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Dakota:
A Multilevel Parallel Object-Oriented Framework for Design Optimization,
Parameter Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Sensitivity Analysis
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Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM
Livermore, CA
Brian M. Adams
William J. Bohnhoff
Robert A. Canfield
Wesley P. Coomber
Keith R. Dalbey
Mohamed S. Ebeida
John P. Eddy
Michael S. Eldred
Gianluca Geraci
Alex A. Gorodetsky
Russell W. Hooper
Patricia D. Hough
Kenneth T. Hu
John D. Jakeman
Carson Kent
Mohammad Khalil
Kathryn A. Maupin
Jason A. Monschke
Teresa Portone
Ernesto E. Prudencio
Elliott M. Ridgway
Pieterjan Robbe
Ahmad A. Rushdi
D. Thomas Seidl
J. Adam Stephens
Laura P. Swiler
Anh Tran
Dena M. Vigil
Gregory J. von Winckel
Timothy M. Wildey
Justin G. Winokur
Friedrich Menhorn, Technical University of Munich
Xiaoshu Zeng, University of Southern California
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License
Dakota is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. It
is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version. A copy of this license is included in
the LICENSE file, and is also available online from
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html. Also refer to the COPYRIGHT
file for important U.S. Government legal notices.
Dakota source and binary distributions include external libraries
which have compatible licensing terms. In particular, those in the
packages/ directory are available separately under the following
licenses. These packages may in turn include packages under other
licenses; see their contents for the most up to date details. Here
[SNL] denotes software originating at Sandia National Laboratories.
dakota GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) [SNL]
(including any source, test, unit_test, example,
script, build system, or other files not
specifically marked)
acro Revised BSD License [SNL]
(including colin, dummy, interfaces, pebbl, scolib, utilib)
tpl
ampl MIT License (old style with disclaimer)
3po/cobyla MIT License (modern style with sublicense)
3po/hooke MIT License (variant)
cxxtest GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
momhlib GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
tinyxml ZLib license
vpykit/pyutilib.virtualenv BSD License
ampl MIT License (old style with disclaimer)
approxnn GNU Lesser General Public License(LGPL)
C3 BSD 3-clause
CONMIN Public Domain
DDACE GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) [SNL]
demo_tpl Dakota's LGPL
dfftpack Public Domain
DOT Commercial license (optional add-on)
dream GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
eigen3 MPL2 (cf http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0)
*** Dakota enables the -DEIGEN_MPL2_ONLY compiler flag to
avoid bringing in additional eigen TPLs having potentially
different license restrictions.
fftw GNU General Public License (GPL; disabled by default)
FSUDace GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
hopspack GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) [SNL]
CDDLIB GNU General Public License (GPL; disabled by default)
JEGA GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) [SNL]
LHS GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) [SNL]
MUQ2 BSD 3-clause
NCSUOpt MIT License
nidr BSD License [SNL]
NL2SOL Publicly Available
NLPQL Commercial license (optional add-on)
NOMAD GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
(S)NOWPAC MIT License
NPSOL Commercial license (optional add-on)
OPTPP GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) [SNL]
pecos GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) [SNL]
PSUADE GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
pybind11 BSD 3-clause
pyprepro MIT License [SNL]
bottlepy/bottle MIT License (modern style with sublicense)
pypi/six MIT License (modern style with sublicense)
queso GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
sciplot GNU Library General Public License (old LGPL)
surfpack GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) [SNL]
trilinos (rol, teuchos) BSD License [SNL]
VPISparseGrid GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
The commerically licensed packages are not distributed with public
versions of Dakota. To use one of them with Dakota, obtain the source
code under an appropriate license and include it under the appropriate
packages directory when compiling Dakota.
Third-party system libraries: In addition to standard compiler and
system runtime libraries, Dakota uses the following external
third-party libraries for compilation and operation. These are
included in Dakota binary distributions (though not in source
distributions):
BLAS/LAPACK BSD License, or that of compiler or system-provided libs
Boost Boost Software License
HDF5 (optional) BSD-style Open Source License (variant)
zlib ZLib License
GPL/Other: Dakota may optionally depend on GNU GPL-licensed components,
which are disabled by default, resulting in an LGPL-compatible Dakota.
Optional GPL capabilities include:
* packages/external/hopspack/src/src-citizens/citizen-gss/cddlib/:
enable with CMake setting HAVE_CDDLIB.
* packages/external/fftw: optionally included with Dakota; enable
with CMake setting HAVE_FFTW
* GNU Scientific Library: external third-party library; enable with
CMake setting DAKOTA_HAVE_GSL and pointer to gsl-config
* cURL/libcurl: external third-party library, MIT/modified-BSD
license, but its dependencies have numerous licenses that make it
challenging to redistribute. Redistributed Dakota binaries never
include libcurl.
Utilities required to compile and deploy Dakota and its documentation
are not included here. These may include compilers, MPI, system
runtimes, Doxygen, LaTeX, Sphinx, CMake, etc.
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Overview
The Dakota toolkit provides a flexible, extensible interface between analysis
codes and iteration 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 capabilities. These
capabilities may be used on their own or as components within advanced
strategies such as surrogate-based optimization, mixed integer nonlinear
programming, or optimization under uncertainty.
Refer to http://dakota.sandia.gov/ for additional information,
including support contacts.
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Distributions
Dakota is distributed in binary (executable/library) and source code
formats. Recommendations for getting started with either format can
be found in INSTALL included with the distribution, but the most up to
date guidance can be found alongside downloads on the Dakota website.
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Platforms
Dakota operates on most systems running Unix or Linux operating
systems as well as on Windows (with or without the help of a Cygwin
emulation layer). Dakota is developed and most extensively tested on
Redhat Enterprise Linux with GNU compilers, but additional operating
systems / compiler combinations are regularly tested as well. See the
Dakota website for more information on supported platforms for
particular Dakota versions.
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Versions
Versions of the Dakota software have been tagged as follows:
6.19 11/15/23 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.18 05/15/23 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.17 11/15/22 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.16 05/16/22 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.15 11/15/21 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.14 05/17/21 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.13 11/16/20 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.12 05/15/20 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.11 11/15/19 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.10 05/15/19 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.9 11/15/18 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.8 05/15/18 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.7 11/15/17 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.6 05/15/17 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.5 11/16/16 (refer to git submodules for TPL SHA1s)
6.4 05/16/16 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
6.3 11/16/15 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
6.2 05/15/15 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
6.1 11/15/14 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
6.0 05/15/14 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
5.4 11/15/13 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
5.3.1 05/15/13 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
5.3 01/31/13 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
5.2 11/30/11 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
5.1 12/21/10 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
Version_5_0 12/21/09 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
Version_4_2 11/05/08 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
Version_4_1 9/21/07 (refer to svn externals for TPL tags)
Version_4_0 5/12/06 (acro-coliny, opt++, DDace, and Surfpack tagged
Dakota_Version_4_0 4/28/06)
Version-3-3 12/23/04 (acro-pub-coliny tagged Dakota_Version_3_3 12/23/04)
Version-3-2 7/21/04 (acro-pub-coliny tagged Dakota_Version_3_2 7/21/04)
Version-3-1-2 7/09/03 (uses Dakota_Version_3_1 of sgopt/pico/utilib)
Version-3-1-1 5/21/03 (uses Dakota_Version_3_1 of sgopt/pico/utilib)
Version-3-1 4/04/03 (sgopt/pico/utilib tagged Dakota_Version_3_1
4/04/03)
Version-3-0 3/30/02 (sgopt/pico/utilib tagged Dakota_Version_3_0
3/30/02)
Version-3-0-beta 11/30/01 (sgopt/utilib tagged Dakota_Version_3_0_beta
11/30/01; pico: use cvs-p co -r osi -D 11/30/01)
Version-2-1-preansi 9/17/01 (last non-ANSI; same sgopt/utilib/pico as below)
Version-2-1 7/09/01 (sgopt/utilib/pico tagged Dakota_Version_2_1
6/22/01)
Version-2-0 3/14/00 (sgopt/utilib/pico tagged Dakota_Version_2_0 3/7/00)
Version-1-1 4/15/99
Version-1-0 2/18/99
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Contributing enhancements.
Dakota is both a research and a production code and is under active
development. Bug reports, suggestions for improvement, and changes to
support other platforms/compilers are welcome. See the Dakota
website at https://dakota.sandia.gov/ for more information.
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