?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4157%2F&rft.title=OpTiX-II%3A+A+Software+Environment+for+MCDM+based+on+Distributed+and+Parallel+Computing&rft.creator=Boden%2C+H.&rft.creator=Grauer%2C+M.&rft.description=The+intention+of+the+paper+is+to+give+an+introduction+to+the+OpTiX-II+Software+Environment%2C+which+supports+the+parallel+and+distributed+solution+of+decision+problems+which+can+be+represented+as+mathematical+nonlinear+programming+tasks.+First%2C+a+brief+summary+of+nonsequential+solution+concepts+for+this+class+of+decision+problems+on+multiprocessor+systems+will+be+given.+The+focus+of+attention+will+be+put+on+coarse-grained+parallelization+and+its+implementation+on+multi-computer+clusters.+The+conceptual+design+objectives+for+the+OpTiX-II+Software+Environment+will+be+presented+as+well+as+the+implementation+on+a+workstation+cluster%2C+a+transputer+system+and+a+multiprocessor+workstation+(shared+memory).+The+OpTiX-II+system+supports+the+steps+from+the+formulation+of+decision+problems+to+their+solution+on+networks+of+(parallel)+computers.+In+order+to+demonstrate+the+use+of+OpTiX-II%2C+the+solution+of+a+decision+problem+from+the+field+of+structural+design+is+discussed+and+some+numerical+test+results+are+supplied.&rft.publisher=WP-94-054&rft.date=1994-08&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4157%2F1%2FWP-94-054.pdf&rft.identifier=++Boden%2C+H.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fview%2Fiiasa%2F1738.html%3E+%26+Grauer%2C+M.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fview%2Fiiasa%2F1921.html%3E++(1994).++OpTiX-II%3A+A+Software+Environment+for+MCDM+based+on+Distributed+and+Parallel+Computing.+++IIASA+Working+Paper.+IIASA%2C+Laxenburg%2C+Austria%3A+WP-94-054+++++