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ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY

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Argonne, Illinois 60439











Benchmarking Optimization Software with COPS





Elizabeth D. Dolan and Jorge J. Moré





Mathematics and Computer Science Division




Technical Report ANL/MCS-246





November 2000 (revised January 2, 2001)















This work was supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38, and by the National Science Foundation (Challenges in Computational Science) grant CDA-9726385 and (Information Technology Research) grant CCR-0082807.


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Elizabeth D. Dolan% latex2html id marker 5547 \setcounter{footnote}{2}\fnsymbol{footnote}and Jorge J. Moré% latex2html id marker 5548 \setcounter{footnote}{3}\fnsymbol{footnote}

Abstract:

We describe version 2.0 of the COPS set of nonlinearly constrained optimization problems. We have added new problems, as well as streamlined and improved most of the problems. We also provide a comparison of the LANCELOT, LOQO, MINOS, and SNOPT solvers on these problems.


Liz Dolan
2001-01-02