CRPC-TR98763-S						March 1998

Title: NEOS and CONDOR: Solving Optimization Problems Over the Internet

Author: Michael C. Ferris, Michael P. Mesnier, and Jorge J. More'

Submitted August 1998; Available as Argonne Preprint ANL/MCS-P708-0398

Abstract:
We discuss the use of Condor, a distributed resource management system, as
a provider of computational resources for NEOS, an environment for solving
optimization problems over the Internet. We also describe how problems are
submitted and processed by NEOS, and then scheduled and solved by Condor
on available (idle) workstations.

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Michael C. Ferris
ferris@cs.wisc.edu
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Michael P. Mesnier
mesnier@cs.uiuc.edu
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois

Jorge J. More'
more@mcs.anl.gov
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory