Repository containing a genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize the Lennard-Jones potential.

particle.c contains a basic, sequential GA.

particle_omp.c makes use of OpenMP to parallelise the GA.

particle_ompi.c makes use of, you guessed it, OpenMPI to parallelise the GA - best used on an HPC cluster.

plot_solution.py visualises the optimised results using Matplotlib.

make all - compiles the C scripts.

make particle, make particle_omp, and make particle_ompi each compiles an individual script.

run, run_omp, and run_ompi each runs an individual script.

make clean - removes compiled C scripts.

make clean_all - removes compiled C scripts and run artifacts