List of optimization software

=Free and Open Source software=

* [http://www.ime.usp.br/~egbirgin/tango ALGENCAN] — Fortran code for general nonlinear programming. Interfaces with AMPL, C/C++, CUTEr, Matlab, Python, Octave and R.
*ASCEND — mathematical modelling system
*COIN-OR SYMPHONY — integer programming, Common Public License
*CUTEr — testing environment for optimization and linear algebra solvers
*Investigative Optimization Library — BSD license
*IPOPT— large scale nonlinear optimization for continuous systems, CPL
*L-BFGS — limited-memory quasi-Newton packages for large scale optimization, BSD-like license
*OpenOpt (license: BSD) — toolbox with connections to lots of solvers, for Python language programmers

Proprietary software

* [http://www.aimms.com/aimms/index.cgi?dm=wikipedia AIMMS] — optimization modeling system, including GUI building facilities
*BootVis
*CPLEX — integer, linear and quadratic programming
*Contig (defragmentation utility)
*General Algebraic Modeling System
*Inverse (program) — inverse and optimization problems
*modeFRONTIER — multidistciplinary design optimization, for computer-aided engineering
*IOSO — multidisciplinary design optimization, for computer-aided engineering
*SNOPT — large-scale optimization problems
*SoftRAM — PC optimization, Microsoft Windows
*TOMLAB — optimization environment platform for solving applied optimization problems in MATLAB
*TOMNET — just like TOMLAB, but in Microsoft .NET
*WARP — performance product for IBM mainframes, now defunct.

hareware

*jv16 powertools — Windows optimization, Microsoft Windows
*System Mechanic — PC optimization, Microsoft Windows

Freeware

*Galahad library — free for academic use
*KNITRO — large-scale mathematical optimization problems. Freeware for non-commercial uses.
*MINTO — integer programming solver using branch and bound algorithm. Freeware for personal use.