Assumptions on where to find input .mps files

[spkelle2]

Since our competition files will be executed as sh mipcomp.sh dataset.test, could someone point me to where I could find more information on the following:

1. Will the file paths in dataset.test be fully qualified? If not, what directory should we assume each path to exist in?
2. Will the file paths in dataset.test have .gz extensions or can we assume them to be unzipped at run time?

[ambros-gleixner]

Thanks for the question!

1. Yes, you can assume paths will start from /.
2. On the evaluations server, we will provide all instances as unzipped mps files.

[spkelle2]

Perfect! That was the answer I was hoping for. Thank you for getting back to me to let me know.

[spkelle2]

@ambros-gleixner I have a related question on this topic. When you call sh mipcomp.sh dataset.test, are you going to be moving the .sh file to the folder where the .test file is, moving the .test file to the folder where the .sh file is, or will one of them be called from an absolute path?

[ambros-gleixner]

We will call your mipcomp.sh from your directory, and dataset.test will be an absolute path.

Feel free to ping us when you have a running pre-version and we can check whether everything works for us.

[spkelle2]

you guys make this easy. Thank you!