Disclaimer
This software was written as a personal project and comes with NO WARRANTY of any kind, not even MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Please read the file LICENSE in the SifDec home directory prior to any other manipulation.
The authors assume no responsibility for any use.
Contact
N. I. M. Gould,
Computational Science and Engineering Department,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, England.
n.gould@rl.ac.uk
http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Person/N.I.M.Gould
D. Orban, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Mathematics and Industrial Engineering Department
Dominique.Orban@polymtl.ca
http://www.mgi.polymtl.ca/dominique.orban
Ph.L. Toint, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la
Paix, 61, rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur, Belgium.
Philippe.Toint@fundp.ac.be
http://www.fundp.ac.be/~phtoint
Note
This documentation is in constant evolution, and so is the software. We advise the reader to consult the website http://cuter.rl.ac.uk/cuter-www/sifdec for the latest information, bug fixes and patches concerning SifDec.
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This document describes installation and usage
of the SifDec package, and is intended to be one of the main
documentation sources available with the package;
other sources include man pages,
various README files and self-documented scripts.
SifDec is a decoder. It translates test problems, written in Standard Input Format (SIF), into well-defined Fortran 77 and data files. Once translated, these files may be manipulated to provide tools suitable for testing optimization packages. SifDec used to be part of, and has been extensively used with, the CUTE testing environment [1] and is now a vital component of the CUTEr testing environment, which includes ready-to-use interfaces to existing packages, such as MINOS, SNOPT, filterSQP and KNITRO, but could also serve different purposes. SifDec is now distributed as a separate package for both convenience reasons and to encourage consistent use in conjunction with other software and packages. SifDec is available on a variety of UNIX platforms, including LINUX and is designed to be accessible and easily manageable on heterogeneous networks. |