Optimize program

Loops that could not be vectorized on conventional vector computers often performed very well under the Multiflow architecture and, unlike vector machines, for which a person could spend a great deal of time optimizing programs, substantially less could be done on the Multiflow, as most of the work fell to the compiler anyway. All the usual optimizations for memory utilization and cache usage also appHed to the Microflow. There were, of course, programs for which the compiler could not make good use of the multiple functional units, and the computer would mn at the speed of just one or two iadividually quite slow functional units. 

Analysis programs—These inelude aerothermal and meehanieal analysis programs, with diagnosties and optimization programs. 

We are now in a position to formulate the problem of minimizing the cost of MSAs. By adopting the linear-programming formulation (P6.1), one can write the following optimization program ... 

The revised path diagram is integrated with material allocation equations to form the constraints for the mathematical formulation. Tlie following model presents the optimization program as a LINGO file. The commented-out lines (preceded by ) are explanatory statements that are not part of the formulation. 

We are now in a position to solve the pharmaceutical case study (Section 9.1.2) using optimization techniques. The first step is to create the TID including process streams and utilities (Fig. 9.15). Next, the problem is formulated as an optimization program as follows ... 

In order to generate a candidate EAR, one should consider potential raw materials and by-products, satisfaction of stoichiometric conditions, assurance of thermodynamic feasibility, and fulfillment of environmental requirements. These issues can be addressed by employing an optimization formulation to identify an overall reaction that yields the desired product at maximum economic potential while satisfying stoichiometric, thermodynamic, and environmental constraints. For a more detailed description of this optimization program, the reader is referred to Crabtree and El-Halwagi (1994). 

A simplex-optimization program that incorporates this scheme is used in the example nonlinear fitting (Section 4.2). 

Then, following the appropriate steps (i.e., partial differentiation of the Lagrange function) and solving the resulting set of six simultaneous equations, values are obtained for the appropriate levels of X and X2, to yield an optimum in vitro time of 17.9 mm (Lo%). The solution to a constrained optimization program may depend heavily on the constraints applied to the secondary objectives. 

Wetter, M., 2004. GenOpt, Generic Optimization Program version 2.0.0. Technical Report LBNL-54199, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, Berkely, CA. 

In order to answer these questions, the kinetic and network structure models were used in conjunction with a nonlinear least squares optimization program (SIMPLEX) to determine cure response in "optimized ovens ". Ovens were optimized in two different ways. In the first the bake time was fixed and oven air temperatures were adjusted so that the crosslink densities were as close as possible to the optimum value. In the second, oven air temperatures were varied to minimize the bake time subject to the constraint that all parts of the car be acceptably cured. Air temperatures were optimized for each of the different paints as a function of different sets of minimum and maximum heating rate constants. 

Today, multi-parallel synthesis lies at the forefront of organic and medicinal chemistry, and plays a major role in lead discovery and lead optimization programs in the pharmaceutical industry. The first solid-phase domino reactions were developed by Tietze and coworkers [6] using a domino Knoevenagel/hetero-Diels-Alder and a domino Knoevenagel/ene protocol. Reaction of solid-phase bound 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds such as 10-22 with aldehydes and enol ethers in the presence of piperidinium acetate led to the 1-oxa-1,3-butadiene 10-23, which underwent an intermolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reaction with the enol ethers to give the resin-bound products 10-24. Solvolysis with NaOMe afforded the desired dihydro-pyranes, 10-25 with over 90 % purity. Ene reactions have also been performed in a similar manner [7]. 

Two papers described the optimization of LLE and physicochemical properties in a series of pyrazole HTV nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and the selection of lersivirine (6) as a development candidate [15,16]. The early lead (7) was relatively lipophilic (clogP = 4.3), rapidly metabolized in human liver microsomes and had an LLE of only 1.9 [pIC50 (HIV RT) - clogP] [15]. An optimization program targeting increased LLE in less lipophilic compounds of low MW (to... 

Finally, a lead optimization program that utilized a strategy to maximize LipE in a series of aminopyrrolidines produced the broadly selective, potent adenosine-5 -triphosphate (ATP)-competitive Akt inhibitor 11 (Akt IC50 < 1 nM, clogP = 2.4, LipE = 7.2) which was nominated for clinical development [18]. 

Karpov, I. K., L. A. Kaz min and S. A. Kashik, 1973, Optimal programming for computer calculation of irreversible evolution in geochemical systems. Geochemistry International 10,464 170. 

One can watch desperate users trying to manipulate the parameters of optimization programs until the program will give them the apparently obvious solution. 

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