A collection of official and user-contributed Dakota examples. The examples help bridge the gap between our other documentation and practical use. Types of examples include runnable Dakota studies, drivers to simulation tools such as MATLAB and Python, case studies, tutorials, and more.
Tour a few examples:
- Construct a driver for Dakota to run your simulation;
- Learn about Dakota's new multilevel and multifidelity sampling methods;
- Develop a driver or plot results using the Dakota GUI;
- Access results and evaluation data in Dakota's HDF5 format output file;
- Calibrate model parameters to experimental data
If you are internal to Sandia, we recommend accessing the Library directly on gitlab-ex. (https://gitlab-ex.sandia.gov/dakota/dakota-examples). Library content has been tailored to render correctly there, and any additions or changes we make to examples will be available immediately. On Gitlab, we recommend browsing the folder structure or using search to find what you are looking for.
Outside of Sandia, the Library currently is available only in Dakota source and binary
packages on our website. In source
packages, it is located in the dakota-examples folder. In binary packages, it is
locatedin share/dakota/examples/official. We plan to mirror the repository externally
in the very near future; to be notified, email dakota-announce@software.sandia.gov
and ask to be subscribed.
The Dakota GUI also is a convenient and powerful way to view and find examples. It includes a text-based search interface to quickly search for examples.
Examples are organized topically in a hierarchy of folders. Each example (and in some cases collection of examples) has a README, which is in markdown format. This document includes a description of the example and other details, such as how to run or use the example yourself.
Examples in the official folder were created or reviewd by Dakota project team members and are tested. contributed examples are those we believe may be useful but have received a lower level of vetting.
(Some of the other folders you may encounter, such as cmake, handle testing
and packaging and can be disregarded if you aren't a Dakota developer.)
If you've created an example that you feel may be of value to others, we invite you to submit it for inclusion in the Library. Please contact the user support mailing list, dakota-users@software.sandia.gov.