Dakota Reference Manual Documentation

The Dakota (Design Analysis Kit for Optimization and Terascale Applications) toolkit provides a flexible, extensible interface between analysis codes and iteration methods.

Author

Brian M. Adams, Lara E. Bauman, William J. Bohnhoff, Keith R. Dalbey, John P. Eddy, Mohamed S. Ebeida, Michael S. Eldred, Patricia D. Hough, Kenneth T. Hu, John D. Jakeman, Laura P. Swiler, J. Adam Stephens, Dena M. Vigil, Timothy M. Wildey

The Reference Manual documents all the input keywords that can appear in a Dakota input file to configure a Dakota study. Its organization closely mirrors the structure of dakota.input.summary. For more information see Dakota Input Specification. For information on software structure, refer to the Developers Manual [3], and for a tour of Dakota features and capabilities, including a tutorial, refer to the User's Manual (Adams et al., 2010) [4].

How to Use this Manual

• To learn how to run Dakota from the command line, see Running Dakota
• To learn to how to restart Dakota studies, see Restarting Dakota Studies
• To learn about the Dakota restart utility, see The Dakota Restart Utility

To find more information about a specific keyword

1. Use the search box at the top right (currently only finds keyword names)
2. Browse the Keywords tree on the left navigation pane
3. Look at the Dakota Input Specification
4. Navigate through the keyword pages, starting from the Keywords Area

To find more information about a Dakota related topic

1. Browse the Topics Area on the left navigation pane
2. Navigate through the topics pages, starting from the Topics Area

A bibliography for the Reference Manual is provided in Bibliographic References