OR/MS Today, June 2011
Linear Programming Survey
Table 3
| Product | Platforms Supported |
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| PC / Windows | PC / Linux | Mac OS | Other OS | Multicore and Multiprocessor Support |
Shared Memory |
Distributed Memory |
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| AIMMS | y | y | Cplex, Gurobi, Mosek | |||||||||
| AMPL | y | y | y | Solaris, AIX, HP-UX | ||||||||
| C-WHIZ | y | |||||||||||
| CBC | y | y | y | Other Unix | Yes | |||||||
| CLP | y | y | y | |||||||||
| CoinMP Open-Source Solver | y | y | y | Solaris | ||||||||
| Coopr | y | y | y | Portable to any platform that can run Python | ||||||||
| DATAFORM | y | |||||||||||
| FICO Xpress Optimization Suite | y | y | Solaris, HPUX, AIX | All | All (modeling) | |||||||
| Frontier Analyst 4 | y | Windows multi-core | ||||||||||
| GAMS | y | y | y | AIX, SUN SOLARIS | all above (if supported by solver) | yes (through GAMS Grid Computing Facility) | ||||||
| GENO | y | y | y | |||||||||
| GIPALS - Linear Programming Environment | y | PC/Windows | ||||||||||
| Gipals32 - Linear Programming Library | y | Windows | ||||||||||
| GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) | y | y | y | MMIX Donald Knuth's 64-bit RISC | ||||||||
| Gurobi Optimizer 4.5 | y | y | y | AIX | All that support shared memory | |||||||
| IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio | y | y | y | IBM AIX, IBM System p and z Linux, HP-UX, Solaris (SPARC and Intel) | All supported platforms | |||||||
| KNITRO | y | y | y | |||||||||
| LINDO API | y | y | y | Solaris (32 and 64-bit) | 32 and 64-bit Windows and Linux | |||||||
| LINGO | y | y | 32 and 64-bit Windows and Linux | |||||||||
| LOQO | y | y | y | |||||||||
| Mathematical Modeling System | y | |||||||||||
| Microsoft Solver Foundation | y | |||||||||||
| MOSEK | y | y | y | Solaris | All platforms supprted platforms except Solaris. | |||||||
| MPL Modeling System | y | y | Sun Solaris | Windows, Linux, Unix | ||||||||
| OML (Optimization and Modeling Library) | y | |||||||||||
| OMP Plus | y | Windows | ||||||||||
| OptiMax Component Library | y | y | Sun Solaris | Windows, Linux, Unix | ||||||||
| OptimJ | y | y | y | anywhere a JVM is present | ||||||||
| Oracle Crystal Ball Suite | y | |||||||||||
| PICO | y | y | MPI-based compute clusters | |||||||||
| Premium Solver Platform | y | y | Windows / Mac OS X | Windows | ||||||||
| Premium Solver Pro | y | Windows | ||||||||||
| QMS | y | y | y | |||||||||
| Risk Solver Platform | y | Windows | Windows | |||||||||
| SAS | y | y | AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, z/OS | |||||||||
| SCIP | y | y | y | SunOS | ||||||||
| Solver SDK Platform | y | y | Windows / Linux | Windows / Linux | ||||||||
| Solver SDK Pro | y | y | Windows / Linux | |||||||||
| SoPlex | y | y | y | |||||||||
| SOPT (Smart Optimizer) 4.2 | y | y | Solaris 8, 9, 10 | |||||||||
| Vanguard Global Optimizer | y | Designed for Grid Computing | ||||||||||
| What'sBest! | y | 32 and 64-bit Windows | ||||||||||
| XA | y | y | y | Solaris, HP-UX and other Unix/Linux platforms | All Windows, Linux and Unix | |||||||
| YALMIP | y | y | y | |||||||||
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