Given that tomorrow Apple will likely announce the first ARM Macs (per bloomberg), I was wondering what the current status of ARM support in optimization software. For instance, does anyone know if Gurobi or CPLEX plan on supporting ARM? Is there any current optimization solver that can be compiled for ARM?
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2$\begingroup$ The package coinor-cbc is contained in Ubuntu for ARM, so CBC should run on arm. According to here, also SCIP should run on ARM. I would also expect that Gurobi and CPLEX will continue supporting Macs, but of course, I don't know. $\endgroup$– T_OJun 22, 2020 at 6:05
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2$\begingroup$ Do not hold your breath for ARM support at Mac. In any case we at www.mosek.com has an ARM build for Linux we let users try. $\endgroup$– ErlingMOSEKJun 22, 2020 at 6:37
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$\begingroup$ It seems ARM on MAC is coming end of 2021. A big question is how fast optimization software that is floating intensive will run on the ARM CPUs. $\endgroup$– ErlingMOSEKJun 23, 2020 at 5:23
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$\begingroup$ @ErlingMOSEK I second that, guarantying the numerics on a different architecture is a function of many things (including compilers), plus the added complexity of maintaining all current builds & integrations on multiple architectures, so unfortunately I don't see many of us investing resources to support that until there is sufficient market demand. $\endgroup$– Nikos KazazakisJun 24, 2020 at 12:48
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1$\begingroup$ Gurobi latest release is now providing native support the M1. gurobi.com/news/… $\endgroup$– David TorresJan 19 at 13:56
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CPLEX does not provide ARM support yet but there is a request for enhancement at
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=126844
and you may vote for this
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$\begingroup$ Does this voting for features also exist for Gurobi? $\endgroup$ Jun 24, 2020 at 7:21