Prerequisite

Install Message Passing Interface (MPI):

sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin openmpi-common libopenmpi-dev openmpi-doc

Or build from either of these sources:

https://www.mpich.org/downloads/

https://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v4.1/

Compile

git clone https://github.com/SensorAnalyticsAus/Simple_GA_parallel.git
cd Simple_GA_parallel/
make
make clean

Run

For quad core processor:

mpirun -np 4 ./sga_parr

The number of processors, -np, should be set equal to the number of cores of your CPU.

Settings

SGA parameters are set in sga3.var

Acknowledgements

This C code is based upon D.E. Goldberg's Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimisation and Machine Learning 1989. MPI parallelisation by N. Zaidi 2016.