NEOS Interfaces to Knitro

Sample Submissions
WWW Form - XML-RPC

Knitro

The NEOS Server offers Knitro for the solution of:

Problems can be submitted to Knitro on the NEOS server in AMPL or GAMS format.

Knitro natively offers several other interfaces in a variety of languages: (i) object-oriented interfaces for C++, C#, Java and Python; (ii) matrix-oriented interfaces for C, Fortran, Matlab, and R; (iii) links to modelling languages AIMS, AMPL, GAMS, and MPL; (iv) and links to Excel through Frontline Solvers.

Key features of Knitro include: (i) a large set of well-documented user options (see the Knitro documentation) and automatic tuner; (ii) (parallel) multi-start for global optimization; (iii) derivatives approximation and checker; and (iv) internal presolver.

Knitro was originally developed by Richard Byrd, Mary Beth Hribar, Jorge Nocedal and Richard Waltz with additional help from Guanghui Liu, Marcelo Marazzi, Todd Plantenga, and Jose Luis Morales. Since July 2015, Knitro has been developed by Artelys with Richard Waltz as lead developer.

Free trial and evaluations of Knitro are available on the Download page of the Artelys website. For more information on Knitro, see the Artelys Knitro Overview or directly contact Artelys.


Using the NEOS Server for Knitro/GAMS


The user must submit a model in GAMS format to solve an optimization problem. For security purposes, the model submitted must adhere to the following conventions:

If you are unfamiliar with GAMS, the GAMS Documentation includes a GAMS Tutorial and User's Guide. Examples of models in GAMS format can be found in the GAMS model library.

By default, the NEOS Server limits the amount of output generated in the listing file by turning off the symbol and unique element list, symbol cross references, and restricting the rows and columns listed to zero. This behavior can be changed by specifying the appropriate options in the model file. See the documentation on GAMS output for further information.

You may optionally submit an options file if you wish to override the default parameter settings for the solver. Currently, the NEOS Server can only use optfile=1 with GAMS input. Therefore, any model that specifies a different options file will not work as intended.

Web Submission Form
Model File
Upload the GAMS model file.
Options File
The solver options file is optional. If provided, the statement <modelname>.optfile = 1 ; is required before the solve statement in your model file. Only optfile = 1 is supported, however, options also may be specified within the model input file (see the GAMS documentation).
Parameters File
A secondary parameters file may be uploaded to NEOS. This file is optional. Note that some settings are overwritten by NEOS default settings. (See GAMS Call and CL Parameters for more details.)
GDX File
Optional GDX file for inputs. This file will be renamed to "in.gdx". The model must include "$GDXIN in.gdx" to load this file.
GAMS Restart File
A GAMS restart file can be submitted to NEOS. (See GAMS Save and Restart for more details.)
Return GDX output
Check the box to have the solver return a compressed GDX file that contains all of the symbols in the model.
Return GAMS listing file
Check the box to include the GAMS listing file in returned output.
Return log file
If the box is checked, the log file containing information generated by the solver will be returned with the output.
Comments
You may enter any additional comments here, for example, to identify the data for your own information. These comments will be returned with your results.
Additional Settings


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