Instance Created:  May 6, 2002
Number of Cities:  744710
Status:  OPEN
Best Tour:  1,611,534
Best Lower Bound:  xxx

History

Date	Gap	Lower Bound	Tour
12.08.02			1,612,132 - Found by Keld Helsgaun using variants of his LKH code.
3.21.03			1,612,036 - Found by Hung Dinh Nguyen using a hybrid genetic algorithm, starting with the above tour.
9.12.04			1,611,547 - Found by Keld Helsgaun using variants of his LKH code.
4.25.06			1,611,534 - Found by Keld Helsgaun using variants of his LKH code.

Notes

1. Concorde is our linear-programming based TSP solver.

2. linkern is an implementation of Martin, Otto, and Felten's Chained Lin-Kernighan heuristic. It is included in the Concorde code.

3. LKH is Keld Helsgaun's powerful implementation of the Lin-Kernighan heuristic.

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