Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Freshmeat reports that a school scheduling program based on GAs is available. The procedure, called tablix,can be run on a single machine or on a loose cluster:

Tablix is a high school timetable generator. It uses a coarse-grained parallel genetic algorithm to construct sensible timetables from XML-formated school information files. It can run on a single host as well as on a heterogenous parallel virtual machine using PVM. Its features include a number of possible restrictions for teachers or classes, HTML-formatted output, and configurable genetic parameters.

The developer of the application is Tomaz Solc.