Tom,

Sounds fine anytime is good.  Basically the parameters that need changing are 
those on the Optimizer sheet:

Start/End Date
Spreads
Max Inj/With rates
Max Storage volume
Selected Curve
Storage Facility

I'm free all week, so let me know when and where if you want to get together.

Mat







Tom Halliburton@ENRON
02/27/2001 10:00 AM
To: Matt Smith/NA/Enron@ECT
cc:  

Subject: Re: Solver Licence Key  

Hi Matt,
Multiple values for parameters - sounds OK.  I'd add an extra run option to 
the menu bar, and you could set up a list of parameters on a separate tab, 
each line corresponding to a complete run.  How about a meeting tomorrow when 
you could tell me what parameters need to be varied?

Tom




Matt Smith@ECT
02/26/2001 05:46 PM
To: Tom Halliburton/Corp/Enron@ENRON@ECT
cc:  

Subject: Re: Solver Licence Key  

Tom,

I took a few days off and just got back....

Anyway, I haven't tried it without the key, but if you say it works, then I'm 
sure it does.  One thing I'm realizing, though, is that it's taking me way 
too much time to babysit this thing through multiple runs of the model even 
when it does work.  In order to get the full benefit of your model I want to 
run it a zillion times for many different combinations of parameters.  So, if 
you haven't guessed already, I'm wondering how hard it would be to get this 
thing to zip through some preset combinations of parameters and save the 
results without me tending to it.  I envision a spreadsheet where I list out 
all of the parameter values for each run, and the model picks out the 
parameters, runs through a year's worth of data, and saves the summary sheet, 
then steps to the next set of variables.  In this way I could set it to run a 
bunch of times over night or something so it wouldn't tie up the work day.  
Would this be just a separate macro?  What do you think?

Mat





Tom Halliburton@ENRON
02/22/2001 08:01 AM
To: Matt Smith/NA/Enron@ECT
cc:  

Subject: Solver Licence Key

Hi Mat,
I took away your licence key from the back of your PC yesterday.  The 
problems with our network licence for the solver have gone away - I do not 
really understand what happened.  Try the model aand see if it works OK - 
runs fine on my computer now, whereas it did not run 2 weeks ago.  I suspect 
some sort of network problem, and IT have not been able to figure out any 
more likely cause.

Tom