*** GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation *** http://www.gpgpgpu.com/gecco2009/ A COMPETITION OF GECCO-2009 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 23 June 2009 2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009) July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday) Delta Centre-Ville Hotel Montréal, Canada Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009 We are pleased to announce the official start of the GPU competition of GECCO-2009 with the publication of the competition rules and the scoring system. This competition focuses on the applications of genetic and evolutionary computation that can maximally exploit the parallelism provided by low-cost consumer graphical cards. The competition will award the best applications both in terms of degree of parallelism obtained, in terms of overall speed-up, and in terms of programming style. Entrants must submit (1) the application sources with the instructions to compile it and (2) a two pages description of the application. Submissions will be reviewed by a committee of researchers from the evolutionary computation community and from industry. Each reviewer will score the submission according to 12 criteria concerning the submitted algorithm, the speed-up it achieves, and its impact on the evolutionary computation community. The total score will be obtained as the weighted sum of the 12 separate scores. Submissions should be mailed to gecco2009@gpgpgpu.com no later than June 23, 2009. The final scores will be announced during GECCO. More information is available at: http://www.gpgpgpu.com/gecco2009/ http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/competitions.html *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - Submission deadline: June 23st 2009 - Conference: July 8th-12th 2009 *** ORGANIZERS *** - Simon Harding, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada - David Luebke, NVIDIA - Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano - Edmondo Orlotti, NVIDIA - Antonino Tumeo, Politecnico di Milano