ILOG CPLEX 11.0 User's Manual

C H A P T E R8Tuning ToolThe tuning tool, a utility to aid you in improving the performance of your optimizationapplications, analyzes a model or a group of models and suggests a suite of parametersettings for you to use that provide better performance than the default parameter settings foryour model or group of models. This chapter documents the tuning tool.◆ Meet the Tuning Tool on page 161◆ Invoking the Tuning Tool on page 163◆ Example: Time Limits on Tuning in the Interactive Optimizer on page 164◆ Fixing Parameters and Tuning Multiple Models in the Interactive Optimizer on page 165◆ Tuning Models in the Callable Library (C API) on page 166◆ Callbacks for Tuning on page 167◆ Terminating a Tuning Session on page 167Meet the Tuning ToolThe tuning tool looks at parameters to improve solving time. If your model suffers fromnumeric instability, the tuning tool will not attempt to correct that problem. Furthermore, ifthere is insufficient memory to accomodate optimization of your model, the tuning tool willILOG CPLEX 11.0 — USER’ S MANUAL 161