News - Fair Isaac Announces Release of Xpress-MP 2008A

Fair Isaac today announced the release of Xpress-MP 2008A. Xpress-MP 2008A gives users more power to solve their hardest optimization problems even faster than before.

New optimization solvers in Xpress-MP 2008A include:

Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming solver which can be used to solve portfolio optimization problems, optimization problems in statistics, and transport or facility location problems involving quadratic distance measures
Convex Nonlinear Programming solver which can be used to solve certain nonlinear problems in engineering and chemistry

New features in Xpress-MP 2008A include:

Multiple Solution and N-best Solution Support to give Xpress-MP users more information to make the optimal decision for their business problems.
Deterministic Parallel MIP which for a given problem guarantees the same optimal solution every time it is run.
Xpress-Tuner to give users the power to tune the Xpress-Optimizer to their specific problem. No knowledge of control parameters is needed so even novice users of Xpress-MP can now fine-tune the Xpress-Optimizer to unleash Xpress-MP’s full power for their problems. This full release of the Tuner improves on the beta version with Parallel solving, improved tuning methods and streamlined disk usage.

Xpress-Optimizer 19.00.00

Optimization performance has been improved across a wide range of models. The table below shows the performance comparison with release 2007B for the Dash standard QA set of models:

Algorithm 2008A improvement over 2007B

Primal 50%

Dual 27%

MIP 45%

To download your free evaluation of Xpress-MP 2008A please click here .