Title :
Implementing a population-based harmony search algorithm on graphic processing units
Author :
Al-Ajmi, Khaled ; El-Abd, Mohammed
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., American Univ. of Kuwait, Safat, Kuwait
Abstract :
In this paper, we accelerate the performance of the population-based harmony search algorithm using a simple implementation under MATLAB on graphic processing units (GPUs). The implementation is tested on several well-known benchmark functions providing a considerable speedup over both the sequential and CPU-parallel implementations.
Keywords :
graphics processing units; parallel programming; search problems; CPU-parallel implementations; GPUs; MATLAB; graphic processing units; population-based harmony search algorithm; sequential implementations; Acceleration; Computers; Graphics processing units; Particle swarm optimization; Sociology; Statistics; computational algorithms; graphic processing units; hardware acceleration; harmony search; parallel programming;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2014 IEEE 27th Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3099-9
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2014.6900994
