Re: GA ver. Parallel tempering


Lionel B wrote:

To clarify the point I was making: since both SA and GAs are serial
algorithms when implemented on a serial machine, whether they are
"parallelisable" or not is irrelevant; the comparison *is* valid *on a
serial machine*. On a true parallel architecture, where solutions may be
evaluated simultaneously, the comparison would indeed *not* be fair.


I never said that parallel tempering needs to run on parallel machines
to be efficient. The word "parallel" in "parallel tempering" is not
related to the hardware but to the
algorithm.

Dov

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Lionel B

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