This competition focuses on the applications of genetic and evolutionary computation that can maximally exploit the parallelism provided by low-cost consumer graphical cards. The competition will award the best applications both in terms of degree of parallelism obtained, in terms of overall speed-up, and in terms of programming style.

Submissions should be mailed to gecco2009@gpgpgpu.com no later than June 23, 2009. The final scores will be announced during GECCO. More information is available at the following sites.

http://www.gpgpgpu.com/gecco2009/
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/competitions.html

Entrants must submit (1) the application source code with instructions to compile it and (2) a two-page description of the application. Submissions will be reviewed by a committee of researchers from the evolutionary computation community and from industry. Each reviewer will score the submission according to 12 criteria concerning the submitted algorithm, the speed-up it achieves, and its impact on the evolutionary computation community. The total score will be obtained as the weighted sum of the 12 separate scores.