PASS is written in C++14 and uses Armadillo (developed by Conrad Sanderson et al., NICTA, Australia) for highly efficient linear algebra calculations.

Prerequirements

GCC 4.8.1 or later
CMake 3.2 or later
Armadillo C++ 8.200.0 or later

Installation

Linux Installation

The following commands are based on Ubuntu, using apt-get. If you are using another Linux distributions, the names of each package might also differ.

If you are using any recent Linux distribution, you should already be equipped with a C++11 feature complete compiler, like GCC 4.8.1+

Install Cmake

sudo apt-get install cmake

Install Armadillo C++ with OpenBLAS support (visit Armadillo’s download page to find more information on how to use other implementations of BLAS and LAPACK):

sudo apt-get install cmake

Download and install PASS

git clone --depth 1 --branch master https://github.com/SRAhub/PASS.git
cd PASS
cmake .
make
sudo make install

MacOS Installation

The following commands are based on Homebrew, a package manager for OS X.

Install Cmake

brew install cmake

Install GCC

brew install gcc

Install Armadillo

brew install armadillo

Download and install PASS

git clone --depth 1 --branch master https://github.com/SRAhub/PASS.git
cd PASS
cmake .
make
sudo make install

If you don't want to use the MacOS CLANG compiler, you have to change it to the gcc compiler: open *.bash_profiles* and paste the following code (if you are using GCC 7.*)

# Modify system PATH for new GNU compiler install
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
alias gcc='gcc-7'
alias cc='gcc-7'
alias g++='g++-7'
alias c++='c++-7'

Implemented Algorithms

Parallel Swarm Search (own)
Standard Particle Swarm Optimisation 2011
Random Search

Implemented Problems

Optimisation Benchmark Problems
- Ackley Function
- De Jong's Function
- Griewank Function
- Rastrigin Function
- Rosenbrock Function
- Schwefel Function
- Styblinski-Tang Function
- Sum of Different Powers Function
Space Mission Problems

License

Distributed under MIT license.

Credits

Big thanks goes to Sebastian Niemann helping during the development.