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## Description

The HOPSPACK software [72] contains the asynchronous parallel pattern search (APPS) algorithm [37]. It can handle unconstrained problems as well as those with bound constraints, linear constraints, and general nonlinear constraints.

HOPSPACK is available to the public under the GNU LGPL and the source code is included with Dakota. HOPSPACK-specific software documentation is available from https://software.sandia.gov/trac/hopspack.

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- asynch_pattern_search : Pattern search, derivative free optimization method