> On May 6, 8:51 pm, prynh
@gmail.com wrote:
> > > To use the NAG library, one must PURCHASE object code for the NAG
> > > library specific to a compiler and operating system. Have you done so?
> > Thank you for this. No I haven't purchased any code - I just tried
> > compiling some code that I inherited "out of the box".
> > > I don't think the NAG library is distributed for g95 or gfortran. The
> > > routine E04UCF
> > > "is designed to minimize an arbitrary smooth function subject to
> > > constraints (which may
> > > include simple bounds on the variables, linear constraints and smooth
> > > nonlinear constraints) using a
> > > sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method."
> > > There exist free Fortran codes with similar functionality, and you
> > > could try substituting one of them.
> > Do you know where I would find such codes ? I'm new to Fortran;
> > basically I'm trying to get some code that I've been given to run...
> You can search "minimiz" and "optimiz" at Alan Miller's sitehttp://users.bigpond.net.au/amiller/(for nonlinearly constrained
> optimization, cobyla may work). Some other places to look are
> Open Directory: Fortran: Source Code: Optimizationhttp://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Fortran/Source_Code/O...
> NEOS Guide Optimization Treehttp://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/OptWeb/index.html
> Netlibhttp://www.netlib.org/opt/.
Thanks!