I am happy to see the new DevLabs page for Solver Foundation , and our new Solver Foundation forum . Read all about it on Soma's blog . I also wanted to mention that over the next few weeks we will be announcing some great additions to the already impressive collection of connectors (aka plugins) for...

Two days ago, my boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss Soma announced the launch of several Technical Computing projects on Dev Labs. One of these projects, Sho , is an Iron Python-based environment for doing math, stats, optimization, and the like. Sho’s optimization libraries are powered by...

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On the Solver Foundation team blog we have just announced the release of Solver Foundation 3.0! I am very excited about this release and hope that you will try it out. I had an absolute blast demoing and talking about our release with partners, customers, and INFORMS 2010 conference attendees in Austin...

(As always, this post reflects my own views and not necessarily those of Microsoft.) I recently returned from the INFORMS conference on operations research in Austin, Texas. INFORMS is the most popular professional organization relating to the theory and practice of operations research - which includes...

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Dual values, or shadow prices , represent the marginal utility of relaxing a constraint. They are often used during the post-solve analysis of an optimization model. If you solve a linear or mixed integer model using a solver class such as SimplexSolver, you can get the dual values from the solver solution...

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The Solver Foundation team now has an official MSDN blog . The URL is http://blogs.msdn.com/solverfoundation/ . The team will be posting additional samples, pointers, and information of interest to the Solver Foundation community. I will be posting there occasionally too!

The team has been hard at work on the next version of Solver Foundation . Here are some early details. We hope to release 2.1 later this spring and we'll be updating all the SKUs, including the brand new Academic version available on MSDNAA . Our focus for this release is on improving the development...

Microsoft Solver Foundation is now available for professors, students, and researchers through the MSDN Academic Alliance site. If your academic institution has a Developer AA subscription then you will be able to download the unthrottled Enterprise edition of Solver Foundation (and tons of other stuff...

UPDATE 4/28/2010: We are no longer seeking new applicants for the position. Perhaps next summer! The Solver Foundation team is looking for an intern for this summmer! A short description is below – this is a software development position, where the focus is on practical application of numerical optimization...

In a previous post I wrote about the Term class and its use in building Solver Foundation models. Now I'd like to explore the use of Term in large models. It's also an opportunity to put into practice some of the things I talked about in my " writing high performance code " post. Terms are the building...