CVX support for MOSEK announced

CVX version 2 now supports MOSEK version 7.

MOSEK version 7 preview.

The upcoming MOSEK version 7 is now available for download and preview. All required material is available at the MOSEK version 7 beta page.

Academic license

As of today January the 17th 2013 MOSEK has stopped selling academic licenses. The reason is that academics can use MOSEK free of charge using the academic initiative. Therefore, over the last year the number of academic sales has been too few to justify separate academic licenses.

Micosoft Solver Foundation support in MOSEK

The future of Microsoft Solver Foundation is highly uncertain. See for instance the recent thread at the Solver Foundation Forum. Therefore, the upcoming MOSEK version 7 does not include support for Solver Foundation and we can only offer limited support for using Solver Foundation within MOSEK version 6.

Currently, we advice MOSEK users to employ the MOSEK optimizer API or the MOSEK Fusion API instead of Solver Foundation on the Microsoft .NET platform. If Solver Foundation becomes an actively developed product again we will of course work with the new development team to have MOSEK support.

MOSEK Support

MOSEK modeling manual

A new manual about how to model optimization problems is now available at docs.mosek.com. It provides many tips and tricks about how to formulate optimization problems so they can be solved by MOSEK.

MOSEK version 6.0.0.147

MOSEK version 6.0.0.147 is available for download at the MOSEK website.

The most important changes are:

• Fixed a bug that made the optimizer ignore the parameter MSK_DPAR_TOL_LIN_DEP.
• Updated Flexlm to resolve an issue with locating the right network interface.
• Fixed a bug in the function getname functions affecting the .NET, Java and Python interfaces.
• Fixed a bug in the function MSK_removecone.
• Fixed a bug that made conic mixed integer optimizer ignoring an initial feasible solution.
• Fixed a bug in the network simplex optimizer.
• Fixed a number of bugs in the mixed integer optimizer.
• Fixed a bug in MSK_putcone.
• Fixed a bug in the AMPL interface.

AMPL book is freely available.

The AMPL book is now freely available for on-line browsing and download.