[Ipopt] Using ipopt with PARDISO

[Renata Leitao Dias da Silva]

Thanks very much for the useful information, Fabian.

Best whishes,
Renata

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Renata Silva
Department of Mathematics
University of Coimbra


On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Fabian Wein wrote:

> Hi Renata,
> 
> > Ok, I will do what you suggest. I think Intel's MKL is not good for ipopt
> > (as I read somewhere) but I will get one of the others soon.
> 
> Intel's MKL consists of BLAS/LAPACK and mkl_solver (= Pardiso).
> 
> It is known, that the MKL-Pardiso don't work (I wonder if this is still
> true for the newest MKL) but you can use MKL_BLAS/LAPACK with the
> "academic Pardiso".
> 
> > Anyway, for now I just wanted to compare ipopt with MA27 vs. ipopt with
> > PARDISO in terms of robustness. I suppose the optimized BLAS/LAPACK don't
> > change the results, just the CPU time, am I right?
> 
> The BLAS shouldn't make a difference. But at least for gcc 4.3 on Linux 64bit
> I was not able to use MA27 with MKL BLAS/LAPACK and I also was not able
> to link with the "academic Pardiso".
> 
> Fabian
> 
> 
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