The Scottish Boinc Team

Application for grillage optimization

his application was developed in collaboration with our colleagues from the VGTU Department of Information Technologies (Ph.D. student Mikalojus Ramanauskas and his supervisor Dr. Dmitrij Šešok).

Together with other colleagues, they are working on Civil Engineering problem - grillage optimization. They are studying the performance of various global optimization algorithms in the solution of this problem. See the references below for the definition of the problem and this video illustration.

This distributed computing application presents an attempt to employ more significant computational resources in their scientific research and study the performance of parallel/distributed global optimization algorithms.

List of scientific publications in Thomson Reuters Web of Science journals with Impact Factor

1. Ramanauskas Mikalojus; Šešok Dmitrij; Belevičius Rimantas; Kurilov Jevgenij; Valentinavičius Saulius. Genetic algorithm with modified crossover for grillage optimization. International journal of computers, communications and control. Bihor: CCC Publications. ISSN 1841-9836. Vol. 12, no. 3 (2017), p. 393-402. Link.

2. Mockus Jonas; Belevičius Rimantas; Šešok Dmitrij; Kaunas Juozas; Mačiūnas Darius. On Bayesian approach to grillage optimization. Information technology and control. Kauno technologijos universitetas. Kaunas: Technologija. ISSN 1392-124X. Vol. 41, no. 4 (2012), p. 332-339. Link.

3. Belevičius Rimantas; Ivanikovas Sergėjus; Šešok Dmitrij; Valentinavičius Saulius; Žilinskas Julius. Optimal placement of piles in real grillages: experimental comparison of optimization algorithms. Information technology and control. Kauno technologijos universitetas. Kaunas: Technologija. ISSN 1392-124X. Vol. 40, no. 2 (2011), p. 123-132. Link.

4. Šešok Dmitrij; Mockus Jonas; Belevičius Rimantas; Kačeniauskas Arnas. Global optimization of grillages using simulated annealing and high performance computing. Journal of civil engineering and management. ISSN 1392-3730. Vol. 16, no. 1 (2010), p. 95-101. Link.

5. Šešok Dmitrij; Belevičius Rimantas; Kačeniauskas Arnas; Mockus Jonas. Application of GRID computing for optimization of grillages. Mechanika. Kaunas: Technologija. ISSN 1392-1207. Vol. 82, no. 2, p. 63-69. Link.

Dear VGTU project@Home users,

We are constantly working on the current research problem.

Although, you don’t see changes in the client applications (versions are the same), generation of work and assimilation/processing of the results are changed from time to time.

After one of such changes, the bug was introduced into generation of tasks (workunits). We believe that we have fixed this bug in work generator on Monday, March 12. It seems that there are no problems with the tasks/workunits generated since then. However, some older erroneous work units may still be there… We don’t know exactly which to cancel them. Don’t worry, no time is lost: application simply fails to start and generates ERR_TOO_MANY_EXITS error after some number of trials.

The good news is that we have started to write a draft of the paper on the current research using our BOINC project.


With best regards,
The Project Team.