cuOpt Wins the 2025 COIN-OR Cup

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cuOpt Wins the 2025 COIN-OR Cup

We are pleased to announce that the NVIDIA cuOpt team has been awarded the 2025 COIN-OR Cup. This award is given annually by the COIN-OR Foundation to the best open-source project contribution in decision optimization and operations research.

cuOpt supports solving linear programming (LP), mixed-integer programming (MIP), and vehicle routing problems (VRP) on NVIDIA GPUs, achieving competitive performance across diverse benchmarks. The team’s effort to open-source high-quality, industry-grade optimization code represents a major contribution to both the optimization community and the open-source ecosystem. cuOpt has already started a chain reaction in the optimization solver community toward innovating new accelerated algorithms, making GPUs a highly competitive platform for solving large-scale complex optimization problems. Its comprehensive documentation, educational examples, accessible codebase, and integration with other optimization software vendors make it remarkably easy to adopt — empowering researchers and practitioners to leverage GPU computing for modern optimization challenges.

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📖 Check out our latest blog post, which covers the basics of linear programs, introduces the new GPU-accelerated barrier method, and provides detailed benchmark data on its performance.

⬇️ To get hands-on experience, we've created a new notebook that guides you through the process of installing cuOpt 25.10, running the new barrier method, and controlling important settings like presolve and folding. This is a great resource for anyone looking to dive deeper into the technical details.