Running ParSA

This page will serve as a progress report for the weekly work done on running the ParSA algorithm. Plots of cost function versus step number and the parameters used will be included for each completed run.

Week of 21 January 2008
The goal of the first run was to ensure that the MIR scheduler and solver would be able to successfully complete an entire run.

The parameters used for this run are as follows: {         SA_Solver       SA_MIRSolver {                 SA_Solver {                         datafilename            data.ser outputfilename         parsaoutput solutionfilename       * overwritesolution      better writefunction          path verbose                on                          verboselevel            10 StartSolution          Init }                 SA_Scheduler SA_MIRScheduler {                         SA_Schedulerdouglas gregory {                                 picturedirectory        .douglas gregory OptType                MIN thresholdvalue         0 initialtemperature     -1.0 initaccratio           0.9 verboselevel           10 timelimit              100000 }                         Alpha                  0.5 Betta                 2 endtemperature        0 Temperature_Reset     0 }                 Betta_Runtime           1.1 Ebest                  0 Epsilon                0.01 Maximum_RunLength      RunFactor*GetLocalN Minimum_RunLength      GetLocalN Samples                10 RunFactor              5 algorithm              MIR } }