The Large-Scale LP Solver

The Large-Scale LP Solver combines the power of the most advanced LP solution methods with the features of the Premium Solver. You can solve "industrial strength" LP models in a form that encourages rapid development and modification, and present results in a format that your management or client will understand.

Because the Large-Scale LP Solver represents problems in an internal "sparse matrix" form, it can handle LP models of many thousands of variables and constraints, which would require megabytes of memory and hours of solution time using the standard Solver, or even the Premium Solver.

Due to the intrinsic finite precision of computer arithmetic, which becomes an important factor in large LP models, a standard Simplex method such as that used in the standard Solver or the Premium Solver may be foiled by numerical "instability" and fail to find the optimal solution. The Large-Scale LP Solver uses sophisticated methods of scaling, matrix factorization and pivoting to overcome the problems of finite precision arithmetic; it can find solutions to LP models which would have been considered numerically intractable a few years ago. The same methods contribute to solution speed on problems that formerly took many "pivots" or iterations to solve.

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