ILOG CPLEX 11.0 Getting Started > Introducing ILOG CPLEX > What Is ILOG CPLEX? > Using the Parallel Optimizers

Parallel Barrier, Parallel MIP, and Concurrent optimizers are implemented to run on hardware platforms with parallel processors. These parallel optimizers can be called from the Interactive Optimizer and the Component Libraries, if you application is licensed for parallel optimization.

When small models, such as those in this document, are being solved, the effect of parallelism will generally be negligible. On larger models, the effect is ordinarily beneficial to solution speed.

See Parallel Optimizers in the ILOG CPLEX User's Manual for information about using ILOG CPLEX on a parallel computer.