A parallel Bees Algorithm implementation on GPU

• Published in: Journal of systems architecture Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 271 - 279
• Main Authors: Luo, Guo-Heng, Huang, Sheng-Kai, Chang, Yue-Shan, Yuan, Shyan-Ming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.03.2014; Elsevier Sequoia S.A
• Subjects: Algorithms; Architecture (computers); Bees; Bees Algorithm; Computer architecture; Cuba; CUDA; GPGPU; Honey; Mathematical problems; Optimization; Optimization algorithms; Parallel Bees Algorithm; Parallel processing; Running; Studies; Swarm intelligence; CUDA; Swarm intelligence; Bees Algorithm; GPGPU; Parallel Bees Algorithm
• ISSN: 1383-7621; 1873-6165
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2013.09.007

Bees Algorithm is a population-based method that is a computational bound algorithm whose inspired by the natural behavior of honey bees to finds a near-optimal solution for the search problem. Recently, many parallel swarm based algorithms have been developed for running on GPU (Graphic Processing Unit). Since nowadays developing a parallel Bee Algorithm running on the GPU becomes very important. In this paper, we extend the Bees Algorithm (CUBA (i.e. CUDA based Bees Algorithm)) in order to be run on the CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture). CUBA (CUDA based Bees Algorithm). We evaluate the performance of CUBA by conducting some experiments based on numerous famous optimization problems. Results show that CUBA significantly outperforms standard Bees Algorithm in numerous different optimization problems.