This project is a collaborative effort between IBM and Carnegie Mellon University to produce novel open source
software for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLP) with convex relaxation. It is also studying heuristic
methods for solving classes of non-convex problems arising from real world applications.
The resources for problems with convex relaxation include: a new publicly-available library of test instances of
convex MINLPs, an algorithmic framework that contains both classical methods and hybrid algorithms, and a new framework
that has been released as an open source project in COIN-OR. The computational results on the libraries of test problems
are available.
The Aperi Storage Management Framework project is developing and promoting a common, open extensible
source framework to help end users and storage vendors overcome the complexity and interoperability challenges
in today's storage environments.
Along with its commitment to open standards, the Aperi project
will provide an extensible component architecture and basic storage management capabilities upon which end users and
vendors can develop application plug-ins. In addition, vendors can include the entire framework or only those components
they need within a larger solution. The modular design, along with the ability for users to modify the source code,
should afford a tremendous amount of flexibility for both vendors and end users.
