The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is computationally expensive to evaluate. It can, however, be readily decomposed into subproblems that can be computed in parallel. Developing a distributed program taking advantage of such a decomposition, however, remains a difficult problem.
We developed such a distributed program to compute the TSP solutions, using a new set of distributed program performance tools to better understand our TSP program. These tools allowed us to discover the performance bottlenecks in our program and to revise the program to significantly improve its execution speed.
Title
The Traveling Salesman Problem: The Development of a Distributed Computation
Published
1984-12-01
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
CSD-84-212
Type
Text
Extent
15 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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