Hrothgar is a parallel minimizer and Markov Chain Monte Carlo generator by Andisheh Mahdavi of San Francisco State University. It has been used to solve optimization problems in astrophysics (galaxy cluster mass profiles) as well as in experimental particle physics (hadronic tau decays). It is probably adaptable enough to be applied to your merit function if you can write it in C.
A HP41CV simulator for the Android platform. This version is the second beta release and includes nearly all functionality of the HP41CV including running programmes. Programmes can be imported / exported on csv format. A simple programme editor incl