Parallel optimizers

Parallel optimizers are available in CPLEX.

CPLEX supports both multithreaded and distributed parallel optimization.

Parallel barrier, parallel MIP, and concurrent optimizers are implemented to run on hardware platforms with parallel processors. These parallel optimizers can be called from the Interactive Optimizer and the Component Libraries.

When small models, such as those in this document, are being solved, the effect of parallelism will generally be negligible. On larger models, the effect is ordinarily beneficial to solution speed.

See the topic Parallel optimization in the CPLEX User's Manual for information about using CPLEX on a parallel computer.