High Performance Algorithms and Software in Nonlinear Optimization

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the conference on High Performance Software for Nonlinear Optimization (HPSN097) which was held in Ischia, Italy, in June 1997. The rapid progress of computer technologies, including new parallel architectures, has stimulated a large amount of research devoted to building software environments and defining algorithms able to fully exploit this new computational power. In some sense, numerical analysis has to conform itself to the new too...