CVX Installation Instruction

CVX is Matlab-based modelling language, primarily for constructing and solving convex optimization problems. (See http://cvxr.com/cvx/ for more details.) Although installing CVX is fairly straightforward, this page summarizes the key steps. If you come across any problems or issues, please see

Installing Matlab

Matlab is available for free for current students at MIT from IS&T.  Please follow the installation instructions from IS&T that can be found \[here \| http://web.mit.edu/student-matlab/\].  If you've never used MATLAB before, there are some beginner tutorials and other \[info \| http://web.mit.edu/matlab/www/\].

Installing CVX

Connecting CVX to Gurobi

Questions, Comments and Common Problems

If you come across an error in these installation instructions, please

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2. If you are certain about the correction, please edit this Wiki document appropriately. Remember to include all pertinent details including any OS or version info.
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