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Route Optimization
Achieve world-record accuracy and performance to solve complex problems, save time, and reduce costs and carbon footprints.
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NVIDIA® cuOpt™ optimizes operations by enabling better, faster decisions with accelerated computing. cuOpt helps teams solve complex routing problems with multiple constraints and delivers new capabilities such as dynamic rerouting, horizontal load-balancing, and robotic simulations, with subsecond solver response times. With 23 world-record benchmarks, cuOpt owns all of the world records on the largest routing benchmarks from the past three years.
Learn how cuOpt has evolved from a GPU-accelerated library to an AI cloud API, enabling recent advances in large language model (LLM) and linear programming.
cuOpt uses GPU-accelerated logistics solvers relying on heuristics, metaheuristics, and optimizations to calculate complex vehicle routing problems with a wide range of constraints. cuOpt can be deployed in any data center or cloud. With support for distance and time matrices with asymmetric patterns, it can be seamlessly integrated with popular map engines.
Rerun models and adjust for changes like inoperable vehicles, traffic and weather disruptions, and the addition of new orders—all within service-level agreement (SLA) time constraints.
Experience world-record performance, achieved across Li & Lim and Gehring & Homberger accuracy benchmarks.
Scale out to 15,000 routing tasks to facilitate computationally heavy use cases.
Route 1,000 packages in 10 seconds instead of 20 minutes (120X faster) with the same level of accuracy.
Achieve a 15 percent reduction in travel times and fuel costs, an 87 percent decrease in cloud resource costs, reductions in data center usage
Access a secure, production-ready microservice, as part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise, designed to deploy anywhere and accelerate time to value.
cuOpt—which owns all 23 world records set in the past three years on the largest routing benchmarks—is now available.
Use Cases
See how NVIDIA cuOpt supports industry use cases and jump-start your AI development with curated examples.
Fleets of trucks are dispatched from distribution centers to deliver orders to stores and end customer addresses. cuOpt reduces miles driven and accelerates delivery times with the same level of accuracy.
A service provider is dispatched to fulfill a list of different service requests. These are allocated a certain amount of time per service request and the time can vary according to request. For example, a telecommunications technician is assigned to a customer’s home to install a router and then to a different home to install a data cable. cuOpt enables technicians to be equipped with all required tools before departure and complete the tasks based on optimized routes.
For the inbound and outbound transportation of goods and vehicles with long-haul fleets, it’s critical to optimize scheduling and route planning. cuOpt allows users to factor in the number of available pilots, drivers, or ships to recommend the most optimized route and schedule.
Efficient picking and packing play a large role in warehouse operations and meeting customer expectations. With cuOpt, companies can create better human-machine interactions for automated storage and retrieval, dynamically routing and rerouting robots for efficient truck loading as new orders arrive and old orders are returned.
The retail, energy, and manufacturing industries can benefit from cuOpt for long-haul transportation management, pick-up path optimization within a warehouse from receiving dock to shipping dock, return optimization, and auto-fulfillment optimization.
A vehicle fulfills orders by picking them up and dropping them off at a different location. For example, a food delivery driver picks up a food order from a restaurant and delivers it to the customer’s home address. cuOpt allows users to tune and set their own solver time, independent of the number of tasks or locations. It optimizes routes with acceptable solution quality in seconds.
Use the right tools and technologies to take logistics optimization projects from development to production.
Experience cuOpt through a UI-based portal for exploring and prototyping with NVIDIA-managed endpoints, available for free through NVIDIA's API catalog.
Access NVIDIA-hosted infrastructure and guided hands-on labs that include step-by-step instructions and examples, available for free on NVIDIA LaunchPad.
Get a free license to try NVIDIA AI Enterprise in production for 90 days using your existing infrastructure.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a manufacturing company that’s been building large machinery for more than a hundred years. With NVIDIA cuOpt and Jetson Orin™, Kawasaki transformed its track maintenance and inspection capabilities.
In this self-paced course from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, you’ll work through a common vehicle routing optimization problem and learn how to preprocess input data for use by cuOpt, composing variants of the problem that reflect real-world business constraints.
Have an accelerated optimization project? Get access to the route optimization workflow with a free curated lab in NVIDIA LaunchPad, which includes a step-by-step guide and ready-to-use software, sample data, and applications.
In this hands-on lab, learn how to use the NVIDIA cuOpt cloud service to find the most optimal routes for a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles making deliveries, pickups, dispatching jobs, and more.
Find out how organizations are driving greater efficiency, saving money, and boosting revenue and customer satisfaction with real-time route optimization.
Learn how, with NVIDIA Metropolis, Omniverse™, cuOpt, and Isaac™ for robot perception, it’s possible to create an end-to-end strategy for fully automating logistically complex co-bot spaces.
Watch how organizations can overcome operations complexities and deliver AI factories at extraordinary scale with an AI planner built with LLM NIMs, NVIDIA NeMo Retriever NIMs, and a cuOpt NIM.
Next Steps
Explore everything you need to start developing with NVIDIA cuOpt, including the latest documentation, tutorials, technical blogs, and more.
Talk to an NVIDIA product specialist about moving from pilot to production with the security, API stability, and support of NVIDIA AI Enterprise.