2025 COIN-OR Cup Award: NVIDIA cuOpt

The 2025 COIN-OR Cup Committee (Daniel Bienstock, Haihao Lu, and Jinwen Yang) has released the following announcement:

We are pleased to announce that the NVIDIA cuOpt team is awarded the 2025 COIN-OR Cup for NVIDIA cuOpt. cuOpt supports solving linear programming (LP), mixed-integer programming (MIP), and vehicle routing problems (VRP) on NVIDIA GPUs, achieving competitive performance across diverse benchmarks. The team’s effort to open-source high-quality, industry-grade optimization code represents a major contribution to both the optimization community and the open-source ecosystem. cuOpt has already started a chain reaction in the optimization solver community toward innovating new accelerated algorithms, making GPUs a highly competitive platform for solving large-scale complex optimization problems. Its comprehensive documentation, educational examples, accessible codebase, and integration with other optimization software vendors make it remarkably easy to adopt — empowering researchers and practitioners to leverage GPU computing for modern optimization challenges.

Team members:

Anandh Brahmanya Anandh
Kumar Aatish
Nicolas Blin
Alice Boucher
Burcin Bozkaya
Akif Çördük
Joe Eaton
Alex Fender
Rajesh Gandham
Nicolas Lee Guidotti
Hugo Linsenmaier
Chris Maes
Preethi Maulik
Trevor McKay
Shankara Rao Thejaswi Nanditale
Ramakrishna Prabhu
Ishika Roy
Piotr Sielski