New benchmark farm for the engines

The IBM Decision Optimization engine teams are eager to try their new benchmarking toys: they just received delivery of 92 machines with 16 cores and 64 GB of RAM each. A $750k investment!

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With these machines, the CP Optimizer and CPLEX teams will double their benchmark throughput, allowing them to test twice as many ideas in the same amount of time. The benefits will be visible in 2017: brace yourself for unprecedented performance improvements!