TY  - RPRT
CY  - IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
ID  - iiasa4157
UR  - https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4157/
A1  - Boden, H.
A1  - Grauer, M.
Y1  - 1994/08//
N2  - The intention of the paper is to give an introduction to the OpTiX-II Software Environment, which supports the parallel and distributed solution of decision problems which can be represented as mathematical nonlinear programming tasks. First, 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, 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, the solution of a decision problem from the field of structural design is discussed and some numerical test results are supplied.
PB  - WP-94-054
M1  - working_paper
TI  - OpTiX-II: A Software Environment for MCDM based on Distributed and Parallel Computing
AV  - public
EP  - 23
ER  -