Building DAKOTA - Revision history

Jpye at 08:34, 6 August 2019

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	-DDAKOTA_PYTHON=ON		-DDAKOTA_PYTHON=ON
	</source>		</source>

			It is possible to use Dakota in a 'sandwich' configuration, eg your program calls Dakota, which makes multiple evaluation calls back to a subroutine in your program again. We are working to figure out an example of how to do that firstly in Python.

	== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==		== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==

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	You can add the 'export' line to your <tt>~/.profile</tt> if you want it to be available automatically in future login sessions.		You can add the 'export' line to your <tt>~/.profile</tt> if you want it to be available automatically in future login sessions.

			If you want to be able to run optimisations of Python-based codes, you can use the 'black box' option (system call), or you can turn on the Python 'analysis driver', by adding the following to your <tt>cmake</tt> command line:

			<source lang=sh>
			-DDAKOTA_PYTHON=ON
			</source>

	== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==		== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==

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	[https://dakota.sandia.gov DAKOTA] (Design Analysis Kit for Optimisation and Terascale Applications) is an optimisation toolkit that we are evaluating as a wrapper for ASCEND simulations, to optimise complex systems. Note that Dakota is in no way a dependency or requirement for running ASCEND.		[https://dakota.sandia.gov DAKOTA] (Design Analysis Kit for Optimisation and Terascale Applications) is an optimisation toolkit that we are evaluating as a wrapper for ASCEND as well as other simulations (eg [[Building Solstice\|Solstice]]), to optimise complex systems. Note that Dakota is in no way a dependency or requirement for running ASCEND.

	Since the documentation of Dakota is not updated to Ubuntu 18.04, we have prepared the following concise instructions for getting it up and running on that distro:		Since the documentation of Dakota is not updated to Ubuntu 18.04, we have prepared the following concise instructions for getting it up and running on that distro:

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	[https://dakota.sandia.gov ~~Dakota~~] is an optimisation toolkit that we are evaluating as a wrapper for ASCEND simulations, to optimise complex systems. Note that Dakota is in no way a dependency or requirement for running ASCEND.		[https://dakota.sandia.gov DAKOTA] (Design Analysis Kit for Optimisation and Terascale Applications) is an optimisation toolkit that we are evaluating as a wrapper for ASCEND simulations, to optimise complex systems. Note that Dakota is in no way a dependency or requirement for running ASCEND.

	Since the documentation of Dakota is not updated to Ubuntu 18.04, we have prepared the following concise instructions for getting it up and running on that distro:		Since the documentation of Dakota is not updated to Ubuntu 18.04, we have prepared the following concise instructions for getting it up and running on that distro:

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	== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==		== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==

	Dakota 6.9 built using the same steps as above (for 6.10 on Ubuntu 18.04) results in the following error. The error is resolved by updating to Dakota version 6.10, or else adding <tt>#include <cmath></tt> at the top of the file <tt>packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/include<JEGAConfig.hpp</tt>.		Dakota 6.9 built using the same steps as above (for 6.10 on Ubuntu 18.04) results in the following error. The error is resolved by updating to Dakota version 6.10, or else reportedly by adding <tt>#include <cmath></tt> at the top of the file <tt>packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/include<JEGAConfig.hpp</tt>.

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	== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==		== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==

	Dakota 6.9 built using the same steps as above (for 6.10 on Ubuntu 18.04) results in the following error. The error is resolved by updating to 6.10.s		Dakota 6.9 built using the same steps as above (for 6.10 on Ubuntu 18.04) results in the following error. The error is resolved by updating to Dakota version 6.10, or else adding <tt>#include <cmath></tt> at the top of the file <tt>packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/include<JEGAConfig.hpp</tt>.

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Dakota 6.10 on Ubuntu 18.04

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	mkdir build && cd build		mkdir build && cd build
	cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/john/.local ..		cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/john/.local ..
	# you can use 'make -j8' to go faster...		# you can use 'make -j8' to go faster, if you have more CPUs than my laptop...
	make -j4		make -j4
	cd test && ctest -j 8 -L Accept		cd test && ctest -j 4 -L Accept
	</source>		</source>

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	These steps result in all tests passing.		These steps result in all tests passing.

	Note that you have to explicitly write out your installation path in the 'cmake' line, hence <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/john/.local</tt>. If you write <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local</tt> or <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local</tt>, it doesn't work. This seems like a bug. Assuming you've done this, you can then install dakota using		Note that you have to explicitly write out your installation path in the <tt>cmake</tt> line, hence <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/john/.local</tt>. If you write <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local</tt> or <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local</tt>, it doesn't work. This seems like a bug. Assuming you've done this, you can then install dakota using

	<source lang=sh>		<source lang=sh>

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	# build		# build
	mkdir build && cd build		mkdir build && cd build
	cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~~$HOME~~/.local ..		cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/john/.local ..
	# you can use 'make -j8' to go faster...		# you can use 'make -j8' to go faster...
	make -j4		make -j4
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	</source>		</source>

	These steps result in all tests passing. ~~However~~ '~~make install~~' ~~doesn't result in any files being placed in~~ <tt>~/.local~~/bin~~</tt>, ~~although~~ it ''~~does'' result in files in~~ <tt>~/.local/~~share~~/dakota</tt>. ~~Not sure what is wrong there~~.		These steps result in all tests passing.

			Note that you have to explicitly write out your installation path in the 'cmake' line, hence <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/john/.local</tt>. If you write <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local</tt> or <tt>-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local</tt>, it doesn't work. This seems like a bug. Assuming you've done this, you can then install dakota using

			<source lang=sh>
			make install
			export PATH=~/.local:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.local/lib:$LD_LIBRARYPATH
			dakota --help
			</source>

			You can add the 'export' line to your <tt>~/.profile</tt> if you want it to be available automatically in future login sessions.

	== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==		== Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 ==