March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
476 pages
14h 28m
English
book
Optimization Techniques for Solving Complex Problems
by Enrique Alba, Christian Blum, Pedro Asasi, Coromoto Leon, Juan Antonio Gomez
Content preview from Optimization Techniques for Solving Complex Problems
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
CHAPTER 19
Application of Cellular Automata Algorithms to the Parallel Simulation of Laser Dynamics
J. L. GUISADO and F. JIMÉNEZ-MORALES
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
J. M. GUERRA
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
F. FERNÁNDEZ
Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
19.1 INTRODUCTION
In this chapter we review the use of a biologically inspired heuristic technique—cellular automata (CA)—as a problem solver for one of the most paradigmatic complex systems: the laser. CAs are a class of mathematical system that can be used to model spatiotemporal phenomena, characterized by the discreteness of all of its variables: space, time, and normally state variables. An important property of CAs is their intrinsic parallel character. Therefore, they are specially well suited to be implemented very efficiently on parallel computers.
In this work we also exploit this property to carry out a parallel implementation of the CA model developed for laser dynamics. In addition, we study the performance and scalability of this parallel implementation and conclude that it is very satisfactory. In particular, we have described a CA-based algorithm which is an alternative to model the dynamics of lasers, normally modeled using differential equations. This approach can be very useful for modeling lasers in situations in which the differential equations are difficult to integrate, or even difficult to apply: ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.