GECCO 2010 Around the Bend, GECCO 2011 Gearing Up
GECCO 2010 is getting ready to open July 7th at Portland (Oregon). But GECCO does not sleep and the 2011 edition is gearing up to take the torch after Portland. There is currently an announcement “GECCO 2011: Call for New Frontiers Track Proposals”. The deadline is June 30th, and you can get more information at [...]
LCS & GBML Central Gets a New Home
Today I finished migrating the LCS & GBML Central site from its original URL (http://lcs-gbml.ncsa.uiuc.edu) to a more permanent and stable home located at http://gbml.org. The original site is already currently redirecting the trafic to the new site, and it will be doing so for a while to help people transition and update bookmarks and [...]
Scaling eCGA Model Building via Data-Intensive Computing
I just uploaded the technical report of the paper we put together for CEC 2010 on how we can scale up eCGA using a MapReduce approach. The paper, besides exploring the Hadoop implementation, it also presents some very compelling results obtained with MongoDB (a document based store able to perform parallel MapReduce tasks via sharding). [...]
Soaring the Clouds with Meandre
You may find the slide deck and the abstract for the presentation we delivered today at the “Data-Intensive Research: how should we improve our ability to use data” workshop in Edinburgh. Abstract This talk will focus a highly scalable data intensive infrastructure being developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA) at the University [...]
