GAMS/GAMSPy and Snowflake walkthrough
Learn how to connect GAMS and GAMSPy with Snowflake to read model inputs, solve an optimization problem, and write results back to Snowflake.
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Navigating Trade-Offs: Introducing the GAMS Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) Framework
Learn how the GAMS Multi-Objective Optimization framework makes it easier to explore trade-offs between competing objectives and generate Pareto fronts without custom implementations.
Inside WITCH: Building and Scaling Climate-Economy Models with GAMS
WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid) is one of the world's leading Integrated Assessment Models, developed by researchers at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE). Over nearly two decades, it has …
Included Solvers for Free Licenses
See which solvers are included with free personal GAMS and GAMSPy licenses and which additional solvers are available to academic GAMSPy users.
Free GAMS and GAMSPy Licenses for Personal and Academic Use
Compare free personal and academic GAMS and GAMSPy licenses, understand their permitted uses and limits, and learn how to generate and install a license.
GAMS/GAMSPy and Databricks walkthrough
Moving data between environments is a relic of the past; with GAMS and GAMSPy, you can formulate and solve large-scale optimization models without ever duplicating data or leaving your secure environment. Databricks has become the central …
Expanding the Focus: Introducing the MIPfeas Benchmark
Update (October 2026): This update brings all solvers up to their latest versions and directly resolves a key concern regarding the MIPfeas benchmark: hardware discrepancies across runs. Moving forward, all solvers are evaluated on a …
Turning Solver Complexity into Solver Power: The GAMS Advantage
Mathematical optimization depends on solvers - yet using them effectively can be daunting. At GAMS, we turn solver complexity into solver power, providing both a unified modeling interface and deep, decades-long expertise in solver …
An Introduction to Modelling with GAMSPy
Workshop slides introducing GAMSPy modeling fundamentals, design concepts, Python workflows, solver access, and migration from GAMS to GAMSPy.
GPU-Accelerated Optimization with GAMS and NVIDIA cuOpt
For a long time, GPUs were essential for various AI applications and other high-performance compute applications but had limited impact on mathematical optimization. That’s changing.
Accelerating Carbon Storage Optimization with TotalEnergies
To support their carbon neutrality ambitions, the global energy company TotalEnergies developed a complex optimization model for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). This highly sophisticated model, capable of managing the complex CO2 …
APG: Optimizing Austria’s Energy Flow
The Austrian Power Grid (APG) partnered with our consulting team to optimize its electricity transmission model. As a result, model-solving time was slashed by over 60%, memory usage dropped by 80%, and various infeasibilities were …
Alpro: Optimizing Energy Management
Alpro, a European leader in plant-based food products, faced the challenge of optimizing its factory’s energy management. With the help of our consulting team, the company implemented two custom models and a graphical user interface, …
The Rhodium Climate Outlook
Rhodium Group is a renowned research organization specializing in comprehensive analysis of global trends. With a strong focus on energy, climate, and economic issues, they provide critical insights that inform decision-making at the …
GAMS Transfer R
GAMS Transfer R was first released with in August 2022 and has been included in all subsequent GAMS releases. Recently, we made GAMS Transfer R open-source and available on CRAN. In this blog post, we will provide a brief overview of GAMS …
Why Your Business Needs Optimization
This blog post discusses the necessity of business optimization through the Binary Paintshop Problem, illustrating how businesses can minimize resource usage and improve efficiency by adopting optimization strategies. Using a simple …
Cloud-based optimization of energy supply-demand networks and investment decisions
The EIP Energy Investment Planner© optimizes energy supply and demand networks and helps in evaluating investment decisions with an interactive web-based user interface
GDX source code published on GitHub
Over 23 years after its inception, the GDX library is now ported to C++17 and its source code freely available on GitHub. This implicitly documents the layout of the GDX file format and gives everyone the ability to build and maintain their …
Modern GAMS teaching - GAMS with GitHub Classroom
Are you ready to transform your GAMS modeling class with modern tools and streamline grading? In this blog post, our guest author Christophe Gouel from INRAE explains how he adjusted his workflow.
Supercharging GAMS models by linking to Artificial intelligence - Heuristic search and machine learning
GAMS is good at finding decision variable values that provide the optimal solution to a problem for a given set of scenario parameters. It is more difficult to find a strategy that can test combinations of potentially many parameters in an …
Progress in MINLP Solver Technology
MINLP solvers typically have a rooting in academia. This article highlights the historic performance gains of two of them, BARON and SCIP.
An Overview of Math Programming Solvers
Math programming solvers are the workhorses called upon by GAMS to produce optimal solutions to your mathematical models. This overview provides assistance when you are faced with selecting the correct solver for your particular model.
How to Tune CPLEX Options for TIMES models
A recent webinar by Evangelos Panos demonstrates how to tune CPLEX options to get more bang for your buck when running large problems such as the TIMES ESM framework.
Optimal Efficient Price Discovery in Dairy Trading Events
Global Dairy Trade trading event auctions are the leading global online marketplace for trading large volume dairy ingredients and for reference price discovery. The GDT Trading Events and GDT Pulse Auctions are powered by CRA’s Trading …
Allocating Out-of-Home Advertising Campaigns
VIOOH is a leading global digital out of home (OOH) marketplace. Launched in 2018 and with headquarters in London, VIOOH’s platform connects buyers and sellers in a premium marketplace, making OOH easily accessible.
Introducing: GAMS Transfer
Our new data-centric GAMS Transfer API allows convenient exchange of large data sets between GAMS and Matlab or Python, and uses the native data structures of those platforms. This Python example shows how easy it is to use GAMS Transfer.
Model Instances with more than 2³¹ Non-Zeros - Impact on Energy Systems Research
With GAMS 37, we now support the generation of model instances with more than 2³¹ non-zeros. We expect huge models to become more important in the future.
Modeling Transportation Carbon Intensity Targets for the EU with GAMS
The ICCT asked GAMS to develop, test. and run a partial equilibrium model of the transportation sector in the EU. Renewable fuel policy is complex, and the impacts of policy changes are not always intuitive. Quantitative modeling, as …
Transitioning of a Large Electricity Model into the Amazon Cloud
Stadtwerke München have recently lifted their computationally expensive GAMS model into the cloud. This white paper gives a high level overview of the techniques used and the benefits of a cloud deployment over a traditional on-premise …
Running large models on NEOS for free
GAMS and the packaged solvers impose restrictions with regards to the problem sizes that can be solved with a free demo or community license. For academic users, there is a free alternative to run large models: **NEOS server**.
USMA
At the United States Military Academy in West Point, all students must graduate in four years. Each student's daily activities are a carefully regimented balance of academic, military, and physical requirements. The ~4,500 enrolled cadets …
Dealing with Models that are Unbounded
Optimization problems occasionally yield unbounded solutions. To find the cause one can modify the model and solve it to gain information. This is done through the imposition of “artificially” large bounds. Linear programming solvers …
New and improved GAMS links for Pyomo and JuMP
We've got some new links from Pyomo and JuMP to GAMS, which allow efficient interfacing of GAMS with your Pyomo or JuMP models.
Optimizing Power Trading Auctions at 50 Hertz
Supported by several TSOs, the 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, TSO of Eastern Germany and part of the Elia group, manages an internet platform to collect bids and execute described auctions of balancing reserves. A GAMS model helps them match …
Analytik Jena
High Throughput Screening is a scientific experimentation method widely used in pharmaceutical research especially in the field of drug discovery. Because the large number of promising compounds for new drugs cannot be analyzed by manual …
Scaling
Learn how to diagnose and correct numerical scaling problems in GAMS models using scaling attributes, GAMSCHK, CONVERT, and solver diagnostics.
Misbehaving Model – Infeasible
Learn how to diagnose infeasible GAMS models by adding artificial variables, analyzing distorted marginals, and isolating conflicting equations and variable bounds.
DOE
The electricity generation sector in the U.S. is a major contributor of CO2 emissions. Thus emissions reductions from this sector will play a central role in any coordinated CO2 emission reduction effort aimed at combating climate change. …