nlopt

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NLopt is a free/open-source library for nonlinear optimization, providing a common interface for a number of different free optimization routines available online as well as original implementations of various other algorithms.

knitro

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[SPECIAL LICENSE REQUIRED: contact hpc-support@umich.edu] Knitro is an optimization software library for finding solutions of both continuous optimization models as well as discrete optimization models with integer or binary variables. Knitro is primarily designed for finding local optimal solutions of large sacle continuous nonlinear problems.

fdtd-solutions

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[SPECIAL LICENSE REQUIRED: contact hpc-support@umich.edu] Lumerical FDTD Solutions is a high performance 3D FDTD-method Maxwell solver for the design, analysis and optimization of nanophotonic devices, processes and materials.