Eliminating the dependency on the licensed Mosek

[finmod]

A giant step for practitioners of Master Equations.
The package runs fine with a trial license (30 days) of Mosek. It would be wise to have a open alternative package from the JuliaOpt community in place.

[FHoltorf]

Hey @finmod

Apologies for the late response but I am excited to hear that you like this little passion project of mine!

Do you mean that I should describe in the docs where to find and how to use open source SDP solvers in place of Mosek?

I think that would be a good idea but also to manage expectations: A sad reality is that there is a huge gap between the performance of commercial and open source tools for semidefinite programming (conic optimization in general) and it is particularly felt for sum-of-squares programming.

Best,
Flemming

[finmod]

Hi Flemming,

Yes. An open source alternative to solver = optimizer_with_attributes(Mosek.Optimizer, "LOG" => 0) in the docs would be perfect for any user that runs into trouble with mosek.lic.

It would also quantify the performance gap that you mention.

Thanks