Dealing with Swarm Intelligence on GPUs

Abstract

Nowadays, any personal computer includes a GPU that allows to use its parallelism to speedup computations. Unfortunately, it is not a trivial task to take advantage of such parallel architectures. In this paper, we present a library of swarm intelligence metaheuristics providing automatic parallelizations. The library is freely available, it is implemented by using CUDA, and it includes parallel versions of metaheuristics for both continuous and discrete domains. We show the basic ideas of the parallelization of one of the metaheuristics, and we prove its usefulness by presenting empirical results.