Marina,
Sorry, but just seeing the presolve and root probing stats from one of the two solvers does not tell us anything. What we would need to see would be the full logs (or at least a significant chunk), starting with the root node processing and including a decent amount of the branching ... and we would need to see the logs from both 20.1 and 22.1, so that we could look for differences.
As for node throughput, that is not reported directly but can be inferred from the logs. The logs indicate cumulative node count and periodically contain a line indicating elapsed time. Putting those together, we can get a ballpark estimate of nodes crunched per second.
Paul
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Paul Rubin
Professor Emeritus
Michigan State University
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed July 27, 2022 05:58 AM
From: Marina Steinberg
Subject: CPLEX 22.1 performance is slower than 20.1
Thank you, Paul, for your response. Below you can see examples of times recorded by our log which are slower in 22.1. Looks like it is slower improving the BIS and i don't think that the node throughput is reported for us. I am also including a screenshot of our settings - please take a look - maybe there's a setting that we ignore but could optimize performance? Thank you for all the help!
Root node processing (before b&c):
Real time = 28.72 sec. (13791.13 ticks)
Total (root+branch&cut) = 28.72 sec. (13791.13 ticks)
Presolve time = 1.34 sec. (570.56 ticks)
Found incumbent of value 3.1115092e+11 - This is BIS value! - after 1.75 sec. (796.01 ticks)
Probing time = 0.11 sec. (31.71 ticks)
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Marina Steinberg
Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 26, 2022 11:35 AM
From: Paul Rubin
Subject: CPLEX 22.1 performance is slower than 20.1
In a side by side comparison of node logs (using 20.1 v. 22.1), can you identify a specific change? Is the node throughput (nodes per second) worse with 22.1? Is 22.1 slower improving the best solution, or slower improving the best bound?
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Paul Rubin
Professor Emeritus
Michigan State University
Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 26, 2022 09:59 AM
From: Marina Steinberg
Subject: CPLEX 22.1 performance is slower than 20.1
Hi, all. In the latest release of our software we've upgraded CPLEX from 20.1 to 22.1 and noticed significant time increase when executing identical simulation with identical CPLEX settings between our previous version (with CPLEX 20.1) and latest one. I believe CPLEX settings are mostly default except for the Relative Gap. It's set to 0.8 for this particular client. Any suggestions which settings are worth tweaking to speed up 22.1 performance?
I appreciate an advice from the experts.
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Marina Steinberg
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