Using dropbox for distributed evolutionary computation

Assessing Speed-ups In Commodity Cloud Storage Services For

Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms

Maribel García-Arenas, Juan-J. Merelo Antonio M. Mora, Pedro Castillo,

Gustavo Romero, JLJ Laredo

GeNeura groupUniversity of Granada (Spain)

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What do clouds smell like?

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How can I use cloud storage for distributed evolutionary algoritms?

If possible, for free!

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We will find out in this paper

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What we will do

Describe Dropbox, a cloud storage/synchronization system

How we implement a distributed evolutionary algorithm over this system

Raw speedup measures over several computers

Differences between connection modes.

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A thunderstorm of experiments

1 to 4 different computers.

Gigabit Ethernet or WiFi + WPA connection

Dropbox updated to latest version

MMDP and Trap

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Dropbox

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Cloudy, with a

chance of evolution

Single individual

Evaluations/node

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Trapped in the clouds

Ethernet

WiFi

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MMDP

Ethernet

WiFi

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Conclusions

Dropbox can be used for distributing evolutionary algorithms

Load balancing is automatic.

Network matters

Good scaling

Will it mean a better

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Thanks for your attention

Any questions?

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