The access.ilm file included in the distribution no longer works.
This page contains initial setup instructions on both personal computers and on your RCS account, further notes, and a timeline of updates to cplex (last update May, 2008).
Instructions for installing CPLEX 9.1 are
here.
The access.ilm file included in the distribution no longer works.
Installing AMPL and CPLEX on your Windows computer
Our license now allows you to
install these programs on your own machine.
Once you've installed the programs, you run them from a command prompt window.
You can even run them from off-campus as long as you have
Cisco VPN
running.
Initial setup instructions on RCS
These instructions tell you how to configure your RCS account to
be able to use CPLEX 11.0 and AMPL.
The following steps need only be performed once:
You can then run the programs by just typing cplex
or ampl
at a UNIX prompt.
ILOG_LICENSE_FILE=/campus/ilog/cplex/11/common/access.ilm
export ILOG_LICENSE_FILE
PATH=/dept/math/math-programming/cplex11/@sys:/dept/math/math-programming/ampl11/@sys:$PATH
export PATH
source .login_profile
to make sure that you haven't damaged your .login_profile.
ILOG_LICENSE_FILE=/campus/ilog/cplex/11/common/access.ilm
export ILOG_LICENSE_FILE
Again, you should make sure that your .bashrc file is working properly
before logging out, by typing
source .bashrc
Notes
Timeline and Updates
CPLEX 11, AMPL 11, and OPL 5.5 were purchased.
We have updated the access.ilm file so we now
use version 9.1 of cplex, and we can now solve quadratically
constrained problems, including quadratically constrained
integer programs.
If you have previously installed cplex on your personal PC,
you will need to download this updated file in order to take
advantage of the added functionality.
Instructions for getting this file are in Steps 2 and 3 of the
instructions for installing the programs on your
machine.
Our license server was updated.
Therefore, you may need to update your access.ilm file.
Instructions for getting this file are in Steps 2 and 3 of the
instructions for installing the programs on your
machine.
CPLEX 9.0 was installed in March 2005.
If you have difficulties running CPLEX 9.0,
please
let me know.