IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio Stability

it_user766614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Post Doctorate Research Fellow at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

For some types of problems the performance is stable. There are other algorithms, like MetaRisk and generic algorithms, that perform much worse than CPLEX. Though if I were able to get some insights as to what type of problems perform best on CPLEX I would be able to use it more efficiently.

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GZ
Professor

It is pretty stable. It has not crashed this time, though this did happen with the older version when I worked on a large problem.

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it_user766629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Professor at University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine

I haven't had any negative experience with stability.

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it_user766632 - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Assistant at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
it_user766596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Scientist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is good.

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it_user766635 - PeerSpot reviewer
Graduate Student at a university with 10,001+ employees

I have not faced any issues with instability in CPLEX. My problem-size is not that big. I'm not trying to explain super large problems.

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YZ
Phd Student at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

I think it's pretty stable.

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it_user766590 - PeerSpot reviewer
Graduate Research Assistant at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is pretty stable. I have never had any crashes.

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it_user766563 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Professor at University Of Florida

From what I've experienced, it doesn't crash that much. There have been a few crashes but compared to the other tools, it is better. 

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it_user766599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago

I have not had any issues with stability.

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it_user766593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Graduate Research Assistant at University Of Tennessee Space Institute

You need to learn how to play with the settings so it doesn't crash. But if you run on the default settings and your program size is large, it might crash after about an hour.

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it_user766572 - PeerSpot reviewer
Phd Candidate

The stability is okay. For now, I haven't seen it crash. I have seen it become numerically unstable. One of the nice things about CPLEX is that it lets you know that there are certain numerical instabilities. I think that the new feature that they released in the 12.7 version manages to identify that these things are pernicious before trying to solve them, and it recommends other ways to correct that. 

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it_user766626 - PeerSpot reviewer
Phd Student at University Of Florida

Stability is fine. It's reasonable. Most of the problems are getting slower if I increase the number of nodes or something, but it's a typical thing.

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it_user766569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Phd Student at Bogazici University

It is stable, though, in one case I noticed that the dual values of the decision variables were not in the correct order. But I managed to find the correct way of presenting that situation and I selected it.

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it_user766584 - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Assistant

I have not experienced any issues with stability but I have heard from my friends that there are other tools which can perform better than CPLEX sometimes, in terms of computation. 

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it_user766608 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Professor

The stability is reasonably good. Every single version has some bug, which I somehow always encounter. Some of these issues are really severe and literally crash the engine. Very rarely, I find issues which actually impact the accuracy of the results. That has happened twice so far. In general, it is okay.

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WL
Graduate Research Assistant

Compared with C++, which I used before, for larger transportation networks, CPLEX will take a longer time. For the shorter ones, it's very quick.

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it_user766620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Great. It never crashed. No lag time.

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it_user766581 - PeerSpot reviewer
Phd Student

Mostly it is good but sometimes it is very slow. My program, my problem, is a little bigger and my scale is a little larger.

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