http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/ en-us Copyright 2014, Stewart Adcock Wed, 02 Apr 2014 23:19:00 +0000 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 23:19:00 +0000 any Frog CMS The GAUL news feed from saa.dyndns.org. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification I am now offering a RSS feed for GAUL-based news from my website. This is a low volume feed. GAUL News RSS Feed If you are interested in the open-source GAUL GA library then you probably know what a RSS feed is! But just to be clear, this will allow you to keep track of the latest GAUL developments without regularly scanning the GAUL website for changes and without requiring you to subscribe to the GAUL developers' mailing list. Wed, 06 May 2009 14:21:37 +0000 http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/gaul-news-rss-feed.html http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/gaul-news-rss-feed.html Microsoft Windows is now a fully supported platform for GAUL. Therefore, a Visual Studio 2005 solution is included with the GAUL source code in CVS, allowing for simple compilation of GAUL for the Microsoft Windows platform. This solution should additionally work on the more recent Visual Studio 2008, and the forthcoming Visual Studio 2010. These files can be found in the “windows” subdirectory of the GAUL source code distribution. GAUL has always been readily portable, but now it is more immediately useful for developers of Windows software, or of other portable software that also needs to support Windows. Some minor features of GAUL are unavailable for Windows, but these are of minimal significance and do not limit the use of GAUL for practical use. The CVS archive may be browsed at: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=25766 GAUL’s CVS repository can be checked out through, password-less, anonymous (pserver) CVS: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@gaul.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gaul login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@gaul.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gaul co -P gaul-devel Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:53:48 +0000 http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/VisualStudioProjectInCvs.html http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/VisualStudioProjectInCvs.html In the middle-ages of computing, before Microsoft had developed their monopoly over the home desktop, a popular C compiler was Watcom. It had a fanatical following, partly as a result of its impressive performance on DOS for Intel’s popular 386 processors. The Watcom complier made many of the technically notable games of that era possible. These games included, for example, the revolutionary first-person shooter, Doom. By the mid-1990’s it also supported C++. By the turn of the century, however, Watcom trailed the other compilers in many respects and, after a slow decline, was discontinued as a commercial product. That, however, was not the end of the Watcom complier. An Open Source effort has revitalised it as Open Watcom. Now, Open Watcom is a complete cross-platform compiler and toolset for C, C++ and Fortran. GAUL, my Open Source genetic algorithm framework, can now be readily compiled using Open Watcom. (Actually, because GAUL is quite portable, it always could be, but there were a few minor bug-fixes and tweaks that were needed.) All files required for building GAUL with the Open Watcom IDE are provided in the “Watcom” subdirectory of the GAUL source code package. This is tested with Open Watcom version 1.7a. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:04:00 +0000 http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/GaulPortedToOpenWatcom.html http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/GaulPortedToOpenWatcom.html Reading, UK, April 22, 2005 — The GAUL project is proud to announce the latest release of GAUL – the Genetic Algorithm Utility Library, a leading open-source programming library for evolutionary computation. GAUL 0.1849 contains enhancements to portability and scalability along with several new features. The most significant new feature is an efficient implementation of Price and Storn’s Differential Evolution algorithm. Differential Evolution is a population-based, stochastic function optimiser using vector differences for perturbing the population. See http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~storn/code.html for further details. “GAUL’s implementation of Differential Evolution offers a powerful method for optimising vectors. Differential Evolution often exhibits a compelling performance advantage over conventional genetic algorithms,” says Stewart Adcock, Lead Developer of the GAUL project. “These new routines fit neatly within the pre-existing, simple and consistent API.” GAUL is fully supported on UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, and all core features are available on Microsoft Windows environments. GAUL is able to utilise a wide range of computer platforms including Beowulf-style clusters and supercomputers with support for the MPI and OpenMP parallel programming standards, the forked-process model, and the pthreads programming interface. GAUL is already applied in many valuable domains, including protein structure prediction and rational drug discovery. With this release, GAUL solidifies its position as one of the premier frameworks for evolutionary computation being freely available to all research scientists and software developers. About GAUL: The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library is an OSI certified [ http://www.opensource.org ] programming library for evolutionary computation. It is deployed in numerous academic institutions and corporations, on hardware ranging from low-end desktop PCs through to top supercomputers, in North America, Europe and Japan. Further information is available on the GAUL website [ http://gaul.sourceforge.net/ ], hosted by SourceForge.net [ http://sourceforge.net/ ]. Commercial licensing with professional support is available. GAUL is a copyrighted work released under the terms of the GNU General Public License [ http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html ]. GAUL and the GAUL logo are trademarks of Stewart Adcock. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. Microsoft and MS Windows are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation, Inc. in the United States and other countries. OpenMP is a trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and other countries worldwide. Other product or brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:39:25 +0000 http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/GaulPressRelease20050422.html http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/GaulPressRelease20050422.html San Diego, CA, June 28, 2004 — The GAUL project announces the latest release of GAUL – the Genetic Algorithm Utility Library, a leading open-source programming library for evolutionary computation. GAUL 0.1847 contains significant enhancements to its portability, scalability and features. GAUL is fully supported on UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, and all core features are available on Microsoft Windows environments. GAUL is able to take full advantage of the wide range of available computer platforms including Beowulf-style clusters and supercomputers. GAUL can now utilizes the MPI and OpenMP standards, the forked-process model, and the pthreads programming interface as appropriate for the system. GAUL is a feature-complete, and portable, framework for evolutionary computation,” says Stewart Adcock, Lead Developer of the GAUL project. “Being open-source offers several significant advantages to software projects that rely on GAUL for their search and optimization needs. It is straightforward to modify the built-in evolutionary algorithms, or even to implement entirely new algorithms, all within the simple and consistent API.” GAUL is already applied in many important domains, including protein structure prediction and rational drug discovery. With release of this new version, GAUL solidifies its position as one of the premier frameworks for evolutionary computation freely available to all research scientists and software developers. About GAUL: The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (or, GAUL for short) is an OSI certified programming library for evolutionary computation. It is a copyrighted work released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. GAUL is deployed in numerous academic institutions and corporations, on hardware ranging from low-end desktop PCs through to top 500 supercomputers, in North America, Europe and Japan. Further information is available on the GAUL website at http://gaul.sourceforge.net/ . Commercial licensing and support is available. GAUL and the GAUL logo are trademarks of Stewart Adcock. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. Microsoft and MS Windows are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation, Inc. in the United States and other countries. OpenMP is a trademark of of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and other countries worldwide. Other product or brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:46:16 +0000 http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/GaulPressRelease02240628.html http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/GaulPressRelease02240628.html San Diego, CA, August 27, 2003 — The GAUL project announces the latest release of GAUL – the Genetic Algorithm Utility Library, a leading open-source programming library for evolutionary computation. GAUL 0.1846 contains significant enhancements to its features and usability. This is the first version to officially support the MS Windows environment, in addition to the prior supported UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. An already impressive set of features are further enhanced by the new version of GAUL. Support for the MS Windows platform bolsters a long-time aim of the GAUL project to create a robust and portable framework for evolutionary algorithms. “Development of a native Windows version of GAUL is a major milestone,” says Stewart Adcock, Lead Developer of the GAUL project. “Programmers requiring a feature-complete, but portable, framework for evolutionary computation now have the open-source GAUL as a viable option.” GAUL is already applied in many important domains, including protein structure prediction and drug discovery. With release of this new version, GAUL becomes available to a larger community of research scientists and software developers. About GAUL: The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (or, GAUL for short) is an OSI certified programming library for evolutionary computation. It is a copyrighted work released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. GAUL is deployed in several institutions and corporations, on hardware ranging from low-end desktop PCs through to top 500 supercomputers, in North America, Europe and Japan. Further information is available on the GAUL website at http://gaul.sourceforge.net Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:32:10 +0000 http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/GaulPressrelease20030827.html http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart/Software/Gaul/GaulNews/GaulPressrelease20030827.html