Nathan Brixius

Hey, did you know that Solver Foundation can solve unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems? Yep, it's true. Few people know about it because 1) we haven't talked about it too much and 2) it is not accessible from the SFS (which means you can't use Read More...

My wife gave birth to a healthy baby daugther last night! Mom, baby, (and dad) are all doing well. I will be spending some time at home with the newest addition to our family, so I will go easy on the blog posts for awhile. When I come back I will do Read More...

I'm pleased to announce the release of Solver Foundation 2.0, available at solverfoundation.com . We've added capabilities that allow Solver Foundation to solve important categories of optimization problems, improved the performance and stability our Read More...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about one of our big features for Solver Foundation 2.0: stochastic programming . In this post I want to talk about a new solver for 2.0: an interior-point solver for Second Order Conic Programming (SOCP). Second Order Conic Read More...