Dakota

What is Dakota?

Dakota is a "[a] Multilevel Parallel Object-Oriented Framework for Design Optimization, 5 Parameter Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Sensitivity Analysis" tool (Dakota README).

How is Dakota loaded?

The below can be used to view all of the installations of Dakota on a particular system, where this example uses Coeus.

$ module avail |& grep -i "dakota"

Math/dakota/openmpi-2.0/gcc-7.2.0

How is Dakota invoked?

To invoke Dakota's binary, use the below.

$ module load Math/dakota/openmpi-2.0/gcc-7.2.0

$ dakota