<div dir="ltr">Hi Matt,<div><br></div><div>Have you checked out <a href="https://software.sandia.gov/trac/pyomo">Pyomo</a>? It's a python mathematical programming interface from Sandia that can call a number of solvers (namely, COIN CBC for this case). I admit that I haven't used it much myself (yet), but it looks promising and seems to have some overlap with the COIN-OR community as well.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Matt Bromberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattcbro@earthlink.net" target="_blank">mattcbro@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have yet to see a simple way to use CBC or CLP using raw binary data. In particular I have a large problem with 40K constraints 10K variables or so.<br>
That's about 3Gbytes of raw doubles. It expands to an unwieldy size using any of the text base input formats. (hundreds of gigabytes).<br>
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I can get that data into a python numpy array but it does not appear to be easy to dump that raw array into CLP. Unfortunately cylp doesn't support the latest API.<br>
I would roll my own python interface but there is literally no documentation I can find online for the C interface to something like CoinMP.<br>
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All the other interfaces appear to be useless for my purposes. Pulp is rather arcane and there is no obvious way to pull the data back into python.<br>
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I am in somewhat disbelief that I can't do this:<br>
[xopt,fmin] = linprog(c, Acon, rhsvec) ;<br>
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to solve min c' * x given Acon * x <= rhsvec .<br>
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The above is the one line matlab interface to linprog. There should be something similar in Python in support of CLP using it's primary matrix array interface, numpy/ndarrays.<br>
Even my cylp solution takes 10 lines of python code to do this, plus half a day of parsing documentation. It's just unfortunate that it segfaults on the larger problems.<br>
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If anyone has a good way to do this in Python or C, with an example I'd love to see it. For now I have to move on to other solvers.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Matthew Gidden, Ph.D.<br>Postdoctoral Associate, Nuclear Engineering<div>The University of Wisconsin -- Madison<br>Ph. 225.892.3192<br></div></div></div></div></div>
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