> > > - If you run Linux of some sort: just try it out, does it install okay > > for you, does it work? > > I will try this but have win32 OS, so I will have to do all this > through virtualbox -- is it possible to install SCIP this way? > (I can try and find out too.)
Yes, it should "just work" (TM) in your VirtualBox :) > > - You could read the documentation and improve it (i.e. provide > > documentation patches for our SCIP interface) > > This sounds good, probably at my level of current ability as a > newbie. > I could also convert some other problems from PuLP to SAGE syntax to > add other examples to one of the tutorial websites > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/numerical/mip.html > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/thematic_tutorials/linear_programming.html# > > > - You could provide feedback what kind of interface would be nice to > > have, i.e. how we can improve the interface > > Definitely, I'll let you know once I get started. > > On a slightly different topic: > I would also be interested in adding MIP support for other solvers > such as Gurobi. > I have Gurobi, but not CPLEXl; therefore without SCIP, I'm out of luck > solving MIP problems where CBC is too slow or are quadratic in > nature. PuLP provides a nice interface directly to the Gurobi API > which we could learn from, or another route is that Gurobi also > accepts LP files which SAGE can already create. Here is a video from > Gurobi ( http://www.gurobi.com/flash/shell-2011-02.html ) and where > they show how to the same an LP file could be read into Gurobi. I know Gurobi and IIRC there was some plan to add an interface to that too. I think Harald Schilly did some work with the Gurobi interface but no-one worked on a proper integration into Sage yet. Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
