Evolutionary Mechanics

Following the Project Description. It uses an evolutionary algorithm to develop ideal mechanical structures and runs in a distributed manner using OpenMP and MPI.

Instructions

In order to run in Bridges, due to the dependency on C++17, make sure you run module load gcc/9.2.0 first.

• The latest, distributed, parallelized and most optimized version is contained on the root folder, and the follow steps must be followed:

  1. Make sure you have the MPI module available using mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.6.4 using module add mpi/openmpi-x86_64
  2. make
  3. mkdir debug in case you want to see the output of the program
  4. mpirun -np X build/program <N> <Organisms> <Epochs> <Decay> (recommend 10 100 1000 0.995f)

• The sequential implementations and the basic parallelized implementation are all contained in their own folder. Please, use the following steps:

  1. cd version_to_execute
  2. make
  3. mkdir debug in case you want to see the output of the program
  4. build/program <N> <Organisms> <Epochs> <Decay> (recommend 10 100 1000 0.995f)

Directory Structure

/evolutionary_mechanics
|-- /basic_parallel_implementation
|-- /basic_sequential_implementation
|-- /best_optimized_sequential_implementation
|-- /jobFiles (jobs submitted)
|-- /slurm (contains slurm outputs)
|-- /src (contains the source code of the best optimized parallel implementation)
|-- report.pdf
|-- /latex (source code of our reports)
|   |
|   |-- /description
|   |-- /performance
|   |-- /progressReport
|   |-- /report
|   |-- /sources