OR/MS Today, June 2011

Linear Programming Survey
Table 8



Product

Solvers or Modeling Environments

Solvers/Modeling Environments that Link to Product Available bundled with above as a single package Available separately to customers who separately purchase (or have purchased) one of the above
AIMMS Cplex, Gurobi, Xpress, Mosek, Xa, Cbc, Conopt, Knitro, Snopt, Minos, Ipopt, Baron, Lgo, CP Optimizer, Path, etc. + Open Solver Interface y y
AMPL CPLEX, Gurobi, CONOPT, KNITRO, MINOS, SNOPT, 30+ others listed at www.ampl.com y y
C-WHIZ DATAFORM y
CBC CoinMP, MPL, GAMS, others y y
CLP MPL, GAMS, CBC, SCIP, SYMPHONY, others y
CoinMP Open-Source Solver MPL Modeling System y y
Coopr GLPK, CBC, PICO, CPLEX, GUROBI, Any ASL Solver y
DATAFORM C-WHIZ y
FICO Xpress Optimization Suite AMPL, GAMS y y
Frontier Analyst 4
GAMS all major commercial codes, COIN-OR solvers y y
GENO GAUSS y
GIPALS - Linear Programming Environment  Gipals32 y
Gipals32 - Linear Programming Library GIPALS y
GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) GNU Octave
Gurobi Optimizer 4.5 AIMMS, AMPL, Frontline Systems, GAMS, Microsoft Solver Foundation, MPL, OptimJ, TOMLAB, y y
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio In addition to its own OPL language and IDE: IBM ILOG ODM Enterprise, AIMMS, AMPL, GAMS, MPL, MATLAB, Microsoft Solver Foundation, TOMLAB y y
KNITRO AMPL, AIMMS, GAMS, Frontline Systems Risk Solver Platform and Premium Solver Platform for Excel, MATLAB, Mathematica, Microsoft Solver Foundation, MPL y y
LINDO API Matlab, GAMS, MPL, LINGO and What'sBest y y
LINGO TG Optima Investment Optimizer y
LOQO AMPL, GAMS, MATLAB y
Mathematical Modeling System gurobi, cplex, xpress, mops, lindo, conopt, knitro, etc. y
OML (Optimization and Modeling Library) C-WHIZ, AMPL, GAMS, Xpress y
Microsoft Solver Foundation Gurobi, Mosek, Knitro, lindo, lp_solve, Frontline Solver SDK, CPLEX, COIN (coming soon) y
MOSEK AMPL, AIMMS, GAMS, Microsft Solver Foundation.
MPL Modeling System Cplex, Gurobi, Xpress, XA, Mops, Lindo, FortMP, CoinMP, Glpk, LPSolve, Conopt, Knitro, Lgo, Path, Excel y y
OMP Plus
OptiMax Component Library Cplex, Gurobi, Xpress, XA, Mops, Lindo, FortMP, CoinMP, Glpk, LPSolve, Conopt, Knitro, Lgo, Path y y
OptimJ lp_solve, GLPK, Gurobi, Mosek, CPLEX, LP and MPS file formats y
Oracle Crystal Ball Suite
PICO AMPL, Pyomo y
Premium Solver Platform 5 built-in solvers, 8 additional plug-in solvers including LP/QP, Gurobi, XPRESS, MOSEK, KNITRO, LSGRG, LSSQP, and OptQuest y y
Premium Solver Pro 3 built-in solvers including an LP Simplex, GRG nonlinear, and an evolutionary engine y
QMS
Risk Solver Platform 5 built-in solvers, 8 plug-in solvers including LP/QP, Gurobi, Xpress, Mosek, KNITRO, LSGRG, LSSQP, and OptQuest y y
SAS
SCIP GAMS, Comet, G12 y y
Solver SDK Platform 4 built-in solvers, 8 plug-in solvers including LP/QP, Gurobi, Xpress, Mosek, KNITRO, LSGRG, LSSQP, and OptQuest y y
Solver SDK Pro 3 built in solvers including an LP Simplex, GRG nonlinear, and evolutionary engine y
SoPlex SCIP, COIN-OSI, GAMS
SOPT (Smart Optimizer) 4.2 AMPL y y
Vanguard Global Optimizer
What'sBest!
XA AIMMS, AMPL, GAMS, and MPL y y
YALMIP CPLEX, GUROBU, MOSEK, XPRESS, LPSOLVE, GLPK, QPC,QSOPT,LINPROG

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