| Developer(s) | Gurobi Optimization |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4.6 |
| Development status | Active |
| Type | Operations Research, Mathematical optimization |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Gurobi Homepage |
Gurobi is a commercial software package for solving large-scale linear optimization, quadratic optimization, and mixed-integer optimization problems. Gurobi is named for its founders: Zonghao Gu, Edward Rothberg and Robert Bixby; Bixby was also the founder of CPLEX, while Rothberg and Gu led the CPLEX development team for nearly a decade.[1]
Gurobi was designed from the beginning to take advantage of parallel and multi-core processors. Gurobi performance solving mixed integer programs is comparable to that of established solvers: Compared with CPLEX, "Gurobi solves MIPs faster on single-processor machines..., Gurobi parallelizes robustly..., Aggregate solution times are less on Gurobi..., [and] Gurobi is good at finding integer feasible solutions."[2],[3] Also Gurobi provides a Python scripting interface.[4]
Gurobi Optimzation released version 4.6 [5] of the Gurobi Optimizer in November, 2011.
Gurobi offers a wide range of innovative licensing options. These include free trial licenses, free academic licenses, Pay-By-The-Day, and the Gurobi Cloud. Commercial licenses are based on number of CPU sockets used, and are not tied to number of processing cores used.
Gurobi is supported in the AIMMS, AMPL, GAMS, MPL, Microsoft Solver Foundation, Frontline Systems and TOMLAB modeling systems.
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