README.concorde

# README.concorde
# THe python scripts used to simulate WFIRST use the concorde traveling salesman problem (TSP) solver.
# Before running the install script, the code should be downloaded and unpacked to local directory
# "concorde" in the installation directory (the source included in this distribution may not be
# appropriate for all computing platforms).

# To get the concorde source (concorde-linux for Red Hat Linux 8.0) :

  wget http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde/downloads/codes/src/co031219.tgz

# or go to  

#  http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde/downloads/downloads.htm

# and download the appropriate source code.

# NOTE: The simulation scripts use concorde to only approximately solve a 
# traveling salesman problem. For more accurate solutions, you need to link
# an LP solver to concorde. This installation skips that part.
# See the concorde documentation at:

#  http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde/DOC/README.html