Cardinal Optimizer (COPT) User Guide
Dongdong Ge, Qi Huangfu, Zizhuo Wang, Jian Wu, Yinyu Ye
TL;DR
Cardinal Optimizer User Guide comprehensively documents how to install, license, and operate the Cardinal Optimizer solver across major platforms and languages. It details licensing models including Personal, Server, Floating, and Cluster, and describes floating token and compute cluster services, Web Licensing, and related tooling. The guide emphasizes a multi‑language API ecosystem (C, C++, C#, Java, Python, AMPL, Pyomo, PuLP, CVXPY) and provides extensive Quick Start examples for end‑to‑end problem solving. Practically, it enables deployment in diverse environments—from standalone desktops to cloud containers and HPC clusters—through stepwise setup, configuration, and example workflows.
Abstract
Cardinal Optimizer is a high-performance mathematical programming solver for efficiently solving largescale optimization problem. This documentation provides basic introduction to the Cardinal Optimizer.