Introducing performance features of the MIP optimizer

Describes performance features generally.

The CPLEX Mixed Integer Optimizer contains a wealth of features intended to aid in the solution of challenging MIP models. While default strategies are provided that solve the majority of models without user involvement, there exist difficult models that benefit from attention to performance tuning.

To help you decide whether default settings of parameters are best for your model, or whether other parameter settings may improve performance, the tuning tool is available. Tuning tool explains more about this utility and directs you to examples of its use.

This section discusses the CPLEX features and parameters that are the most likely to offer help with difficult models.