pCMALib swMATH ID: 25049 Software Authors: Mueller, C. Baumgartner, B. Ofenbeck, G. Schrader, B. Sbalzarini, I. Description: pCMALib: a parallel fortran 90 library for the evolution strategy with covariance matrix adaptation. We present pCMALib, a parallel software library that implements the Evolution Strategy with Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA-ES). The library is written in Fortran 90/95 and uses the Message Passing Interface (MPI) for efficient parallelization on shared and distributed memory machines. It allows single CMA-ES optimization runs, embarrassingly parallel CMA-ES runs, and coupled parallel CMA-ES runs using a cooperative island model. As one instance of an island model CMA-ES, the recently presented Particle Swarm CMA-ES (PS-CMA-ES) is included using collaborative concepts from Swarm Intelligence for the migration model. Special attention has been given to an efficient design of the MPI communication protocol, a modular software architecture, and a user-friendly programming interface. The library includes a Matlab interface and is supplemented with an efficient Fortran implementation of the official CEC 2005 set of 25 real-valued benchmark functions. This is the first freely available Fortran implementation of this standard benchmark test suite. We present test runs and parallel scaling benchmarks on Linux clusters and multi-core desktop computers, showing good parallel efficiencies and superior computational performance compared to the reference implementation. Homepage: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1570090 Source Code: https://github.com/muellsen/pCMALib Related Software: PyKEP; p-MEMPSODE; NDL; VTDIRECT95; PaGMO/PyGMO; TINKER; NOMAD; MOCell; CEC 05; DREAM; PMF; OpenCL; ECJ; EASEA; OPT4J; HeuristicLab; JDeal; MOEA/D; MPI; dgpf Cited in: 2 Publications all top 5 Cited by 9 Authors 1 Alba, Enrique 1 Hadjidoukas, Panagiotis E. 1 Lagaris, Isaac E. 1 Luque, Gabriel 1 Nesmachnow, Sergio 1 Papageorgiou, D. G. 1 Parsopoulos, Konstantinos E. 1 Voglis, Constantinos A. 1 Vrahatis, Michael N. Cited in 2 Serials 1 Computer Physics Communications 1 International Transactions in Operational Research Cited in 2 Fields 2 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 1 Numerical analysis (65-XX) Citations by Year