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First, get an IBM academic initiative membership by going [here|http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/page/membership].  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

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Next, we will download Cplex *12.5*.  Go [here|http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/jsps/assetredirector.jsp?asset_id=1070], 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:

{{IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio V12.5 Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly

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Note that instructions on the webpage are out of date, they tell you to search for version 12.4.
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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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