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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 CUTEr home directory prior to any other manipulation.

The authors assume no responsibility for any use.

The authors, N. I. M. Gould, D. Orban and Ph.L. Toint














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, CERFACS, Parallel Algorithms Project, Toulouse, France.
Dominique.Orban@cerfacs.fr
http://www.cerfacs.fr/~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 for the latest information, bug fixes and patches concerning CUTEr.







CUTEr is a versatile testing environment for optimization and linear algebra solvers. The package contains a collection of test problems, along with Fortran 77, Fortran 90 and Matlab tools intended to help developers design, compare and improve new and existing solvers. This document describes installation and basic usage of the CUTEr environment, 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.

The test problems provided are written in so-called Standard Input Format (SIF), and a decoder is provided to convert from this format into well-defined Fortran 77 and data files. Once translated, these files may be manipulated to provide tools suitable for testing optimization packages. Ready-to-use interfaces to existing packages, such as MINOS, SNOPT, filterSQP and KNITRO, are provided.

CUTEr is available on a variety of UNIX platforms, including LINUX and is designed to be accessible and easily manageable on heterogeneous networks.

``When all else fails, read the documentation.'' (fortune)


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Dominique Orban 2005-03-24