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snopt installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Jul 19 19:55:27 2007
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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:53:19 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed snopt on Athena for Sun and Linux. snopt is a
general-purpose system for constrained optimization. It minimizes a
linear or nonlinear function subject to bounds on the variables and
sparse linear or nonlinear constraints. It is suitable for large-scale
linear and quadratic programming and for linearly constrained
optimization, as well as for general nonlinear programs.
To set up for use:
setup snopt
Usage instructions are complex, as snopt can be used in quite a few
different ways:
as a library to link against using code in C, C++ or FORTRAN
as a standalone solver invoked from within the AMPL modeling language
as a runtime for AMPL .nl stub files
invoked from within Matlab
See https://web.mit.edu/snopt_v7.2/README.to-run for detailed instructions
for running demos. A manual is at https://web.mit.edu/snopt_v7.2/sndoc7.pdf
and https://web.mit.edu/snopt_v7.2/README.athena has pointers to additional
information.
Alex
