Repeats and parallel computing

By default, GADMA runs optimization that uses Genetic algorithm once. However, it is recommended to run optimization several times and choose the best model among the resieved ones. Option Number of repeats in the parameter file tells GADMA how many times an optimization should be executed. Moreover, there is another option Number of processes that allows GADMA to run all the processes in parallel.

# param_file
...
Number of repeats : 6
Number of processes : 2 # or 3 or 6
...

Note

GADMA parallelize exactly several runs, not every of them. So if one asks to repeat optimization twice and parallelize in more than 2 processes, only two processes will be used eventually.

Warning

Number of processes should be less than Number of repeats and it will be better if it is aliquot to the Number of repeats.

Note

Number of processes shouldn’t be greater than the number of kernels on one’s computer. Otherwise there will be no sense in parallelization.