Announcement: PySCIPOpt in the browser (WASM)

[AntoinePrv]

Hello,

We've build PySCIPOpt to run in the browser (thanks @mkoeppe that contributed libscip), that is without server. A no install setup where Python and SCIP run inside a web page, on your machine, in WASM.

I've built a notebook with the examples from this repo (and added some interactions).

🚀 https://notebook.link/@AntoinePrv/example-milp

This type of resources could also be added to documentation for people to try it out.

There are some limitations with WASM / browser but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this runs pretty smoothly!

The builds are part of emscripten-forge, a conda-based distribution for the browser, available here

https://github.com/emscripten-forge/recipes/tree/main/recipes/recipes_emscripten/pyscipopt

Hope it can help people use and teach with SCIP!

[Joao-Dionisio]

Thank you @AntoinePrv ! This should definitely be added to the documentation and the README 😄

[AntoinePrv]

Forgot to mention, this is the repo used by notebook.link to generate the bundle

https://github.com/QuantStack/notebook-link-example-milp

All the config live in .nblink/ (everything in pixi.toml was for local dev).
I do recommend to use mambajs to lokc the dependencies:

mambajs create-lock .nblink/environment.yml .nblink/nblink-lock.json

[mkoeppe]

Possible next steps for SCIP on Wasm:

• a Xeus Jupyter kernel for the SCIP shell
• Papilo (the onetbb dependency was packaged in Add onetbb emscripten-forge/recipes#5542)