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Generic Parallel Genetic Algorithm Framework for Protein Optimisation
Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Part II, Vol.7017(2), pp.64-73
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
11th International Conference, ICA3PP 2011, 11th (Melbourne, Australia, 24/10/2011–26/10/2011)
2011
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Abstract
Proteins are one of the most vital macromolecules on the cellular level. In order to understand the function of a protein, its structure needs to be determined. For this purpose, different computational approaches have been introduced. Genetic algorithms can be used to search the vast space of all possible conformations of a protein in order to find its native structure. A framework for design of such algorithms that is both generic, easy to use and performs fast on distributed systems may help further development of genetic algorithm based approaches. We propose such a framework based on a parallel master-slave model which is implemented in C++ and Message Passing interface. We evaluated its performance on distributed systems with a different number of processors and achieved a linear acceleration in proportion to the number of processing units.
Details
- Title
- Generic Parallel Genetic Algorithm Framework for Protein Optimisation
- Creators
- Lukas Folkman - Griffith UniversityWayne Pullan - Griffith UniversityBela Stantic - Griffith University
- Contributors
- Yang Xiang (Editor) - Deakin UniversityAlfredo Cuzzocrea (Editor) - University of CalabriaMichael Hobbs (Editor) - Deakin UniversityWanlei Zhou (Editor) - Deakin University
- Publication Details
- Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Part II, Vol.7017(2), pp.64-73
- Conference
- 11th International Conference, ICA3PP 2011, 11th (Melbourne, Australia, 24/10/2011–26/10/2011)
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 10
- Identifiers
- 991013341144602368
- Copyright
- © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding