Algorithms Explained

Propulate’s centerpiece is a fully asynchronous parallelization and communication scheme for population-based optimization algorithms. Our lazy synchronization approach enables massive parallelism while minimizing idle times and thus energy waste on modern supercomputers.

Click one of the items below to obtain a short introduction to population-based optimization algorithms or find out how Propulate’s innovative parallelization scheme works.

• Population-Based Algorithms
• Let’s Go Parallel
• The Island Model

Algorithms in Propulate

Click one of the items below to find out more about population-based algorithms in general or the algorithms provided in Propulate.

• Overview
• Evolutionary Algorithms
• Particle Swarm Optimization
• Covariance Matrix Adaption Evolution Strategy
• Nelder-Mead Optimization