NDLI: Serial PSO results are irrelevant in a multi-core parallel world

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	McNabb, A. Seppi, K.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA (McNabb, A.; Seppi, K.)
Abstract	From multi-core processors to parallel GPUs to computing clusters, computing resources are increasingly parallel. These parallel resources are being used to address increasingly challenging applications. This presents an opportunity to design optimization algorithms that use parallel processors efficiently. In spite of the intuitively parallel nature of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), most PSO variants are not evaluated from a parallel perspective and introduce extra communication and bottlenecks that are inefficient in a parallel environment. We argue that the standard practice of evaluating a PSO variant by reporting function values with respect to the number of function evaluations is inadequate for evaluating PSO in a parallel environment. Evaluating the parallel performance of a PSO variant instead requires reporting function values with respect to the number of iterations to show how the algorithm scales with the number of processors, along with an implementation-independent description of task interactions and communication. Furthermore, it is important to acknowledge the dependence of performance on specific properties of the objective function and computational resources. We discuss parallel evaluation of PSO, and we review approaches for increasing concurrency and for reducing communication which should be considered when discussing the scalability of a PSO variant. This discussion is essential both for designers who are defending the performance of an algorithm and for practitioners who are determining how to apply PSO for a given objective function and parallel environment.
Starting Page	3143
Ending Page	3150
File Size	427759
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479914883
DOI	10.1109/CEC.2014.6900226
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-07-06
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Program processors Linear programming Topology Concurrent computing Particle swarm optimization Equations Benchmark testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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