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The TAO project focuses on the development of software for large-scale optimization problems. TAO uses an object-oriented design to create a flexible toolkit with strong emphasis on the reuse of external tools where appropriate. Our design enables bi-directional connection to lower level linear algebra support (for example, parallel sparse matrix data structures) as well as higher level application frameworks.
The Toolkit for Advanced Optimization (TAO) is aimed at the solution of large-scale optimization problems on high-performance architectures. Our main goals are portability, performance, scalable parallelism, and an interface independent of the architecture.
TAO is suitable for both single-processor and massively-parallel architectures. The current version of TAO has algorithms for unconstrained and bound-constrained optimization. We are working on extending the toolkit to nonlinearly constrained problems.
TAO is funded through the Department of Energy's Office of Science (MICS Division) and is part of the ACTS Toolkit .
We work in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.
The current release (Version 1.6) of TAO can be obtained by entering your email address below (so that you can be informed of future TAO software updates) and downloading the compressed tar file that contains the software.
Check the documentation for the latest installation instructions.
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Related projects at Argonne include our work on Advanced Optimization Technology. Related projects that employ object-based optimization technology include