2007年5月17日星期四

Toolkit for Advanced Optimization (TAO)

高级优化工具:提供传统的线性和非线性优化。面向大型优化问题。


The TAO project focuses on the development of software for large-scale optimization problems. TAO uses an object-oriented design to create a flexible toolkit with strong emphasis on the reuse of external tools where appropriate. Our design enables bi-directional connection to lower level linear algebra support (for example, parallel sparse matrix data structures) as well as higher level application frameworks.

The Toolkit for Advanced Optimization (TAO) is aimed at the solution of large-scale optimization problems on high-performance architectures. Our main goals are portability, performance, scalable parallelism, and an interface independent of the architecture.

TAO is suitable for both single-processor and massively-parallel architectures. The current version of TAO has algorithms for unconstrained and bound-constrained optimization. We are working on extending the toolkit to nonlinearly constrained problems.

TAO is funded through the Department of Energy's Office of Science (MICS Division) and is part of the ACTS Toolkit .

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