MERLIN-3.1.1. A new version of the Merlin optimization environment
We present a new version of the Merlin optimization package that contains an interface routine enabling the use of Merlin as a non-interactive local optimizer. and a capability to search for the global minimum when the objective function is multimodal. The present package also contains the Merlin Control Language compiler, which previously was distributed as a separate program. Additional features are a new automatic installation procedure and a convenient running script. Program summary Title of program: MERLIN-3.1.1 Catalogue identifier: ADSV Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.club.ac.uk/summaries/ADSV Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University of Belfast, N. Ireland. Catalogue identifier of previous version: ADHQ [1], ADHR [2] Authors of the original program: D.G. Papageorgiou. I.N. Demetropoulos and I.E. Lagaris Does the new version supersede the original program: Yes Computer for which the new version is designed and others on which it has been tested: Designed to be portable to any machine. Tested on SGI running IRIX. SUN running Solaris, INTEL and AMD based Linux machines, employing several compilers, CYGWIN environment under Microsoft Windows. Installation: University of Ioannina, Greece. Programming language used: ANSI Fortran-77 Memory required to execute with typical data: Approximately O(n(2)) words, where n is the number of variables. No. of bits in a word: 64 No. of processors used: 1 Has the code been vectorized or parallelized?: No No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 704254.
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