Oberdieck | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?
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Oberdieck | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?
Disclaimer: I work for Gurobi, but these views are my own.
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I'm sorry to hear that you find our licensing frustrating. It is true that in the past we focused a lot on local deployments holding on to the notion of a physical machine. However, we have added a few licensing options that you might find interesting, specifically the Web License Service (https://www.gurobi.com/web-license-service/), where you can get a short-lived JSON Web Token inside of a Docker container which renews automatically. You can find our Docker Hub images here (https://hub.docker.com/orgs/gurobi/repositories).
There are also other ways like the Instant Cloud (https://www.gurobi.com/products/gurobi-instant-cloud/) which give you a very scalable SaaS approach.
Feel free to reach out to me (<lastname>@gurobi.com) to discuss more!
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Sorry to hear you found our licensing problematic! You might find interesting that we now have developed a Web License Service (https://www.gurobi.com/web-license-service/), where you can retrieve a short-lived JSON Web Token inside of your container to run Gurobi; our Docker Hub images are here: https://hub.docker.com/orgs/gurobi/repositories.
From what you are saying ("autoscaling containers"), this may be a good fit for you. What do you think?