[Coin-discuss] HELP! What are you doing with COIN?

[Jonathan Eckstein]

Hi --

The PICO team, consisting of Jonathan Eckstein (Rutgers University), 
William Hart (Sandia National Labs) and Cynthia Phillips (Sandia 
National Labs) has adopted COIN as our primary interface to linear 
programming solvers and cut generators.  PICO is a project to build 
branch-and-bound-based algorithms that scale to thousands of processors, 
and is being used for numerous projects within Sandia National 
Laboratories.  These projects relate to national defense and security.

COIN and the useful new LP solver CLP has allowed us to become 
significantly more independent of what software is available on a 
particular system, and to leverage others' work in building high-quality 
cut generators.  For example, we can evaluate the behavior of an 
application on a large parallel system using the CLP solver, and later 
switch to CPLEX if we wish to pay for a license and need improved LP 
performance.

   -- Jonathan Eckstein


Laszlo Ladanyi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> It seems that the COIN-OR project will be nominated for an IBM internal award.
> To win the award we must show that some/all of the following are true: COIN
> brought luster for IBM; it has technological innovations, there is a community
> that has built around it; it is used in research/real life projects; etc.
> 
> So... if you feel that COIN is/will be useful for you and would like to give
> back something to those who were pushing it within IBM then email me or Robin
> (robinlh at us.ibm.com) any/all of the following (not to pressure you, but we
> need this by end of business day on Monday...) :
> 
> 1) The easiest: a short paragraph about what you are using COIN for (if it's a
> commercial product you can't say anything about that's fine, just say that you
> are using it in a commercial product). Name the used modules.
> 
> 2) A bit harder: Just to help to write our own proposal, say a few words on
> what if anything is innovative/most useful in COIN. 
> 
> 3) The hardest (but the best for us :-) : a recommendation letter. I don't
> know the format, but the hardy folks who are willing to do this can email
> Robin for details.
> 
> 
> So at least:  SPEAK UP! What are you doing with COIN?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Laci
> 
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Associate Professor Jonathan Eckstein
MSIS Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University

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