Optimization on the NEOS Server
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The NEOS Server for Optimization was unveiled in 1995 as one result of an effort to develop computational servers and collaborative technologies. Today, the NEOS Server (www-neos.mcs.anl.gov) is a multi-institutional research effort providing access to more than fifty academic and commercial optimization packages through an assortment of Internet interfaces. More than seventy thousand job requests are handled annually, including optimization problems from academic, commercial, and government institutions. In this article, we give an overview of the NEOS Server, chronicle improvements found in Version 4 that make it faster and easier to use, and shed some light on actual applications that have been optimized with the NEOS Server.
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