TO BUILD AND RUN SERIAL BLIS (UNIX-LIKE ENVIRONMENTS)
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1. Download and build the BiCePS serial library version 0.9. Please refer to
the INSTALL file in the installation directory for instructions.

2. In BUILDDIR/Bcps/examples/Blis, type 'make' to build the executable.

3. Modify parameters if desired. Bcps-0.9/Alps/include/AlpsParams.h has
explanations of each parameter. There are two ways to specify parameters:
   - parameter file: blis.par
   - command line

The user must specify:
   - which instance to solve

The users can specify:
   - maximum solution time
   - log level, etc.

4. To run Blis, type 

	BUILDDIR/Bcps/examples/Blis/blis -param blis.par

   Blis can also read in parameters from command line, for instance

	BUILDDIR/Bcps/examples/Blis/blis -Alps_instance ./data/input3.txt
	
TO BUILD AND RUN PARALLEL BLIS (UNIX_LIKE ENVIRONMENTS)
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1. Download and build BiCePS parallel library version 0.9. Please refer to the
INSTALL file in the installation directory.

2. In BUILDDIR/Bcps/examples/Blis, type 'make' to build the executable.

3. Modify parameters if desired. Bcps-0.9/Alps/include/AlpsParams.h has
explanations of each parameter. There are two ways to specify parameters:
   - parameter file: blis.par
   - command line

The user must specify:
   - which instance to solve
   - how many processes to be launched 

The user can specify:
   - how many hubs
   - maximum solution time
   - log level, etc.

4. The way to run the parallel version depends on users' computing
environment, but in general the command line should look something like

    mpirun -np numProcesses BUILDDIR/Bcps/examples/Blis/blis -param blis.par
	
TO BUILD AND RUN SERIAL BLIS (MS VISUAL STUDIO)
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See INSTALL file in the BCPS distribution