From: Jorge More' <more@mcs.anl.gov>
Subject: Expansion of the NEOS Server for Optimization
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:15:45 -0500
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
Summary: [missing]

The NEOS Server continues to expand and improve as we add new services
and facilities. We are currently processing about 3,000 jobs/month.
Among the recent developments:

  GAMS solvers
  Semidefinite programming solvers
  JAVA Submission Tool
  The NEOS Server 3.0 package.


*** GAMS ***

Through the help of GAMS Development Corporation, we now have
extensive support for solving optimization problems with GAMS
(General Algebraic Modeling System).

The NEOS Server currently hosts the following solvers, which accept
input in the GAMS modeling language.

  CONOPT (ARKI Consulting and Development)
  MINOS (Murtagh and Saunders)
  SNOPT (Gill, Murray, and Saunders)
  BDMLP (Brooke, Drud, and Meeraus)
  MILES (Rutherford) and PATH (Dirkse, Ferris, and Munson)

*** Semidefinite Programming ***

Hans Mittelmann has added an extensive list of semidefinite
programming solvers in sparse SDPA format:

  CSDP (Brian Borchers)
  SDPA (Katsuki Fujisawa, Masakazu Kojima, and Kazuhide Nakata)
  SDPT3 (Kim Toh, Mike Todd, and Reha Tutuncu)
  SeDuMi (Jos Sturm)

These solvers run on machines at the Arizona State University.

*** JAVA Submission Tool for Windows users ***

We now have Java-based Submission Tool which connects to the NEOS
Server through TCP/IP sockets. This tool provides Windows and Unix
users with rapid access to the Server and allows submission forms to
be saved for repeated use.

http://www-neos.mcs.anl.gov/neos/server-submit.html

*** NEOS Server 3.0 package ***

You can now download the software behind the Server!
While the NEOS Server does not provide downloads of any solver
software, the NEOS Server 3.0 package provides a ready-made Application
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Service Provider.  Your own applications can be brought on-line through
NEOS without the pain of creating from scratch such necessities as user
interfaces, submission parsing and scheduling software, or the
communications handling necessary to run jobs on remote systems.

http://www-neos.mcs.anl.gov/neos/server-downloads.html

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To learn more about recent developments in the NEOS Server, visit

  http://www-neos.mcs.anl.gov/


Liz Dolan and Jorge More' for the NEOS Group.

The NEOS Server is a project of the Optimization Technology Center,
jointly managed by Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern
University.