Table 3. Numerical performance of the optimization with both methods for all cultivation conditions.


Cultivation # (method)

Cost function (Eq. 17)

Iter.

CPU (s)

1 (SeqSO)

0.035

-

-

1 (SimSO)

0.032

198

29.7 (a)

2 (SeqSO)

0.092

-

-

2 (SimSO)

0.088

441

28.5 (b)

3 (SeqSO)

0.047

-

-

3 (SimSO)

0.035

891

74.3 (a)

4 (SeqSO)

0.141

-

-

4 (SimSO)

0.089

852

149 (a)

(a) Athlon XP, running Windows XP.
(b) NEOS server: http://www-neos.mcs.anl.gov/neos/solvers/NCO:IPOPT/solver-www.html.


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