Installation of Gurobi

• Download from https://www.gurobi.com/downloads/

• Register to get an academic license. It will last three months.

• Install Gurobi following the instructions at the Quick Start Guide relative to your system. You can install all software via the (Ana)conda Python distribution. However, note that if you have already Python installed you may end up having two distributions of it in your systems, which often creates confusion. Hence, the conda distribution is not recommended in this course.

• Install the Gurobi Python Interface (gurobipy) following these instructions

• run grbgetkey using the argument provided at the license registration page (ex: grbgetkey ae36ac20-16e6-acd2-f242-4da6e765fa0a). The ‘grbgetkey’ program will prompt you to store the license file on your machine (to do this step you must be within the SDU Net via VPN connect).

Recommended documentation material

Gurobi has an excellent documentation, which it may appear overwhelming. Here is a list of recommended material:

• you can get an introduction to modeling in Python with gurobi watching at least the first 34 minutes of this video: Python I: Introduction to modeling with Python

• two other tutorials on LP and MILP are available

• an abundance of application cases

• examples

• the Application Program Interface (API).