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

[Anthony Presley]

Very cool!  Congratulations!

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Anthony

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:34 -0400, Ted Ralphs wrote:
> 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.
>