Hi Karthik Thanks for your interest in our project. I hope that you'll be able to put in a nice proposal. To get started I would suggest you look at our existing solvers, especially IPOPT and CONOPT as examples of optimisation solvers. It might also be valuable to go through the process of implementing some example models and solving them with the current solvers (especially IPOPT, as the only FOSS optimizer that we have currently). My feeling is that parallel solvers will be quite advantageous for problems which are expensive to calculate (perhaps with a lot of thermodynamic properties), and/or for those with many local minima but where a global minimum is required. I find the idea of particle swarm optimisation attractive/interesting in that case. Perhaps you can do some reading about that as well as related approaches eg genetic algorithms and simulated annealing etc. A survey of available open-source codes would be useful, also.
Cheers JP On 16/03/15 19:39, karthik senthil wrote: > Hello all, > > I am Karthik Senthil pursuing my undergraduate degree from National > Institute of Technology Karnataka, India. > > I am an avid open source enthusiast and passionate about giving back > to the community. I have been involved in various research projects in > my university particularly in the field of High Performance > Computing(Parallel Computing) and Programming Languages&Compilers . > > I recently came across the projects that have been opened for students > by ASCEND. > > I am very interested in contributing to the project "Parallel > optimisation solvers for ASCEND" and hence wanted to know more about > the same and on how to get started :) > > Thank you for your time. > > Thank You > Karthik Senthil > 3rd Year,B.Tech(IT) > NITK Surathkal > India > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Ascend-sim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Ascend-sim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users
