Announcement: Public Release of Acro Optimization Software, Version 1.0

Acro: A Common Repository for Optimizers

Sandia National Laboratories*
Albuquerque, NM
USA

Acro integrates a rich variety of optimization libraries and solvers
that have been developed for large-scale engineering and scientific
applications. Acro was developed to facilitate the design, development,
integration and support of optimization software libraries. Thus, Acro
includes both individual optimization solvers as well as optimization
frameworks that provide abstract interfaces for flexible interoperability
of solver components. Furthermore, many solvers included in Acro can
exploit parallel computing resources to solve optimization problems more
quickly.

Acro integrates a variety of optimization software packages, including
both libraries developed at Sandia National Laboratories as well as
publicly available third-party libraries. This initial release of Acro
supports the following optimization capabilities:

   1. Parallel branch-and-bound
   2. Derivative-free local search
   3. Stochastic global optimization methods
   4. Bound-constrained derivative-based local optimization

Acro Version 1.0 is now available for download under the terms
of the Lesser GNU Public License from the following web site:
   http://software.sandia.gov/Acro
Most third party libraries integrated
into Acro have similar open source licenses. For more information,
contact acro-help@sandia.gov.

Acro Project Leaders:
  Bill Hart (Project Lead)
  Erik Boman
  Jonathan Eckstein
  Tammy Kolda
  Patty Hough
  Cindy Phillips

*Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a
Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s
National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.