The GA was run over a period of 45 days with a population size of 16,384 on the Monash PPME. The PPME consisted of the following processors at the time of running:

32 x 350 MHz Pentium II processors

8 x 500 MHz Pentium III processors

The population was split into 64 batches of 256 chromosomes each. 2,134 generations were evolved, which equates to 34,963,456 cost evaluations. The resulting cost was 652, which is 7 points better than the previous best of 659 that was achieved using a non-parallel GA. The GA was stopped due to low diversity in the population and time constraints. In the future we hope to run an experiment with a population size of 32,768 to further improve the result.