info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (02/14/85)
From: Michel_E_Debar_DECUS%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Comment on: linear programming software for Vax
A company in London (UK) sells a VERY powerfull lp code for Vax (as well
as for IBM, Prime, DG, Dec20, Cray, and a couple of others). Most vesions
are rather optimized and tuned for their target machine. Can't remember
an exact price. Price is very decent compared to other programs in the same
performance class. Can usually handle problems with more than 10000 constraints
(ten thousand). If you care for more information send a letter to:
Michel E Debar
FNDP Computing Centre
Rue Grandgagnage, 21
5000 Namur Belgium
and I will forward it immediately to the author (I am giving his address
below from my blurred reminescences (I am busy rebuilding our file system
for a Dec20...)):
Applied Mathematical Systems
John H Forrest
Hillier Road14
London UK
The package is really very powerful. There is an optional component called Magic
for
building descriptions of LP's ( a rather sophisticated Matrix Generator Generato
r
).
Cheers, Michel