First, get an IBM academic initiative membership by going here. If you don't have an account, click any of the links that say Join now, then apply as a faculty. If you already have an account but you haven't used it in a year, you can just click renew below the Join now on the right hand side of the page instead. You will need to create an IBM ID and then fill out some forms. Save your IBM log in information as you will need it every time you want to download Cplex. This will not be the last time Next, we will download Cplex 12.5. Go here, click the link to the software download catalog in the second bullet point, then in the first search bar (find by search text) paste the following: Warning Note that instructions on the webpage are out of date, they tell you to search for version 12.4. There will only be one result, the query itself. For the download method, first try and select the download director (if you can't get this to work, you can use http transfer instead).
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