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% UF Sparse Matrix Collection, Tim Davis
% http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/matrices/LPnetlib/lp_sierra
% name: LPnetlib/lp_sierra
% [Netlib LP problem sierra: minimize c'*x, where Ax=b, lo<=x<=hi]
% id: 690
% date: 
% author: R. Helgason, J. Kennington, P. Wong
% ed: R. Fourer
% fields: title name A b id aux kind date author ed notes
% aux: c lo hi z0
% kind: linear programming problem
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% notes:
% A Netlib LP problem, in lp/data.  For more information                    
% send email to netlib@ornl.gov with the message:                           
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% 	 send index from lp                                                      
% 	 send readme from lp/data                                                
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% The following are relevant excerpts from lp/data/readme (by David M. Gay):
%                                                                           
% The column and nonzero counts in the PROBLEM SUMMARY TABLE below exclude  
% slack and surplus columns and the right-hand side vector, but include     
% the cost row.  We have omitted other free rows and all but the first      
% right-hand side vector, as noted below.  The byte count is for the        
% MPS compressed file; it includes a newline character at the end of each   
% line.  These files start with a blank initial line intended to prevent    
% mail programs from discarding any of the data.  The BR column indicates   
% whether a problem has bounds or ranges:  B stands for "has bounds", R     
% for "has ranges".  The BOUND-TYPE TABLE below shows the bound types       
% present in those problems that have bounds.                               
%                                                                           
% The optimal value is from MINOS version 5.3 (of Sept. 1988)               
% running on a VAX with default options.                                    
%                                                                           
%                        PROBLEM SUMMARY TABLE                              
%                                                                           
% Name       Rows   Cols   Nonzeros    Bytes  BR      Optimal Value         
% SIERRA     1228   2036     9252      76627  B     1.5394362184E+07        
%                                                                           
%         BOUND-TYPE TABLE                                                  
% SIERRA     UP                                                             
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% Supplied by Bob Fourer.                                                   
% When included in Netlib: Explicit zeros omitted.                          
%                                                                           
% Bob Bixby reports that the CPLEX solver (running on a Sparc station)      
% finds slightly different optimal values for some of the problems.         
% On a MIPS processor, MINOS version 5.3 (with crash and scaling of         
% December 1989) also finds different optimal values for some of the        
% problems.  The following table shows the values that differ from those    
% shown above.  (Whether CPLEX finds different values on the recently       
% added problems remains to be seen.)                                       
%                                                                           
% Problem        CPLEX(Sparc)          MINOS(MIPS)                          
% SIERRA                            1.5394364186E+07                        
%                                                                           
% Source: GFRD-PNC, SIERRA: R. Helgason, J. Kennington, and P. Wong,        
% "An Application of Network Programming for National Forest Planning",     
% Technical Report OR 81006, Dept. of Operations Research, Southern         
% Methodist University.                                                     
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