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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I am not sure whether I quite understand the osilOutput. <div>My default feeling is I don't quite like it. </div><div>There is a reason for all the existing command options in the current design, in a sense that they follow the standard, i.e. they are implemented against the standard OS framework (mainly OShL). </div><div>But i guess we can talk about it tomorrow. </div><div><br></div><div>Jun <br><div></div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:52:56 -0400<br>> From: Horand.Gassmann@dal.ca<br>> To: kmartin@chicagobooth.edu<br>> CC: Os-project-managers@list.coin-or.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Os-project-managers] osilOutput<br>> <br>> Kipp Martin <kmartin@chicagobooth.edu> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Hi Gus:<br>> ><br>> >><br>> >> The idea is to allow users of MPS and .nl files to archive the .nl file<br>> >> for later use. There are several reasons for this. The most important<br>> ><br>> > If you have an .nl file it is already archived, right?<br>> >> one is to allow AML users to submit remote jobs asynchronously. We are<br>> >> at present not serving this community very well. It might also encourage<br>> >> others to switch to OSiL format, and it is useful for debugging if<br>> >> anything should go wrong.<br>> ><br>> > I guess by AML you mean AMPL? You can use AMPL to submit jobs remotely.<br>> ><br>> > Cheers<br>> <br>> I did mean AML, as the situation is the same for all modelling environments.<br>> <br>> I think we should talk about this at the next meeting. A related issue <br>> is asynchronous calls from AMLs. It was in the OSAmplClient2, and I <br>> now think that this is something we should salvage.<br>> <br>> At present, if anything goes wrong with the local machine during a <br>> remote solve, there is no way to get the solution back. AMPL uses <br>> temporary files that will be lost once AMPL crashes or the system is <br>> restarted.<br>> <br>> Cheers<br>> <br>> gus<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Os-project-managers mailing list<br>> Os-project-managers@list.coin-or.org<br>> http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/os-project-managers<br></div></div>                                            </div></body>
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