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Portable Standard LISP (PSL), a dialect of LISP developed at the University of Utah, has been implemented and optimized for the CRAY 1 and CRAY X-MP supercomputers. This version uses a new implementation technique that permits a step-by-step development of the PSL kernel. The initial CRAY version was acceptable, although the execution speed of the PSL was not as fast as had been anticipated. CRAY-specific optimizations were undertaken that in some cases provided a ten-fold speed improvement, resulting in a fast LISP implementation.
The SCIP Optimization Suite provides a collection of software packages for
mathematical optimization centered around the constraint integer programming frame-
work SCIP. This paper discusses enhancements and extensions contained in version 7.0
of the SCIP Optimization Suite. The new version features the parallel presolving library
PaPILO as a new addition to the suite. PaPILO 1.0 simplifies mixed-integer linear op-
timization problems and can be used stand-alone or integrated into SCIP via a presolver
plugin. SCIP 7.0 provides additional support for decomposition algorithms. Besides im-
provements in the Benders’ decomposition solver of SCIP, user-defined decomposition
structures can be read, which are used by the automated Benders’ decomposition solver
and two primal heuristics. Additionally, SCIP 7.0 comes with a tree size estimation
that is used to predict the completion of the overall solving process and potentially
trigger restarts. Moreover, substantial performance improvements of the MIP core were
achieved by new developments in presolving, primal heuristics, branching rules, conflict
analysis, and symmetry handling. Last, not least, the report presents updates to other
components and extensions of the SCIP Optimization Suite, in particular, the LP solver
SoPlex and the mixed-integer semidefinite programming solver SCIP-SDP.