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ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY

9700 South Cass Avenue

Argonne, Illinois  60439

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{\bf 
A CASE STUDY IN THE PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY OF
OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS
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{\bf Steven J. Benson,
Lois Curfman McInnes, and
Jorge J. Mor\'e}

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Mathematics and Computer Science Division

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Preprint ANL/MCS-P768-0799

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September 2000 (Revised May 2001)
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This work was supported by the Mathematical, Information, and
Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced
Scientific Computing, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract
W-31-109-Eng-38.
