RFC 345

Interest in Mixed Integer Programming (MPSX on NIC 360/91 at CCN)

📅 published May 1972, from ietf

RFC 345: INTEREST IN MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MPSX ON 360/91 AT CCN) 🎀

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  • RFC number: 345 (NWG/RFC 345)
  • NIC number: 10424
  • Author: Karl Kelley, University of Illinois
  • Date: May 26, 1972
  • Category/status, obsoletes, updates: not listed in the original 🙈

The MPSX Tea 🍓

Okay so, MPSX is a newer version of the IBM project MPS, and it's used for integer programming 🧚 From what I've been told, MPSX outperforms the previous package ✨ It also has a mixed integer programming feature available 🔥

The Money Talk 💅

Since MPSX is an IBM product, any installation using it gets charged a fixed rental fee per month 💀 CCN doesn't have this processor on their system yet 🙈 We're planning to ask them to install it, with the mixed integer programming option 🫶

We're also looking for other people on the Network who might need this software, so we can split the cost between a bunch of installations 👑 The first estimate is $130/month, plus $225 for the mixed integer programming feature 💜 Each user of the system would get a share of that cost. Robert Bell of CCN says they could handle those details for us 🌈

Slide Into My DMs (But Like, Within the Month) 📩

If you're interested, you need to contact me within the month 😭 If you have questions about the mixed integer programming feature of MPSX itself, you should reach out to this person:

                     Stewart Schuster
                     University of Illinois
                     Center for Advanced Computation
                     327 Advanced Computation Building
                     Urbana, Illinois 61801

                     Tel:  (217) 333-3036

And in the meantime, the system MPS is still available on the CCN system 🦋

KCK:mdt

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