[Coin-discuss] COIN Software Wins First Open Contest of Parallel Programming!

[Ted Ralphs]

We are pleased to announce that a parallel TSP solver comprised entirely 
of COIN software has won the first Open Contest of Parallel Programming 
at the 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
and High Performance Computing. The contest description is here:

http://www.sbc.org.br/sbac/2007/opencontest.php

The software was authored by Yan Xu and Ted Ralphs building on the 
following COIN projects:

Cops (ALPS/BiCePS/BLIS)
CoinUtils
Osi
Cgl
Clp
BuildTools

In the open source tradition, source code for the solver is now included 
  in stable version 0.9 of BLIS, which will have its first release 
shortly. The prize was a Sun server, which will be hosted in the COR at L 
Lab at Lehigh University to do testing and nightly builds of COIN 
software. Thanks to all the developers and users who contributed to this 
outcome.

-- 
Dr. Ted Ralphs
Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
(610)758-4784
ted at lehigh dot edu
www.lehigh.edu/~tkr2