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An interesting article has been posted over at Linux Magazine. The article interests me mainly because it gets to the heart of an issue that I myself ponder over: As hardware overtakes software, how will software catch up? This is a very important question, especially in the HPC world as there is no single language that elegantly translates across multiple architectures.


Read the rest of the article here.

Central Force Optimization (CFO) is a new and interesting optimization method that has been developed by Richard A. Formato. The most interesting aspect of CFO is that it is fully deterministic unlike PSO, GA, AIS, or any of the other PIS based techniques.

The papers that he has produced on the topic can be found at:

1. Are Near Earth Objects the Key to Optimization Theory?
2. Central Force Optimization: A New Metaheuristic with Applications in Applied Electromagnetics
3. Central Force Optimization: A New Nature Inspired Computational Framework for Multidimensional Search and Optimization
4. Central Force Optimization: A New Deterministic Gradient -like Optimization  Metaheuristic
5. Comparative Results: Group Search Optimizer and Central Force Optimization
6. Pseudorandomness in Central Force Optimization
7. Central Force Optimization Applied to the PBM Suite of Antenna Benchmarks

And, for all of those interested, click here to download my C++ and Matlab implementations.