Announcing Dakota version 6.24 Dakota 6.24 is officially available for download. Highlight: Sensitivity Analysis Section A new section that describes Dakota’s sensitivity analysis capabilities has been added to the User Manual. Enabling / A…
The Dakota project delivers both state-of-the-art research and robust, usable software for optimization and UQ. Broadly, the Dakota software’s advanced parametric analyses enable design exploration, model calibration, risk analysis, and qua…
The Dakota project delivers both state-of-the-art research and robust, usable software for optimization and UQ. Broadly, the Dakota software’s advanced parametric analyses enable design exploration, model calibration, risk analysis, and qua…
Dakota 6.23 is officially available for download. Version 6.23 includes improved support for computing statistics from imported samples. The import_points method reads samples from a tabular file and computes moments, correlation coefficien…
Dakota 6.21 is officially available for download. The multilevel best linear unbiased estimator (ML BLUE) now uses truncated SVD for all matrix solutions (previously handled by Cholesky factorization with equilibration), enabling more robus…
The Dakota team is organizing a minisymposium at the upcoming 17th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, which will be held in Albuquerque, NM during the week of July 23-27, 2023. Driven by Sandia National Laboratories’ applica…
The Dakota team is excited to announce that user support has moved to GitHub Discussions. The dakota-users listserv is now officially retired. Although dakota-users has served our community well over the years, GitHub Discussions has numero…
Dakota 6.17 includes a beta version of a new Sphinx-based integrated user manual. It aggregates content from the historical User’s, Theory, and Reference manuals, as well as the Dakota website. Feedback on this new compendium is invited. En…
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Potential contributors to Dakota should review the information on Feature Additions regarding means and terms of contribution. Individuals who have contributed directly to Dakota’s core since its inception in 1993, including source, example…
The Dakota project delivers both state-of-the-art research and robust, usable software for optimization and UQ. Broadly, the Dakota software’s advanced parametric analyses enable design exploration, model calibration, risk analysis, and qua…
There is no video for the Overview section Dakota training was offered in 2015-2016. Video recordings, slides, and other materials from the training are offered here. Although the information is dated in some ways, we believe it remains hig…