Ganesh Hegde

Objective/Problem:

• To Build a Generic Optimization engine within Rappture Framework.
• To Enable Automatic optimization for all Rappture based nanoHUB.org tools.

Approach:

• Use existing software for basic GA framework.
• Modify Rappture framework to include the optmization API.
• Use API to make Rappture talk to PGAPack.

Results:

• Demonstrated sequential optimization of Quantum dot absorption plot.
• Parallelization enables solving of sequentially intractable problems in orders of magnitude lesser time.

Desired Impact:

• First generic parallel optimization package with programmable fitness functions.
• Plug any simulation tool into the Rappture framework in order to solve optimization problems on the nanoHUB.