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IBM ILOG CPLEX Teaching Edition

  • 1.  IBM ILOG CPLEX Teaching Edition

    Posted 01/19/10 03:03 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    The following message is largely superseded by the recent announcement in this forum titled "Full-version CPLEX now available free-of-charge to academics". However the version described below does continue to be available for download.
    Readers of this Forum may be interested to know about the IBM ILOG CPLEX Teaching Edition. Intended for instructional use, this edition is available through the IBM Academic Initiative, a program from IBM to distribute free software and courseware to professors at accredited academic institutions. The CPLEX Teaching Edition comes with a non-expiring license and contains all the capabilities of the full IBM ILOG CPLEX Developer Edition Version 12.1, with the exception that the problem to be solved must be dimensionally limited to 500 variables and 500 constraints.

    Like its unlimited counterpart, the IBM ILOG CPLEX Teaching Edition provides the new connectors to Microsoft Excel and MATLAB, which are frequently used as modeling interfaces in classroom settings. The new Python API is included as well, along with longtime APIs for C, C++, Java and C#. Problem variants involving integer and/or continuous variables, and linear and/or convex quadratic constraints and objective functions, are all supported.

    Complementing this offering is the IBM ILOG OPL-CPLEX Analyst Studio Teaching Edition, which allows use of the algebraic modeling language OPL, has the same 500x500 limit on solving models with CPLEX, and also includes IBM ILOG CP Optimizer with a 10,000 variable limit on Constraint Programming formulations.

    IBM ILOG CPLEX Teaching Edition is available for 32-bit ports of Windows, MacOS, and Linux; IBM ILOG OPL-CPLEX Analyst Studio Teaching Edition is available for 32-bit Windows. If you have a 64-bit Linux system, the 32-bit version should be appropriate since the problem sizes are not sufficient to exceed 32-bit memory addressing; however, Python users may need to rebuild with a 32-bit Python 2.4 version, using source and makefiles obtainable from www.python.org.  MATLAB users on 64-bit systems should use the 32-bit version of MATLAB when connecting to CPLEX.

    Once you have been accepted in the IBM Academic Initiative, visit https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/university/software/get_software.html and click on "Download from the Software Catalog". Use "Find by search text" and enter "CPLEX" for the product name, on the search results page expand the appropriate product listing, and then select which eAssembly to download. (The Linux download is labeled "Multiplatform".)

    90-day limited trials with the same 500x500 and 10000 variable limits for CPLEX and OPL-CPLEX Analyst Studio for those not currently associated with an accredited university or students are now also available from the student portal of AI and on ibm.com at https://www.ibm.com/services/forms/preLogin.do?source=swg-iilogcte121t . For an evaluation copy of a full version of these products, contact an IBM sales representative.
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