Just to make myself clear, at first, we are seeking a solver available with AIMSS, as we intend to use it as our benchmarking in the research.
Hi @cvictorr2508
within the AIMMS Developer system there is a specific set available for MILP that can be used freely by Academics: CPLEX, Gurobi, COPT (all commercial solvers), and CBC (open source).
https://documentation.aimms.com/platform/solvers/solvers.html
A good benchmark, but does not include all commercial MILP solver is the one of prof. Hans Mittelmann:
http://plato.asu.edu/sub/benchm.html
It’s good to realize that a benchmark as above uses default settings of the solver. In some cases, you really have to tune differently (eg using a depth-first vs a breadth-first search) for a model. So it says a lot, but the results can’t be copied to any model. In addition, they way you model can also have a huge effect; especially if models get large and complex. So depending on the size of your models, you need to do more than just formulating a straightforward model and send it to a solver.
For example:
or this,
https://how-to.aimms.com/Articles/108/108-kb07-speed-up-mip-solve.html
Hi, @Gertjan. Thank you very much for your reply. Any considerations about parallel programming related to solvers?
Parallel (within a solve) can certainly help, but often only to a certain extend (e.g. more than 8 threads no longer serves you). In some cases, it does not help at all. Again, it depends on the problem and also on the algorithm/solver used.
Can imagine your research can be very valuable. Some others have published about it as well. See e.g.
https://www.google.com/search?q=parallel+and+mip+solvers