Sync ( i.e. implicit barrier in for directives)
      • Async (i.e use of the nowait clause)
  • ? Paper on "implicit vs explicit parallelization of ACOTSP"

Milestone IV: Oct - Dec 2006

Milestone V: Jan - Mar 2007

Milestone VI: Apr - Jun 2007

Milestone VII: Jul - Sep 2007

  • Write PhD thesis

Goals

  • Investigate the effect of parallelization on Ant Colony Optimization algorithms
  • Acquire practical experience in parallelization on ACO algorithms (both explicit and implicit parallelism)
  • Implicit parallelism is the new trend (multi core CPUs), not much work has been done on them yet


Things to do

Description Start date Deadline Time required status
Study OpenMP Jan 9, 2005 ongoing process In progress
Implicit parallelization of ACOTSP using OpenMP - - - Need a compiler
Parallel ACO survey v3 Jul 1, 2006 Aug 31, 2006


Weekly planning

Description Start date Deadline Completion date status Note

Seminars participation

Title Author Location Dates
IRIDIA Optimization meeting Ch. 4 of the book to present Apr 27, 2006

Events participation

Event Location Dates


Papers to write

Title Journal/Conference targeted Submission deadline
A Survey of Parallel ACO algorithms N.A. N.A.
Thread-level parallelization of ACOTSP N.A. N.A.


Referee activities

International journals

Journal # papers paper received on review to submit before


International conferences

Conference # papers paper received on review to submit before

IRIDIA chores

Chore assigned status
Update Dorigo website with Master, DEA, and PhD thesis data Feb 2, 2006 done
Create a Wiki page with list of all the software we have for the Mac with #licenses and where they are installed Apr 21, 2006
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