Re: parallel NMinimize[]
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- Subject: [mg50614] Re: parallel NMinimize[]
- From: "Michal Kvasnicka" <michal.kvasnicka at No_s_Pam.quick.cz>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:19:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Czech Technical University
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Robert, if your problem has extremely time consuming objective function (like FEM) you must focus on complete different methods. The standard differential evolution (via NMinimize) is not suitable for this kind of optimization problems. A very powerful method is SNOBFIT, for example. For more details see: http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/software/snobfit/ In this time the SNOBFIT is not implemented in Mathematica, but I think that this task is not very difficult. On the other hand, way not to make Mathematica package for global optimization of the extremely time consuming objective functions. Think about it...!!! Regards, Michal > > > hi mark, hi michal > > thank you for your contributions, > mark, yes this could be a way, .... > > but first of all i dont own a parallel grid version of Mathematica. > second its not the NMinimize aktion thats time consuming its the > evaluation of the objective function which is extreme time consuming > consisting on FEM calculations by an linux based FEM package. so the > natural way would be try to calculate the function values parallel on > a linux cluster (which i have access to). > > by the time i got some hints from dan lichtblau perhaps its posssible > for me to modify the NMinimize behavier. > > regards robert >