Acro User Manual Version Version 1.0

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Acro Users Manual

### Version 1.0

William E. Hart
Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms Dept
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~wehart
wehart@sandia.gov

This document provides a user's guide for the Acro software library. The Acro Project is an effort to facilitate the design, development, integration and support of optimization software libraries. The goal of the Acro Project is to develop (parallel) optimization solvers and libraries using object-oriented software frameworks that facilitate the application of these solvers to large-scale engineering and scientific applications. Thus Acro includes both individual optimization solvers as well as optimization frameworks that provide abstract interfaces for flexible interoperability of solver components. Acro has been written to support optimizers that are broadly useful for DOE's engineering and scientific applications. In particular, many solvers included in Acro can exploit parallel computing resources to solve optimization problems more quickly.

## Table of Contents

- Introduction
- Software Overview
- Software Management
- Installation ( Configuration )
- Acro Licenses ( Licensing Details )
- References
- Acknowledgements

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