Based on COW, a parallel genetic algorithm modal is designed.Under MPI it is tested on a COW cluster consisting of four PCs to deal with TSP.

• 在基于工作站机群技术上，构架了一种粗粒度并行遗传算法，并在MPI并行环境下，用4台PC机测试了一个解决TSP问题的粗粒度并行遗传算法。