Using genetic algorithms may also work for your case. See http://jgap.sourceforge.net/ This one supports grid environment execution too.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:48 PM, John Bergstrom <hillstr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me if Hadoop is appropriate for the following application. > > I need to perform optimization using a single, small input data set. > To get a good result I must make many independent runs of the > optimizer, where each run is initiated with a different starting > point. At completion, I just choose the best solution from all of the > runs. So my problem is not that I'm working with big data, I just want > to speed up my run time by linking several Ubuntu desktops that are > available to me. The optimizer is written in ANSI C. > > Thanks, > > John >
