Tuesday, July 3, 2018

[DMANET] New Release 6.0 of the SCIP Optimization Suite

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the release of the SCIP Optimization Suite 6.0.
It consists of SCIP 6.0, SoPlex 4.0, ZIMPL 3.3.6, UG 0.8.6, and GCG 3.0.
A corresponding new version of SCIP-SDP 3.1.1 has been released.

New features of the SCIP Optimization Suite 6.0 include

- support for generic Benders' decomposition in SCIP and GCG,
- major updates to GCG's detection scheme for structured matrices,
- new conflict-driven diving heuristics,
- a new cut selection score involving the incumbent solution,
- support for stochastic programming problems in SMPS file format,
- a portable shared-memory communicator for UG based on C++11 threads,

and many further improvements and additions.

For more information check out our website http://scip.zib.de and the
accompanying release report with an in-depth description of the
enhancements, which is available at Optimization Online:

http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2018/07/6692.html

Best regards,
the SCIP team and friends
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
**********************************************************