Parallel simulated annealing for solving the room assignment problem on shared and distributed memory platforms

  • Authors:
  • Milena Lazarova

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University of Sofia

  • Venue:
  • CompSysTech '08 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies and Workshop for PhD Students in Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The paper is aimed at investigating the efficiency and quality of solutions of parallel simulated annealing on shared memory and distributed memory computer platforms for solving the room assignment problem. The parallel computational model for shared memory system utilizes concurrent generation and evaluation of moves by OpenMP based multithreading. Asynchronous and synchronous moves generation based on combination of functional and data parallelism are utilized for parallel computations using message passing on a distributed memory platform. Parallelism profiling and scalability analyses both in respect of the size of the parallel platform and the problem workload are presented.