Scippy

SCIP

Solving Constraint Integer Programs

Available implementations of the LP solver interface

SCIP provides a range of different interfaces to LP solvers:

LPI name LP solver
spx SoPlex
cpx IBM ILOG CPLEX
xprs FICO XPress
grb Gurobi (version at least 7.0.2 required)
clp CoinOR CLP (interface currently sometimes produces wrong results)
glop Google Glop (contained in OR-tools)
msk Mosek (version at least 7.0.0 required)
qsopt QSopt (experimental)
none disables LP solving entirely (not recommended; only for technical reasons)

There are two different interfaces for SoPlex. The default one (spx) uses an updated interface that is provided by SoPlex itself (since version 2.0), resulting in a slimmer LPI that is similiar to those for CPLEX or XPRESS. The other one - spx1 - is the older LPI that directly interfaces the internal simplex solver of SoPlex and therefore needs to duplicate some features in the LPI that are already available in SoPlex itself. It lacks some features like persistent scaling which are only available in the modern interface. Upcoming features may not be supported. Old compilers might have difficulties with the new interface because some C++11 features are required that may not be supported.