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Adds cuopt_client, a CPU-only library holding the host-side problem representation (parsers, data_model_view, mps_data_model, writers), the gRPC wire protocol, and the LP/MIP gRPC client. libcuopt and cuopt_grpc_server both link it, so there is one implementation rather than a client-side fork.

This is the library-level half of letting a remote client talk to cuopt_grpc_server without cudf, cupy, rmm or pylibraft. The packaging half is not here: libcuopt_client.so still ships inside the libcuopt package, which depends on CUDA, so a GPU-free install is not yet possible. Tracked in #1872.

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  • The routing gRPC arm stays in libcuopt. Its mappers call routing accessors that live in CUDA translation units, so moving it down would create a libcuopt -> cuopt_client -> libcuopt cycle.
  • Some public API changes which library exports it — solver_settings_t::get_mip_callbacks() and siblings now come from libcuopt_client.so. cuopt links cuopt::cuopt_client as PUBLIC and both are in cuopt-exports, so CMake consumers resolve them transitively; a bare -lcuopt link would also need -lcuopt_client.

Verified: libcuopt_client.so has no CUDA, rmm or raft in NEEDED, and no undefined cuopt:: symbols.

Last of four steps toward a CUDA-free client library, after #1801, #1802 and #1803.

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The build separates host-only sources from CUDA-backed sources, adds the CPU-only cuopt_client library, moves solver-settings compilation across host and CUDA translation units, links the client into core targets, and updates exports and packaging checks.

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CPU-only client library

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Host and CUDA source partitioning
cpp/CMakeLists.txt, cpp/src/...
Host-only utilities, parsers, solver settings, LP sources, and selected gRPC sources now populate CUOPT_CLIENT_SRC_FILES. CUDA-backed sources remain in the core source collections.
Solver-settings compilation split
cpp/src/math_optimization/solver_settings.cpp, cpp/src/math_optimization/solver_settings.cu, cpp/src/math_optimization/solver_settings_gpu.cu
CUDA translation units now define the constructor, parameter-table initialization, and device-facing methods. The host translation unit explicitly instantiates host-facing members for float and double settings.
Client target construction and integration
cpp/CMakeLists.txt, python/libcuopt/CMakeLists.txt
The configuration adds cuopt_client_objs and cuopt_client. Core targets, RPATH settings, and build and installation exports now include the client library.
Packaging checks
ci/build_wheel_cuopt.sh, conda/recipes/libcuopt/recipe.yaml
Wheel repair exclusions and package contents checks now include libcuopt_client.so.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 464ba

This change adds an installable CPU-only client library. Its exported consumer configuration may fail to compile where public headers require RMM/RAFT include paths; the packaging prefix-detection update is present.

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Update: two runtime bugs found by running the suite, both fixed

Building alone was not enough — running the tests surfaced two problems that ldd -r reports as clean, because it resolves against the full load set while these only bite at call time.

1. Routing gRPC arm created a library cycle. I had put it in cuopt_client on the grounds that its mappers contain no raft/rmm/thrust. True, but CUDA-free is not the same as dependency-free: they call routing::solver_settings_t and routing::assignment_t accessors that live in CUDA TUs, so libcuopt -> cuopt_client -> libcuopt. It showed up as HEURISTICS_HYPER_PARAMS_TEST dying with undefined symbol: routing::solver_settings_t::get_time_limit. The routing arm now stays in libcuopt until its host-only accessors are split out, exactly as was done for LP/MIP.

2. template class pulled the constructor into the CUDA-free TU. solver_settings.cpp used template class solver_settings_t<...>, which instantiates every member including the ctor — and the ctor builds a pdlp_solver_settings_t holding a pdlp_warm_start_data_t by value, whose ctor is CUDA-side. Members are now instantiated individually, and the ctor itself moved to solver_settings_gpu.cu.

This also corrects something I stated earlier in this PR: I described the leftover undefined symbols as a deferrable gap. They were not — any undefined symbol in libcuopt_client.so breaks at runtime for anything that loads it, which is every test binary.

undefined cuopt symbols : 0     (was 15)
NEEDED with cuda/rmm/raft : 0

Test results: 119/125 pass. The 6 failures (WAYPOINT_MATRIXTEST, INCUMBENT_CALLBACK_TEST, DOC_EXAMPLE_TEST, C_API_TEST, NUMOPT_INTERNAL_TEST, CLI_TEST) are not regressions — I built unmodified main (f63e4df9) in a separate worktree and it fails the identical six. They are missing downloaded datasets (square41.mps and friends, fetched by ci/test_cpp.sh via the download_*_test_dataset.sh scripts, which I did not run locally).

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Propagate RMM/RAFT requirements through cuopt::cuopt_client.

Installed public headers include RMM and RAFT headers and expose their types. cuopt_client uses $<TARGET_OBJECTS:cuopt_client_objs>, so the object target’s public requirements do not propagate. Add rmm::rmm and raft::raft to cuopt_client’s public interface, or remove these dependencies from the public headers.

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Add lib/libcuopt_client.so to prefix_detection.ignore.

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libcuopt_client.so is installed alongside libcuopt.so with the same
BUILD_RPATH/INSTALL_RPATH, and embeds the build prefix the same way
(15 occurrences locally, against 34 for libcuopt.so), so it needs the
same prefix_detection.ignore entry.

Also cuts the comment blocks around the cuopt_client target down to the
non-obvious parts: the routing cycle and the default-visibility choice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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Applied in ae24d75. Verified rather than taking it as given — libcuopt_client.so does embed the build prefix, same as libcuopt.so:

strings -a cpp/build/libcuopt.so        | grep -c "$PREFIX"   # 34
strings -a cpp/build/libcuopt_client.so | grep -c "$PREFIX"   # 15

Same BUILD_RPATH/INSTALL_RPATH "$ORIGIN" and same install rule, so it needed the same ignore entry.

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Review feedback. The previous diagram drew cuopt_grpc_server and libcuopt
as one box, which hid the fact that libcuopt.so is the shared foundation:
both the cuopt Python extension modules and cuopt_grpc_server link it, and
so does cuopt_cli. That convergence is the thing #1622 splits and #1804
carves from, so it should be visible.

libcuopt.so is now its own box with both link edges arriving at it, and the
gRPC arrow terminates at cuopt_grpc_server rather than trailing off toward
the library, which misrepresented what a gRPC client actually talks to.

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Review feedback: the _gpu suffix is redundant, since .cu already means the
translation unit is compiled as CUDA, and it also oversold the contents --
the constructor in there is pure host code.

This restores the original file name from before the host/device split, so
git blame stays continuous, and matches the pairing mip_heuristics already
uses (solver_settings.cpp alongside solver_settings.cu). The two files go to
different targets, cuopt_client_objs and cuopt_objs, so the object names
cannot collide.

Also rewrites the comment above the constructor. It sits at the line a
reviewer asked about, so it was not doing its job: it now names the exact
member that forces the placement, pdlp_warm_start_data_t and its nine
device_uvectors, and records what would let the constructor move to the host
translation unit.

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Moves the routing gRPC arm into `cuopt_client`, so the CUDA-free client library now covers VRP as well as LP/MIP.

The routing mappers were held back because they reached into the routing engine. Measuring that reach showed it was shallow — 14 symbols, all trivial host-only accessors that happen to live in CUDA translation units:

| Object | Routing-engine symbols needed |
|---|---|
| `grpc_routing_settings_mapper` | 8 — `routing::solver_settings_t` getters/setters |
| `grpc_routing_solution_mapper` | 6 — `routing::assignment_t` getters |
| `grpc_routing_problem_mapper` | 0 |
| `grpc_client_vrp` | 0 |
| `cython_grpc_client_vrp` | 0 |

The VRP client itself needed nothing from the engine.

Two changes free those 14:

- `routing/solver_settings.cu` becomes `.cpp`. The whole file was already host code — plain accessors over scalar members — and `routing/solver_settings.hpp` pulls in no CUDA.
- The six `assignment_t` accessors move to `assignment_accessors.cpp`, instantiated **per member** rather than with `template class`. A whole-class instantiation would also instantiate the device-facing members and pull CUDA back into the translation unit.

This is the same split #1801, #1802 and #1803 applied to the LP/MIP settings, and it is what #1804's own comment anticipated: *"Moving the routing arm down needs those host-only accessors split out first, exactly as was done for the LP/MIP settings."*

## Result

`libcuopt_client.so` grows from 2.3 MB to 2.4 MB stripped and keeps every property that makes it useful:

```
cuda / rmm / raft in NEEDED     0
undefined cuopt:: symbols       0
DT_NEEDED on any libcuopt       0
```

It now exports the 6 routing mappers and the VRP client methods, so a routing-only gRPC client no longer needs the routing engine. That is listed in #1635 as "the only part of the split with real C++ work behind it".

## Testing

- C++: `ROUTING_UNIT_TEST`, `GRPC_ROUTING_PROBLEM_MAPPER_TEST`, `GRPC_CLIENT_TEST`, `GRPC_PIPE_SERIALIZATION_TEST`, `GRPC_INTEGRATION_TEST`, `C_API_TEST` — 6/6 pass.
- Python: `test_routing_grpc_serialization.py` (13) and `test_routing_grpc_client.py` — pass. The two end-to-end VRP cases skip without a server, so they were run explicitly against a local `cuopt_grpc_server` (`CUOPT_GRPC_SERVER=localhost:19555`) and both pass: a VRP problem submitted over gRPC, solved, and mapped back through the code this PR moves.
- Verified the 14 accessors are still exported and that `assignment_t`'s device-facing members (`get_route`, `to_csv`, `get_arrival_stamp`, `print`) survived dropping the whole-class instantiation.

### Tests added

The routing gRPC arm had almost no C++ coverage: `GRPC_INTEGRATION_TEST` held no routing cases, and of the two mappers that read the moved accessors, neither had a test — only the problem mapper did, and it touches no accessors. This PR adds two.

**`DefaultServerTests.SolveVRP`** follows the same shape as the LP and MIP cases in that fixture — submit, poll, fetch, check — so routing is now exercised the same way. The problem is built in code rather than loaded from a fixture, so it does not depend on the routing datasets, and the assertions do not pin a route ordering, only that the solve succeeded and left no order unserved.

**`GRPC_ROUTING_SETTINGS_MAPPER_TEST`** round-trips `routing::solver_settings_t` through the proto. Six of its eight accessors previously had no test at all. It covers the presence semantics an end-to-end solve cannot see: an unset `time_limit` must not be serialized, since the solver derives its default from absence, while an explicit zero must survive.

Both were checked by mutation rather than assumed useful. Removing the `time_limit` presence guard leaves `SolveVRP` passing — it sets an explicit limit, so it never exercises that path — while the mapper test fails. The end-to-end test is the right primary but is not a superset of the mapper test.

Authors:
  - Ramakrishna Prabhu (https://github.com/ramakrishnap-nv)

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  - Rajesh Gandham (https://github.com/rg20)
  - Trevor McKay (https://github.com/tmckayus)

URL: #1884
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`to_optimization_problem()` was a pure virtual on
`optimization_problem_interface_t`, so it occupied a slot in **every**
implementer's vtable — including `cpu_optimization_problem_t`, whose
vtable then held an entry only `libcuopt` can define.

Vtable relocations resolve **eagerly at load time**, so this cannot be
deferred or hidden behind lazy binding: any library carrying that vtable
is unloadable without `libcuopt.so`. That blocks the CUDA-free client
library (NVIDIA#1804).

It is now a free function declared in `optimization_problem.hpp`,
defined in `cpu_optimization_problem_to_gpu.cpp`, dispatching on the
concrete type:

```diff
- auto gpu = problem->to_optimization_problem(&handle);
+ auto gpu = to_optimization_problem(*problem, &handle);
```

Semantics are unchanged — the GPU override was a one-line `return
nullptr`, so a GPU-backed problem still yields `nullptr`. Unrecognised
implementations now throw instead of returning `nullptr`, since the
documented fallback `static_cast`s the reference and would otherwise be
UB. 5 call sites updated.

**Breaking:** removes a pure virtual from an installed public header.
Out-of-tree implementers should delete their override; callers switch to
the free function as above.

2 of 4 toward a CUDA-free client library (NVIDIA#1801 merged, NVIDIA#1803, NVIDIA#1804
follow).

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---------

Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
chris-maes pushed a commit to chris-maes/cuopt that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
Adds `cuopt_client`, a CPU-only library holding the host-side problem representation (parsers, `data_model_view`, `mps_data_model`, writers), the gRPC wire protocol, and the LP/MIP gRPC client. `libcuopt` and `cuopt_grpc_server` both link it, so there is one implementation rather than a client-side fork.

This is the library-level half of letting a remote client talk to `cuopt_grpc_server` without `cudf`, `cupy`, `rmm` or `pylibraft`. The packaging half is not here: `libcuopt_client.so` still ships inside the `libcuopt` package, which depends on CUDA, so a GPU-free install is not yet possible. Tracked in NVIDIA#1872.

Two notes for reviewers:

- The routing gRPC arm stays in `libcuopt`. Its mappers call routing accessors that live in CUDA translation units, so moving it down would create a `libcuopt -> cuopt_client -> libcuopt` cycle.
- Some public API changes which library exports it — `solver_settings_t::get_mip_callbacks()` and siblings now come from `libcuopt_client.so`. `cuopt` links `cuopt::cuopt_client` as `PUBLIC` and both are in `cuopt-exports`, so CMake consumers resolve them transitively; a bare `-lcuopt` link would also need `-lcuopt_client`.

Verified: `libcuopt_client.so` has no CUDA, rmm or raft in `NEEDED`, and no undefined `cuopt::` symbols.

Last of four steps toward a CUDA-free client library, after NVIDIA#1801, NVIDIA#1802 and NVIDIA#1803.

Authors:
  - Ramakrishna Prabhu (https://github.com/ramakrishnap-nv)

Approvers:
  - Trevor McKay (https://github.com/tmckayus)
  - Rajesh Gandham (https://github.com/rg20)

URL: NVIDIA#1804
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