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DAKOTA

Description

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This module lets you use the software DAKOTA. The DAKOTA (Design Analysis Kit for Optimization and Terascale Applications) toolkit provides a flexible, extensible interface between analysis codes and iterative systems analysis methods. DAKOTA contains algorithms for: * optimization with gradient and nongradient-based methods; * uncertainty quantification with sampling, reliability, stochastic expansion, and epistemic methods; * parameter estimation with nonlinear least squares methods; * and sensitivity/variance analysis with design of experiments and parameter study methods.

Environment Modules

Run module spider dakota to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_DAKOTA_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_DAKOTA_BIN - executable directory
  • HPC_DAKOTA_INC - header file directory
  • HPC_DAKOTA_LIB - library directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses DAKOTA you have to cite it as follows:

Please cite the Dakota User's Manual (or other appropriate manual) for the version you used (see SAND Reports). For example:

Adams, B.M., Bohnhoff, W.J., Dalbey, K.R., Ebeida, M.S., Eddy, J.P., Eldred, M.S., Hooper, R.W., Hough, P.D., Hu, K.T., Jakeman, J.D., Khalil, M., Maupin, K.A., Monschke, J.A., Ridgway, E.M., Rushdi, A.A., Seidl, D.T., Stephens, J.A., Swiler, L.P., and Winokur, J.G., "Dakota, A Multilevel Parallel Object-Oriented Framework for Design Optimization, Parameter Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Sensitivity Analysis: Version 6.15 User’s Manual," Sandia Technical Report SAND2020-12495, November 2021.

Previous versions of the User's Manual are available from the manuals page.

Categories

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